Wolf Goes to the Doctor, 2006 Edition

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by wolf

I will have to try the L-Lysine, but I'm finding the notion of life without chocolate quite depressing.

(oh crap. I had PB on my bagel this morning ... well, maybe I can think of it as the path to another day off of work).

I need to clarify my statement: You do not have to GIVE UP chocolate and peanuts, just do not eat them until your lesions clear up and for at least a week afterwards. Life is not worth living without chocolate! It's just that I am 10 times more likely to have an outbreak if I just ate an entire jar of peanuts, and it soon became obvious that the herpes would break out again if I didn't lay off more peanuts and chocolate for a few weeks afterwards (both mixed together are as deadly as you can get, i.e., Reese's Peanut Butter Cups). It has been worth it, however, to be able to put an end to the outbreak before it really gets serious. The first indication that I am going to break out is a pounding pain on the left side of my head and lethargy. This starts about 24 hours before the outbreak. I immediately rush for the bottle of Lysene and get three of them down as quickly as possible. There have been times where this actually kept the sores from erupting, my upper lip and inside my earlobe get red and hot but do not go any further and are gone by the next day.

P.S. Something I forgot to mention before: I control the drippy lesions by slathering with BLISTEX. It works nicely and the scabs can be wiped right off with a tissue that way. This beats the treatment the doctor in Albuquerque tried when I had the first episode. He cut away the lesions and filled them with gentian violet and then put my cheek under some kind of purple light. I now have pits on my face from that. In retrospect it sounds like witch doctor treatment, but nobody knew what it was in those days.