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Posted 1/1/2015 5:17 AM (GMT 0)
I have been feeling pretty good and haven't even caught a cold this season (knock on wood). So I was very surprised to find an outbreak on my lip this morning, it's barely noticeable. I was diagnosed with HSV I (or II I can't remember). Anyway, why would this happen? I feel like my lyme symptoms are almost gone and I don't feel runned down or anything. I thought my immune system was good enough to keep the virus at bay??

Happy new year!
Posted 1/1/2015 5:41 AM (GMT 0)
Oh OUCH! I hate those! All I can say is that your body is under some kind of stress. Otherwise you're right, your immune system would have kept it under control. Any time I feel one coming on, I always use L-lysine. I've used 1,000 mgs, 3 times a day (3,000 mgs/day) for 4 weeks, then begin lowering the dose each week until I was off of it, and it's worked well each time.

I've seen a study on this before and could see if I could locate it, if you would like.

I hope you find what works for you quickly. I know they can sometimes be quite painful.
Posted 1/1/2015 6:33 PM (GMT 0)
Happy new year! Glad you have been feeling better! I think most people have some type of HSV. I would get lesions if I had a mild food allergy or like Trav said - stress. Your body will heal! It just takes time. I haven't (knock on wood) had a canker sore in...jeez, probably 7 months or so, and when I did it was from eating too much sugar. I used to get them monthly.
Posted 1/1/2015 6:45 PM (GMT 0)
The statistics for HSV are shocking—70% of people have the virus. If you had chicken pox as a child you have it. And some present with problems with it and some don't. Stress exacerbates it but also, if your immune system is too overwhelmed, that contributes as well—just like T and others mention.

This is why I feel it's so important for people to treat for a viral load before they start lyme & co. treatment—or at least test for it if they can afford it. My LLMD wisely tested me for 6 different viruses—I had high titers for 4 of them (plus a high fungal load). Had we also started lyme & co. treatment while my immune system was so overloaded I might not be here…

I agree w/ T, L-lysine does work great! I'm SO GLAD you're not feeling run down (although often my breakouts would hit me first, then the floor would drop out beneath me a couple days later and then it was too late—I was down and out for weeks). Hopefully your immune system is fighting. ;)

-p
Posted 1/1/2015 7:50 PM (GMT 0)
Actually, from what I've seen, the viral loads rise and fall throughout treatments, so while I agree with P about testing for viral loads in the beginning, I would say that we need to be highly aware that they could rise to high enough levels during treatment to interfere with our healing again.

And while HSV number may be surprising, the numbers for EBV are even higher. Some sites say the infection rate is at around 9 out of every 10 people, others say 95 - 97% of the American public have antibodies to the virus. So these viruses are very common, but because our immune systems are trying to tackle these tick-borne infections, it doesn't have the energy to tackle viruses as well - so viruses can flourish.
Posted 1/2/2015 4:07 AM (GMT 0)
Wow! All great info. Yeah, right now it's a tiny canker sore. I just get paranoid, because im starting to feel good so something like this makes me think, oh gosh what if itd coming back! I remember getting a ton in my mouth about a month before I started with the tingling and numbness. but at that time I was feeling pretty run down. I had a pretty go New Years day...canker sore and all.

As always thank you all for the input.
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