Oral Herpes Support Group

I use it and it seems to shorten the outbreak time. Good luck.

I'm taking it now for one month and yes, it has reduced my outbreak time.
(My Dr. recommended me to take 1000 mg per day instead of high dosage )
It works better than actual medication
Thank you.

I have had oral herpes my entire life. I take 1500 mg of lysine daily and it has dramatically cut down on my outbreaks. I used to have outbreaks what seemed like every other month. Now it's about twice a year. Google it. I think that it works. When I get an outbreak, I take more of it.

I take lysine pills daily when i remeber. From what i researched is that you need to cut out foods with the aa arginine in it (cola, peas, peanuts, chocolate!) Compared to when i didn't take lysine i get fewer outbreaks.

(When you eat foods high in arginine take a pill or two ...lysine counteracts arginine)

Thank you for your suggestion, Lynnkate. I did not know about now that I've read it more about it on the web site about aa arginine. I love to eat cereal grains, peas but I may need to cut down. Thank you for sharing the information with me.

I've been taking it for about 2 months, after a pharmacist swore her life to it that it's the best thing she's ever taken. I'm finding that it's not being helpful at all. I'm going to try it for one more 500g bottle, but if I don't feel any changes I'm going to stop taking it.

Is l-lysine to be used during an outbreak?