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Tilly2 | 15:17 Sun 17th Mar 2013 | Body & Soul
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Over the last two weeks I have had a succession of cold sores travelling around my lips. None of them have been too bad as I zap them with Zovirax as soon as they appear. I currently have two, one on my top lip and one on my bottom lip but on opposite sides of my mouth.

Yesterday I felt a lump on the roof of my mouth and today I have a long ridge of blisters which seems to be expanding as I type!


My questions are, shall gargle with dilute TCP or salt water and will it do any good?
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"Lump on the roof of my mouth".........what sort of lump? hard? and how long as it been there?

I would gargle with Difflam which you can get from the chemist.
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The lumps have been there since yesterday. They feel like blisters. Could they be cold sores inside my mouth?
Ok ...no big deal.....yes almost certainly cold sore lesions in the mouth.

They will go.
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Thank you. Will TCP or salt water help, Sqad?
Neither will do any harm...;-)
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TCP it is then. Thanks again.
Find a horse, lift its tail and kiss its bottom.
It won't cure your cold sores but it will stop you licking your lips
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Does it have to be a horse, mrs.o?
erm, I guess not tilly. Which animal did you have in mind?
A goat would do just as well, Tilly. x
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This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase commonly heard in Stoke,'You can kiss my backside'

Didn't realise it was a cure for cold sores.
I think you are stuck with this Tilly.

we were using this as a lab agent in the seventies
see http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auid:293133

The nature of latency means that the same area should be affected by recurrent cold sores - the big thing in the seventies was that if you transplanted the skin somewhere else would the rash follow?
And it didnt - it reappeated in the original site (showing latency in nerves)

and yours seem to be spreading.

Think Herpangina.

I think it may be worth a trip to your GP to discuss whether oral acyclovir is necessary. I have to say I took it myself when I was immunosuppressed and it seemed OK.

and yes I think they may be cold sore blisters in your mouth (but they are meant to be painful)

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