Polysporin® Cold Sore Healing Patch

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Ok, so I've read reviews across the Internet before purchasing this product. Like most cold sore sufferers we are always looking for a way to cheat the awful 10-12 day process that just disrupts our lives! So I purchased them and tried them on an...   +

Ok, so I've read reviews across the Internet before purchasing this product. Like most cold sore sufferers we are always looking for a way to cheat the awful 10-12 day process that just disrupts our lives!

So I purchased them and tried them on an evil little bugger that decided to pop up unannounced in my sleep. I blasted it first with some valtrex but honestly it was beyond antiviral help at that point.

I love these patches. I placed one on and I immediately felt comfort- it took the swelling and tingling pain away immediately. It kept the CS from exploding, it was flat and manageable and I didn't notice any blisters at all it was just an obvious infection on my lip but not the blistering hemorrhage painful an unsightly kind! I thought, like most, what the heck is a non-medicated patch that will probably look like scotch tape on my face gunna do?! Crazy enough it actually helps and wayyyy better than abreva which I swear it useless. So, even better, the healing...oh my gosh the healing is the worst part am I right? It takes the longest, it scabs, it breaks, it bleeds, it hurts and it looks even worse than the beginning!

The patch made the healing process, I kid you not, amazing! No scab, no breaking, no drying, no caked on makeup, no issues with the showering peeling off the layer of skin that protects it, no waking up the next morning with a scab that will crack and break open the minute you smile, and and and did I mention the patch makes it barely noticeable!!!

Best healing and cold sore experience ever with this handy thing! Ok so the cons are there and I'm not saying its a miracle but its a step in the right direction! You can see the patch if it wrinkles ...but I've come to accept that I would rather them see that than the nightmare underneath!

You can cover it up with makeup tho its a little tricky and in shiny daylight it might be more obvious...but still without makeup it's pretty amazing at covering it up!

It doesn't hurt coming off if to follow directions: read the box you'll be fine lol and if anything throw some water around it and it'll come off like nothing!

It protects your cold sore from everything, touching it, drinking, eating, smoking, anything, which I now realize might have really made things worse ...duh!

I've tried everything- nail polish remover, abreva, windex(?), valtrex, coldfx, campex, lysine, Zovirax...everything lol!!! So I still thing valtrex and Zovirax are essential tools - get them if you don't have them- and pairing it with this patch - pff cold sores will be a cake walk!!

Good luck :)    -