I want to get this out there for others try. I cant gurentee it will help them but this is how ive severly crippled the severity of my cold sore outbreaks.

Before id just use abreva which worked fairly well on its own but the sore would still get fairly large and still hurt badly, just not last as long.

What you want to do is, in addition to abreva, take these supplements called L-Lysine. I take 1000mg a day once I notice the first signs and nuke the area 5x a day with abreva and it stops thw sore dead in its tracks if i do it early enough. They literally only grow to half size then kinda fizzle away the past 2 or 3 outbreaks ive had.

Please give this a try i cant gurentee it will work but i have a sore rn and its so deprived i hardly feel it and can hardly see it in the mirror despite it haveing 2 days so far to grow to full size. I cant gurentee it will work for everyone but this is my best treatment yet and will probablly be my go to till a vaccine/cure is devloped for HSV.

Update: two full days since i first saw it and it is gone, I won. It never even grew to full size or popped.