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misdiagnosed canker sores

I visited a walkin clinic. For 5 days I have been experiencing severe fatigue, headache, swollen glands on the right side of my neck, sore throat and a very swollen bottom lip with a nasty blister on the inside of my bottom right lip. The doctor took a quick look at it and immediately said it was herpes simplex and gave me a prescription for Famvir. I came home to research this diagnosis and came across Dr. Stoll's website. After reading the desription of canker sores I think that my blister is indeed a canker sore instead of herpes simplex.
The blister is on the inside of my lip and I also have a small blister on my tongue. I'm not going to take the prescription instead I am going to use the Glyoxide. My quetion is " should I be feeling this bad from a canker sore?" I'm really not feeling well. Can you offer any suggestions? thankyou

Follow Ups:

• Re: misdiagnosed canker sores (Probably not.) (Archive in herpes.) Walt Stoll 09:08:52 8/03/01 (0)

In Reply to: misdiagnosed canker sores posted by coy on August 01, 2001 at 21:29:42:

Hi, Coy.

If you have never before had "cold sores" I believe that this IS a primary infection of helpes simplex type 1. If you have had "cold sores" in the past this is not the diagnosis.

You will never again have these severe symptoms since your body will accomodate itself to the virus for the rest of your life and you will only have minor outbreaks in the future.

This IS catching and the only way I know to prevent them in the future is to take at least 1 gram of lysine a day and avoid foods with arginine (see your reference librarian). Two grams a day might even help you with this one which will, typically, last about 6 weeks. It might even spread. While you have it do not kiss any babies on their eyes since this can cause blindness!

Let us know how you do. See the archives about herpes for more information.

Walt