Cold sores.
I hate them.
I am so paranoid that any tingly sensation on my lips causes me to go into complete hysterics. I am plastered to the mirror waiting every so patiently and watching with HORROR as the tingling becomes that horrid looking vesicle then it bursts and looks like a cornflake or rice bubble from yesterday’s breakfast that JUST WON’T COME OFF NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I TRY AND SCRAPE IT!
Except that I have never had a cold sore in my life.
My family is well aware of my phobia and to everyone’s credit, they’re really quite accomodating. They humour me knowing full well the next day there will be nary a tingle or a-twitching. Of course I will have forgotten all about it and have moved on until the next time the lip starts tingling.
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Do you think I need help?
Haha! Sorry to laugh, but such a random phobia. Touch wood, but I haven’t had one of those in a long while – but you’re right, they’re so icky.
Unrelated, but sort of makes me think about that awful ulcer ad that’s on TV at the moment; the one with the creepy little man in a bubble trying to burst out. It’s enough to make me never open my mouth again.
-Aly
Salamaat,
aww sorry sis. Never had one either… what are you using for it? In case it ever came handy for me?
aww..you are such a girl
don’t worry, i would be plastered to the mirror too if it happened to me (watch it happen like tommorow! :p)
Aly: It’s ok to laugh. I haven’t seen that ad – must watch out for it.
Maliha: I usually use Carmex and apply it every hour on the hour for the first day I get the tinglies and then I don’t know if the tingling is the cold sore or the Carmex and then the next morning, there is no more tingling. It goes like this every time. When I don’t have Carmex I don’t use anything. See, today – no tingling,no cold sore…. just like husband said would happen (and what happens each and every time I have a “cold sore scare.”
Yes, I am a girl
You don’t have a cold sore… seriously!
Oh wait… what’s that!!??
/me points
Ha!
No, seriously… you dont have one!
LOL, glad it was just a scare. Ramadan Mubarak.
If you really do have a cold sore you could dab it with alcohol a couple time a day. It helps to shrink it.