An awesome remedy- one that really works!

Being a well adjusted female adult is likely attributed to how our fathers (and lest we not forget our mothers) loved us. As a child, my dad showed his affection through a myriad of ways: bringing home the bacon, family vacations, hugs, snuggles on the couch while watching the news, and kisses.

Kisses were common place in my home, which now as an adult, I realize are unfortunately quite foreign in may families. Even so, dad got a kiss when he left for work, a kiss when he came home- possibly one in the driveway before he made it out of his truck. Today, we continue to share a kiss when we greet and depart.

Kisses all around, and it works for us. I've spread this lovely tradition to my children, of course. Kisses when they leave for school, sometimes when they come home. Before bed. When they are at their most peaceful, sleeping. Rarely with morning breath- but definitely when I come home or leave for work. Unfortunately, there comes a time when "The kissing drought" begins: during cold sore time.

All of this kissing is why as an adult, I can now attribute my cold sore virus to my dad. Likely I received one of his lovely kisses as a child and inherited the virus from his blistery lip. Thanks Dad! Just sharing the love, I get it. You didn't know better, and besides restraining kisses is hard to do. I concur.

I owe my beautiful cold sore face from my first, or was it my second grade school photo?- to Dad. My brain grimaces each time I remember that photo. Yuck! I vow to never kiss my children or hubby, when I've got a whopper on my lip. My goal is to never pass the cold sore trait onto the next generation. Even going so far as not kissing my newborn for over a tempting week when a giant after-birth cold sore reared its ugly head.

But now, after hearing this nasty story which everyone avoids talking about because it,s the dreaded... dare I say it... Herpes Virus (but only on the mouth people!), I have hope to offer. Hope in the form of L-Lysine. I had always heard it helped cold sores, but I had little success with it until now.

Luckily, my mom's friend Cathy suffers from the same ailment and knows some high-school-chemist-teacher-guy who developed a natural miracle to fight off cold sores and their hurtful effects when they flare up. Here it is for all of you closet cold sore fighters. May this help stop your suffering when your next flare up occurs:

From some miracle man- I wish I knew his name, and him, so I could give him a big thank you kiss!:

At first tingle (and you know what I mean by tingle)-

     Take 3000mg L-lysine every four hours for one day.

Day 2-

     Take 2000mg L-lysine every four hours for two days

Day 4-

     Take 1000mg L-lysine twice a day until it goes away.

I promise, your cold sore will go away if you catch it quick. No longer will a cold sore get bigger (than that first tingle size) and fester with bump after cursed bump. No longer will it swell up your glands and make your face feel like it's falling off one skin cell at a time. No longer will you experience kissing droughts lasting more than 5 days. What could be better than that?

Buy your L-Lysine bottle today and have it on hand! Located with all other vitamins, minerals, and holistic healing supplies, in your local grocery store- and seriously, it's cheap too!