swollen lip due to cold sore

My question is that a few days ago, I believe my lip my have split due to the cold and actually developed into a bit of a sore. It was very sensitive to the touch however, it officially split about 2 days ago and is already nearly 100% healed as I have been actively putting vaseline on it. When I look at it in the mirror however, it looks somewhat circular in shape and is a little red and swollen around the outside.

It first appeared 6 days ago when all of a sudden I felt like a burning sensation and my lip felt swollen. Since then I have been putting cold sore medicine, thinking it could possibly be one starting out. I have never had one before, but my sister-in law and friend said they start out in a tingling or burning or itching sensation. So, upset, but worried, I continued the ointment. Six days later, it looks exactly the same maybe a little dry but the same.

The symptoms that you are describing are that of a cold sore. Do not kiss while you have this, because it is very contagious when the virus is active. You can get over the counter medications for cold sores. But unfortunately there is no cure. It is the Herpes Zoster virus that causes it, and once we have had it, it lies dormant in our body. Chicken Pox and Shingles is another form of the same virus.

The only things that I knowingly am allergic to are lactose and chocolate, both of which cause me to purge. Only that side of my lip is swollen, my tongue and throat feel fine. Also, if it helps, I'm a musician (woodwinds and strings), and I haven't come into contact with any unusual instruments. I've only played my flute, clarinets and violin this weekend.

I am a women and 4 weeks ago I had oral sex with someone, woke up in the morning and she had a cold sore all over his bottom lip. She said she felt no tingling or pain but had an allergic reaction to a lipstick and this caused it and it was chelitis not cold sores.

everything you've asked about can add up to wearing you down to trigger a cold sore. even the heat of a pipe on your lip can be enough "trauma" to trigger one to reoccur. sunlight is also a trigger so not unusual to get one after being out in the sun enjoying yourself in nice weather too. you didn't catch oral herpes again as you already are aware of.

I get a bump on my lip every week...every time one goes away another is there...idk if it's a cold sore due to stress or just pimples...

With the negative results would it be safe to kiss my date in about five days or am I being too paranoid, I have trouble telling a cold sore from a zit or ingrown hair on the lip?

I was pretty stressed about it and now have a cold sore under my nose, but I kissed my boyfriend on Wednesday before this new cold sore appeared and he has not had any cold sore symptoms.

Id see your Dr if you have swollen glands, could be something you need to be treated for like strep. There are lots of over the counter medications you can use to help the cold sore. Just go to any store and ask them.

Hi ladies. This is more just to share unless anyone has some good advise. Of course...the day before I'm due (today) I wake up with a cold sore on my lip. I have had them before so I know I have the virus. I have read that if I have had them I pass immunity onto the baby at birth. But I imagine that still means I can't kiss her and have to be very careful until this thing is completely healed. I have also read that cold sores can be extremely dangerous for newborns.

If it's the first one in a long while

If this was a newly acquired hsv1 infection, it won't be reflected on a blood test. Also even the best blood tests we have still miss 1 out of every 10 hsv1 infections. Also just because you test + for hsv1, doesn't mean that everything is due to hsv1. Make sense? Blood testing is helpful but has it's drawbacks which is why a lesion culture of fresh symptoms is the best course of action whenever possible.

Since then, I was kissing my partner throughout the day and then they performed oral sex on me that night. Today I woke up to my lip still swollen, but now with a little bit of a sore and found out from my doctor that it is indeed a cold sore. Since finding out and since the actual sore came out I have had no sexual contact or kissing.

i've been infected for as long as i can remember with cold sores on my lip, i have them roughly once every 2 months or when i am sick recently i had a cold sore, and when it went away i got a new bump on my lip, but it didnt "feel" like a cold sore, it felt like normal lip flesh bulging out a bit and being swollen (size of a normal cold sore) after a few days it went away, and then it came back on another place on my lip, and again, it does not feel tingly like herpes normally do

my question is if i was alreadly infected with the hsv1, is it possilble to get genital hsv1? and is my cold sore a cold sore? since it has not changed in 6 days, no blister just swollen. and the doctor said i have to wait 4 weeks to see and blister, would the antiviral pills extend the 4 weeks? currently i have to symptons in my genital area.

However, I woke up today to find the peak of my upper lip slightly swollen. Here are two photos of a close-up. Can someone tell me if this is a developing cold sore or maybe some sort of allergy? http://imgur.com/a/h1cbC http://imgur.

By the next day, I woke up to the bottom of my lip being swollen, I went to the doctor and they told me it was a canker sore because at this time the bump was completely inside my lip (around the line where you would naturally tear your lips with your teeth). As the day progressed, the bump started to grow, swell and contain a yellow center. Eventually, this bump caused a small bump, directly on top of it! Possibly bit the top of my lip as well.

( I think its very rare but maybe speak to your doctor to get all the facts

so if a cold sore is not bleeding it is not an open wound and hiv cant be absorbed or get in, is this a correct assumption? or is a cold sore like a mucus membrane? the cold sore was probably only 12 hours old.

About the start of summer I started feeling swolen lips, usually what hapoens on the severe rare occassion when I have gotten a cold sore or 2. Stress related. So this latest thing is at the end of one of thr lip cracks a dry patch of skin appeared. Its one of those things you pick at. Ive pulled it a couple times but it comes right back even in the same day!

but under sunlight, u can see my upper lip is swollen. also its been 6 days of my cold sore and it has not changed, the color went down a bit, but my lip is still swollen.i have been applying abreva on it 4 times a day. my question is if i was alreadly infected with the hsv1, is it possilble to get genital hsv1? and is my cold sore a cold sore? since it has not changed in 6 days, no blister just swollen.

I have frequent canker sores, but dont get cold sores. My lip is swollen and feels strange and not sure if a sore is coming. Thanks.

Hello, I am a 25 year old male. As a child I would sometimes get cold sores on my lips. Now that I am older I recently got a cold sore on my lip accompanied w/ a mildly tender gland in my neck. I read that those are generally associated w/ new infections...does this mean this new cold sore is due to HSV2? Or can the gland sometimes do this during a cold sore if it's the first one in a long while? Thanks!

There needs to be romantic rubbing kissing with a lip sore at the time to be at any real risk as shedding does not occur that often. Him giving you oral sex has nothing to do with you having symptoms, Many times there are no symptoms.

So a couple weeks ago I had a cold sore and then it healed. A few days later on the other side of my mouth I felt a bump and it hurt when I touched it. I thought it was a pimple and tried to pop it but nothing came out. The bump just got really sore and swollen. I squeezed it really really hard because I was so frustrated that it might be a cold sore even though I had literally just had one go away.

Swollen lip due to cold sore

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