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Posted 25 April 2012
Cold Sore Machine at Lloyds Pharmacy for £13.49 with code "FREE40"(thanks to choc1969)
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My cold sore machine which I have had for the last five years recently broke on me. This has been a godsend for me since I got it so when it gave up I started to search for another one.
My wife took my son to the docs today and when in Lloyds Pharmacy saw they had an offer on for these. However, they were £10 more expensive in the shops but still a fairly good price. Decided to check it online because the other half sometimes gets it wrong and the price online was even better!
If you get cold sores and like me, feel like your looking like the elephant man I would absolutely 100% recommend them. They don't stop mine but when they appear they only last about half as long and they instantly take 95% of the pain away.
My wife took my son to the docs today and when in Lloyds Pharmacy saw they had an offer on for these. However, they were £10 more expensive in the shops but still a fairly good price. Decided to check it online because the other half sometimes gets it wrong and the price online was even better!
If you get cold sores and like me, feel like your looking like the elephant man I would absolutely 100% recommend them. They don't stop mine but when they appear they only last about half as long and they instantly take 95% of the pain away.
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sorted byAnd before you start on me, do a bit of research (_;)
Shouldn't you 2 be at school??? or is it IT classes this morning:p
Everyone doesn't have it. (Hookers and old people)
You have it for life its a type herpes virus with oubreaks occurring every now and then. No machine will stop that.
Just a LED and a battery in a box?
Quite apt really, cos it was probably a trip to the red light that caused them..lol
Many chain budget stores that sell toiletries, stock much cheaper generic versions with exactly the same active ingredient as Zovirax for less than £2 a tube.
This machine is a scam a bit like the foot pads that people buy after seeing adverts on TV or in newspapers that supposedly improve circulation.
I think of it as a form of financial darwinsim. The thickos lose all their money to these scams.
The only thing that works for cold sores which are due to viruses are antivirals such as aciclovir (trade name zovirax). I'm amazed someone got one of these on prescription. They've essentially robbed our taxes to buy a piece of plastic. I hope they feel ashamed and the doctor who prescribed it clearly needs retraining.
If necessary you can get acicilovir as a tablet which is more efective than the cream or if you get recurrent outbreaks you can take them prophylactically. There are other antivirals available too.
If you don't believe me, I happen to have a bottle of snake oil for sale for $100,000 that will make you win the lottery. Just PM me...
Not everyone has it, you have to actually catch it first.
Here's what I do and I don't recommend this to anyone...
Soon as I get the tingle put the kettle on and boil up a cup of water. Let water cool for maybe a minute and then take a facecloth and dip a corner in the very hot water, then apply hot facecloth corner to the tingle area. This bit has to hurt to do any good and I mean hurt. Once cloth has cooled dip it in the water again and apply to face again. If I'm not letting out a scream it's not hot enough. Do this for a few minutes but always making sure you just touch the affected area with the cloth. At the end the tingle area is looking a bit angry but the tingle will have almost gone. Later that day do it again. The blisters still come but the attack is much reduced and all cleared up in about 5 or 6 days.
Why are you shouting?
• Herpes Simplex virus is contagious and is passed skin to skin or skin to object to skin.
• A cold sore appears from too much sun, exposed chapped lips, being run down, being hung-over, damaging your lips a scratch or cut or sometimes just because you have naturally low resistance to the virus.
• It’s as easy to get the virus as it is to visit a cafe or pub and drink from a poorly sanitised cup or glass but you're much more likely to get cold sores from physical contact.
• The virus can be passed from lips to genitals. Do not 69 anyone with a cold sore, it will be the most painful and embarrassing visit to your doctor yet.
• Aggravating a cold sore in anyway will cause a spread of the infection, don't burn, freeze, scratch or anything similar.
• The water inside a cold sore blister contains the virus, if you pop the blister dry your lip thoroughly (acetone is ideal) and use compeed patches to stop the virus spreading.
• Acyclovir cream (Zovirax) will not make your cold sores worse, it might shorten the outbreak and is more effective than other creams which usually only provide pain relief.
• Lysine can help reduce the number blisters and the severity of an outbreak.
The best thing to do with a cold sore is as soon as you feel an itch apply acyclovir cream, as soon as you notice a blister place a compeed patch on it and leave the patch completely in place for at least 24hours ideally 48 and I guarantee your cold sores will be smaller, less noticeable , do less damage to your lips and your outbreak will be much shorter.
Because he is in Scotland, its further away, doh!
Thats garbage, it can't be passed from an object, see here:
herpes.org.uk/col…tml
"Sativex is manufactured by GW Pharmaceuticals" ...who happen to be owned by Bayer..........who happened to develop Zyclon B
Please note that these machines do NOTHING to the coldsore itself. the light (narrow band/ red or whatever it is) helps promote your immune system around the coldsore and tells it to attack the virus. this helps speed up healing time and if done early enough can help prevent the outbreak even happening.
I also take L-Lysine tablets daily. I get them for about £5.50 a month from Amazon and take 2 of them every morning. I have also cut chocolate and nuts completely out of my diet. these are high in arginine. Whilst arginine is good for you they also help the herpes virus to reproduce and thats what causes the outbreak (whereas when your body has high lysine content it takes over the arginine and the herpes virus can't reproduce in lysine).
I started doing all this in January after I had 2 huge coldsores on my face (nose and bottom lip). So far I have had 1 little outbreak which only looked like a little pimple on my lip back in February and since then I have never had another coldsore.
Certain things you eat can help promote the virus to appear so thing about what you are eating and possibly cut down. Also L-Lysine will help (if not taken daily take huge doses when the virus does raise its ugly head). Large doses of lysine is safe as certain foods have huge doses (such as certain types of fish) so you wont do any damage.
Well I think i have rambled on enough. Good luck
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I've been coldsore free for months by taking Lysine daily and slightly changing my diet. Before that I was plagued by them constantly so for me Lysine works!!! If it doen't work for you then it doesn't work but for me it does!
I have a nightmare with cold sores and only just recovering from one as I type this
Works really well for me. A few of my friends got one after me and they also swear by them. Should just say that in some places you can get them on prescription. A friend of mine in Bristol was able to but my PCT in Bath refused.
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I don't seem to get many skin problems now ..I used to get a lot of cold sores.
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its also good for spots too when you feel a painful one coming it brings it out quicker.
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Thanks OP......
thanks choc-price amended
Acyclovir does not work with me. In fact I end up getting more. It ends up spreading them rather than reducing them.