My doctor says there is no cure for cold sores... my Mom has lots of home remedies (apple cider vinegar, toothpaste, tea tree oil) - in the end Polysporin Cold Sore Healing Patch worked a bit better than all the home cures. It was slow acting. I am impatient and needed the cold sore gone asap - which will never happen apparently! Anyways, it does not claim to cure it claims to heal and it did help alleviate the pain. I still have a light scar, so not sure if that will eventually go away or not. It's been six weeks now. If nothing else Polysporin Cold Sore Healing Patch made me feel like I was trying something instead of walking around with an ugly cold sore.

It's hard to review this....on one hand, it does offer a great benefit (which is that you can use them when you sleep, which keep the sore from cracking and getting cold-sore-germ all over your pillow, which is important, because cold sores are SUPER contagious, and, yes, you can spread them to yourself if you touch it and then touch your lip/face/other unmentionable areas, and then you will have more than one infection). But, on the other hand, there is NO medicinal ingrediants in these patches....people seem to think there is, but there is not. Okay, that, in and of itself, is okay - after all, they do a good job of keeping the sore from spreading, so, that's a good thing, and they don't need to do more than that by adding medicinal ingrediants (by medicinal ingrediants, I mean something that would help heal the sore, like Abreva does).

But. But...how the heck do they get away with charning 20 dollars for 15 tiny tiny patches?? That's over a dollar a patch! And the patches are nothing...just little circles of something that looks like tape.

I guess, my feeling on them is this: they do a great job of keeping the sore from spreading & causing more new infections, but they are so over-priced it is insane.

What I do is buy them, but only wear them at night. Who can afford to wear them all the time? Cold sores can last up to two weeks, and the patches only last about 8 hours....you do the math, and you'll find wearing them all the time is crazy crazy expensive.

As I said, due to the insane cost, I only wear them at night. During the day, I use some kind of cream, like Abreva or one of those Lysiene creams. This works for me, because all the patch does (since it has no medicinal ingrediants) is stop the sore from spreading....to me, the most important time to wear them is nighttime, since I might touch it in my sleep and spread it around, and because I don't want the virus all over my pillow cases (after all, it is herpes...."cold sore" is just the nice name for it, it is really a form of herpes). During the day, I use some kind of cream, and just remember not to touch my sore. I use a q-tip to apply the creams, so I don't have to touch the sore.

I will buy these again, because I feel I need them for when I sleep, but I am horrified by the price, especially considering they have no medicinal value. I swear, I am going to try and make home-made ones out of duct tape or something!

I enjoy this product and will occasionally purchase it only because it hides the cold sore very well which I love because we all know how unsightly they are. Personally, I found this product did not work in terms of healing the cold sore, it may have helped a bit but not drastically like some may hope when looking for a treatment. I would buy this if you're looking for a way to hide the cold sore. The medication in the patch is just a small added bonus.

I do get cold sores and found these really didn't work. The nice thing about them though, is that it does cover up the cold sore like a band aid so that helps with the cracking and pain associated with cold sores. It kind of camouflages it too which is nice, you can put lipstick over it as well.

Well I have been prone to cold sores for years and years. I had such high hopes for this patch but it just didn't work for me. I caught it before the cold sore actually came out but it didn't seem to speed up the healing time at all.

J'ai déjà essayé ce produit Polysporin sur un début de feu sauvage. Malheureusement, il n'a pas été efficace pour moi. Le feu sauvage est sorti quand même. Quel horreur!

I used it and it helps cover up the sore not sure if it actually slows the growth of cold sore time down
But I would use it again and recommend it to others

I'm not a big fan of this product personally and I didn't feel like it helped my cold sores at all. It didn't stick very well to my lips and kept falling off so I had to use so many. For anyone who suffers from cold sores, I know this sounds crazy but my best tip is to put a little Pepto Bismol directly onto the cold sore overnight and it will help to dry your cold sore up. In the morning, I wash it off with warm water and it looks way better and heals it really fast!

I had purchased these to try out as I frequently get cold sores, but was not very impressed. If your cold sore is on half of your lip & half on your skin it really hurts to take it off when it is time to replace. Only used it once & gave the rest away.

The polysporin cold sore healing patch is effective before the cold sore has become full blown. I put mine on when i felt a cold sore coming on. I found the patch was WAY to big for my cold sore but did not realize this until it was already on. So i left it on for hours, it stuck very well. Left the patch on overnight and removed it the next morning, where the cold sore was white and macerated. At this point i left the patch off and then put 1/2 patch on at night. These are also quite expensive, but i found it did cut my healing time down in at least half. I would use this product again.