Reddit mentions of NOW Supplements, L-Lysine (L-Lysine Hydrochloride) 1,000 mg, Double Strength, Amino Acid, 100 Tablets

Cold sore is an open wound and all it needs is contact with skin to transmit. If you're getting a BJ from someone that has an open cold sore there will be herpes laced saliva all over the damn place. A condom only covers your penis, not the area around it. Some of the virus will make contact with your skin around the base of your penis. Good news is that your skin is pretty resilient to bacteria and virus infections but there's still a good chance it will transmit.

Also, to the OP. Tell your g/f to take a Lysine supplement. Something like this and it should shorten the longevity or get rid of the outbreaks all together. This works very well for canker sores and genital herpes as well.

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To Clear up your complexion

1. Purchase Formula 10-0-6. You must buy it online. Amazon and Ulta.com have it for around $5.99. Click here for Amazon NOTE - Formula 10-0-6 is also known as SO Totally Clean Facial Astringent.
   
   a. Right before bed, get a good amount of the 10-0-6 on a jumbo cotton ball. Clean your face with it. (See NOTE below about what to do to the bottle of 10-0-6 when you open it for the first time.)
   
   b. Continue to use new cotton balls with 10-0-6 until the cotton ball comes back clean after using them on your face.
   
   c. Do not clean your face in the morning.
   
   
2. If you have pimples in your hairline or forehead……Shampoo with a product that doesn't have pimple causing ingredients. Here is one suggested from the article – Acure Organics shampoo
   
   
   
3. Take 1000mg daily of the supplement L-Lysine. Amazon has them for around $7.59.
   
   
4. Stay away from sugar. Eat healthy
   
   
5. Strive to drink at least 8 cups of water per day.
   
   
6. On the occasion you have a zit,
   
   a. Clean your face early in the evening with 10-0-6
   
   b. Then put a pea size amount of AcneFree Terminator 10 Acne Spot Treatment on the pimple.
   
   c. You will keep it on for at least eight hours (sleep in it). But be careful until it dries so as not to get it on any fabric. It will bleach fabric white.
   
   d. Continue to use the Acne Free Terminator nightly until you can push on the zit and it doesn't hurt. It usually takes 1-2 days to kill the zit, but get it as soon as you feel the pain of a pimple. The longer the zit lives, the harder it is to kill. Plus it will get an ugly whitehead if you let it live too long before putting the AcneFree Terminator on it.
   
   That is all you have to spend for a clearer complexion. $5.69 for the Formula 10-0-6; $7.53 for L-lysine; around $6.49 for the AcneFree Terminator; plus some jumbo cotton balls. And you only need to spend $9.40 for the Acure Mega Moisture Shampoo if you have pimples in the hairline or forehead.
   
   NOTE - Once you take the screw lid off the 10-0-6 for the first time, you will see this clear plastic top with a large pin size hole in it where the liquid is supposed to come out. I always pop that clear plastic top off by sticking one side of a pair of small scissors in the large pin hole and pulling it up. Here is a picture of an example. This trick makes it so the 10-0-6 goes on a cotton ball easier. Just put a jumbo cotton ball on the top of the bottle, tip it over to wet the cotton ball with the 10-0-6 and you are ready to use it on your face.
   

I’m so sorry about the rosacea you beautiful ladies. I have some tips that may help:
I tried fractional laser for my broken capillaries, and it didn’t do anything except give me a scar from a blister I got.

1. l- lysine helps strengthen blood vessel walls.
   https://www.amazon.com/NOW-L-Lysine-Double-Strength-Tablets/dp/B000Z9361G
   
   
2. fungal acne safe routine:
   Check your skin care products on www.skincarisma.com and make sure they are fungal acne safe.
   
   
3. the Ordinary’s Alpha Arbutin:
   https://www.beautylish.com/s/the-ordinary-alpha-arbutin-2-ha
   It has a cooling effect on the skin (skin carisma says this is not fungal acne safe, but it doesn’t give me any issues.)
   
   
4. scrape your face: yeah I don’t know why this helps so much but it does. Gently scrape the gunk off your face with this thingy:
   https://www.amazon.com/exfolimate-Face-Body-Exfoliation-Exfolimate/dp/B00SVDLGHY
   Also good for KP.
   
   
5. Squaline oil: I use the one from the ordinary, but if you search reddit for squaline oil you will find other recommendations.
   https://www.skinstore.com/the-ordinary-100-plant-derived-squalane-30ml/11416764.html
   
   
6. eucerin healing cream on your worst patches.
   https://www.amazon.com/Eucerin-Original-Healing-Rich-Creme/dp/B001FB5IIC
   
   
7. sun screen: I like this one: https://www.ulta.com/clear-face-liquid-lotion-sunblock-spf-55?productId=xlsImpprod11281057
   
   Or this one: https://www.amazon.com/Biore-SARASARA-Perfect-SPF50-original/dp/B0727STS9G
   
   Subscribe to r/skincareaddiction and r/rosacea. There is a lot of help there too. Good luck!!

Glad to help!

I just want to be clear though - seitan is low in lysine and both hemp and brown rice proteins that I mentioned are also low in lysine. So those probably won't help you pick up the slack with your lysine intake.

I noticed that you said you can eat tofu. That's good because soy is a complete protein and should have adequate amounts of lysine. It's actually strange since you said you couldn't tolerate soy-based meat substitutes. I can't really think of a reason directly related to soy that tofu would be okay (basically just coagulated soy milk) but soy based milk substitutes wouldn't. The only thing that comes to mind is some of them like Butler soy curls use the whole soybean and would have stuff like fiber from the soy in them. Most of them use a more processed type of soy like soy protein isolate which should be less likely to cause problems even compared to tofu.

In the worst case it's possible to find a pure lysine supplement like this one from Solgar or Now.

As someone who gets cold sores, let me tell you that you need to stock up on L-Lysine tablets. In the future, when you feel that tell-tale tingle, bust out the Lysine and take 3 pills or so every couple of hours. You can't really overdose (use your head and don't eat them like candy though) and you'll just pee out what you don't need, but these will keep the cold sores at bay. If you take the pills and one starts to appear, it will actually enter the healing stage almost immediately and will never go through that nasty infectious/pus-filled stage. You'll be in the clear in a few days instead of your typical 2 weeks.

As far as the date goes, maybe just be candid with her. Just tell her, "Hey, I get cold sores on occasions and it just so happens that I have one now" . Maybe crack a joke about drinking from her straw or making out on the first date. Play it cool. A lot of people get cold sores and even though they are painful and gross and make you feel like a monster, you don't have to be ashamed to admit to her that you have them. If this were to turn into a long term deal she'd eventually see you with one anyways, so might as well just be like "Well, here it is - TA DAAAA" and act like its no big deal.

Is something just like this all you recommend for L-Lysine? Also would you recommend zinc every other day? Or is it ok to take every day?

Have her take L-Lysine daily. It helps with lip and mouth health and I also hear it helps with acne. Anyhow, my old roommate used to take it and he swore it he never got cold sores while on it regularly.