Sickness Rant

twentysomething215

This is really just a rant. I get cold sores that express on my eye (sometimes on the inside of the lid, sometimes the outside). They are painful and annoying and really ugly, and I have been getting them since I was 3.

Just recently I was saying how I haven't had any for 3 years, and I thought the antiviral gel the doctor gave me helped to prevent them (which, to be fair, it did for 3 years, the longest I've gone without one). Of course I got one that started to express today. 

I work as a post-secondary counselor, and graduation is on Wednesday. I am just so sad because I love meeting the parents and taking pictures with the kids, but this year I am going to look a mess. I am so angry/annoyed even though I know its nothing that can be prevented. And I know that this isn't the biggest deal in the world, but I'm just so miserable, cause I feel like such crap. My eye bothers me constantly, and this time I have weird bumps near my ear and chin that are hard, swollen and sore. I am assuming they are glands and just because of the cold sore, but they are painful when I talk, yawn, swallow....

Sorry about the rant. Hubby is asleep and I am just so miserable, I just had to get it off my chest. Does anyone else on here get cold sores expressing in their eye? Any advise for relief? I know the cold compress trick, and am using an ice pack right now. No one I know expresses there (although my little brother expresses on his tongue, which is also an oddity) so I have no one to swap stories/advice/tricks with.

 Hope you all enjoy your night.

TUSBride22

Aww, I'm sorry. That's awful... I get them on my lips sometimes, usually when I'm under a lot of stress. I can't imagine having them on your eyelid, that must be painful. Have you heard of taking L-lysine? I started taking that last time I had an outbreak and it helped to shorten it. I don't know if it will help you but anything is worth a shot right? And of course it had to happen at the most inconvenient time right? Seems to be the way it goes. Hopefully by Wed. it will have calmed down a bit. It may not seem like a big deal if you never deal with them, but it sucks, I know. Sorry