Hello all, I have what I perceive to be a strange problem. I have HSV-1 orally and my cold sores always appear in the same spot: on the top lip, to the right side but not far from the center of my lip. Every single day for a couple of months (and usually at the same time every day, around 10AM), this spot swells up and turns red. There's also another spot on the bottom lip, same side, that turns a little pink, and also a spot on the top left of my lip that turns a little pink. Most obvious, however, is the "cold sore spot", as I call it. It usually subsides after a few hours, but it's always just a little bit swollen, pretty much all day long for these last couple months.
My question is whether you all think this is the virus being in a constant state of "activation". My concern of course is passing it to my HSV-1 negative husband. I don't take suppressive Valtrex (only as needed), but at this point, I'm starting to think it's time to go down that path. I'm looking at my lip several times a day trying to figure out if it's a cold sore or not.
Recent blood work came back as being low (but not deficient) in B-12 and deficient in D. Is it possible that the redness on my lips (and it's not just swelling, but I also have this weird red tint to my upper lip, almost as if I'm wearing lipliner, which I noticed started around the same time as this swelling) is due to a deficiency and NOT a raging virus? I started supplementing a week ago with D3 and B-12. I've been using carmex frequently for the last couple of weeks but the redness keeps coming back.
So sorry for the long post, but if anybody has insight, I would be super grateful. I'm sure the stress of wondering if I have a cold sore every day isn't helping.