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Collette · Chanel

cold sore?

needsfashionadvice · Kate Spade

I don't think it's a cold sore, mine never look better the second day if I haven't treated them with anything. Mine can get huge and make my whole lip swell up (giving me the duck lip look) if I don't take a pill or put cream on them right away when I see them. Mine hurt and itch like crazy too.

gingembre1 · Kate Spade

If you'd never had them before, you would have gotten other symptoms as well. The first time you get herpes simplex-1 (which is what causes cold sores), you get what is called primary onset. Children rarely, if ever, experience these secondary symptoms, but when adults catch Herpes 1 they usually experience some of the following:

fever
aches
swollen gums
cold sores inside and outside the mouth

Lucky me, I *just* got herpes 1 for the first time from my boyfriend. I seriously thought I was going to die, because no one could tell me what was wrong with me. Finally when I went to the dentist because of my swollen gums, he suggested herpes.

Anywho, I would say you definitely don't have a cold sore. But I wanted to put this info out there as sort of a public service announcement, because I personally had never heard of ANY of this info before I experienced it.

halleybird · Hermes

I get them constantly and have since childhood; I have to take medication every day to prevent them. I agree with the others -- not cold sore. A cold sore will look like a blister. It will start as a bump, then swell up huge (just like a blister on your foot). Then it will drain and it will hurt like a mofo. Then it will take freaking forever to go away.

gingembre1 - Most people who get the virus get it once and then never again. So you probably won't ever get one again.

Kelly · Hermes

maybe it's a canker sore? that sounds like what happens when I get one. I thought you could only get them inside your mouth, but I might be mistaken.

Collette · Chanel

Thanks girls! You're right I don't think it's a cold sore because today it's almost gone and from what you're all saying it wouldn't go away so quickly!