The medication in question is for herpes-type cold sores, aka canker sores. It's valacyclovir, aka Valtrex. I used to have to suffer through the damned things for days if not weeks; now, if I have the meds on hand, it's a matter of three or four days at the most. At the moment, I'm having to go through yet another fight to get a refill, which is a pain in the ass, but at least I know there's something to fight for.
I've never noticed a temperature spike in association, but that may just be due to not noticing temperature spikes. I did recognise, at one point, that when I got really bad outbreaks of external cold sores -- as in a fat agonising cluster right outside the mouth -- it was often when there was something Very Important and Very Very VERY stressful that I really needed to talk to someone about, but couldn't.
I remember someone, possibly Robert Bly, observing at some point that the subconscious mind can have a hideously literal and perverse sense of humour.
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Date: Sunday, 26 April 2015 03:57 am (UTC)I've never noticed a temperature spike in association, but that may just be due to not noticing temperature spikes. I did recognise, at one point, that when I got really bad outbreaks of external cold sores -- as in a fat agonising cluster right outside the mouth -- it was often when there was something Very Important and Very Very VERY stressful that I really needed to talk to someone about, but couldn't.
I remember someone, possibly Robert Bly, observing at some point that the subconscious mind can have a hideously literal and perverse sense of humour.