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See a doctor or nurse practitioner in person if this is your first outbreak

Cold Sore Treatment Delivered to Your Door

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Cold Sores Are a Pain - Our Medical Team Can Help

So long as this isn't your first cold sore, our doctors or nurse practitioners quickly review your information and give you a prescription for an effective antiviral cold sore treatment.

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About Cold Sores

Cold sores appear on and around your lips, not in your mouth

Cold sores appear on and around your lips. Cold sores do not occur in your mouth.

The herpes simplex virus type 1 is the most common cause of cold sores. A huge number of people carry the virus, but only some people get cold sores. There isn't a way to get rid of the virus that causes the cold sores.

Cold sores typically last around a week. Your first cold sore outbreak may last 2 weeks. You may feel a tingling before the cold sore appears. A cold sore looks different on different people. Typically there's some kind of cold sore blister.

Some people get a cold sore every couple of years. Other people get a cold sore once a month.

Understand the Risks of Using Our Cold Sore Service

Important information about our online cold sore treatment

Our medical team looks at the answers you give to our health questions to work out if you have cold sores. We'll also look at your medical history to work out if it's safe and appropriate to give you a prescription without meeting you in person.

Sometimes we'll make the wrong call

We use evidence-based guidelines to decide when it's safe to give you a cold sore prescription, but there's 2 ways we can get it wrong:

We might give you a prescription when you don't actually have cold sores, causing you to take medicine you don't need
We might think you don't have cold sores when you do, mistakenly declining to give you medicine you should take

We're more likely to make the wrong diagnosis if this is your first cold sore outbreak. That's why you shouldn't use GoMDUSA if this is your very first cold sore.

Alternative cold sore treatments

You have several options for treating cold sores:

Over-the-counter alternatives from the pharmacy (less effective but with fewer side-effects)

Prescription-strength creams from an in-person doctor visit

No medicine at all - cold sores will typically heal on their own

'Off-label' use of medicines for preventative treatment

Doctors throughout the US routinely give patients the cold sore medicines we prescribe for daily preventative treatment. But it's important to know that the FDA hasn't specifically approved the medicines we prescribe for daily preventative use. That said, it's totally normal for patients to get these medicines from doctors or nurse practitioners for cold sores.

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Who We Can't Help

If any of the following apply, please see a doctor or nurse practitioner in person

Under 18
Never had a cold sore before
Cold sore symptoms lasting over 10 days
Moderate to severe pain eating or drinking
Pregnant, may become pregnant, or breastfeeding
Problems with your immune system as a result of HIV, treatment for cancer (chemotherapy), immune disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, or long-term use of prednisone / steroids

Organ transplant
Kidney problems or dehydration
Take medicine that can be toxic to the kidney (antibiotic called gentamicin, chemotherapy, anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen or naprosyn)
Severe headache including pain spreading to the front of your head, eye pain, or ear pain
Severe neck pain with sensitivity to light or sound
You want topical acyclovir (Zovirax), penciclovir (Denavir), or buccal tablet acyclovir (Sitavig)

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