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Abreva Comments and Feedback

Abreva is a herpes product that people are finding over the counter or ordering online in an attempt to treat herpes. If you have tried Abreva please share your positive or negative experiences for posting on this feedback page. Send me your comments and feedback along with your blessing to post on the site. All names and e-mail addresses will be kept confidential.

ABREVA - Have you tried it?

This guy tried Abreva on his herpes whitlow and it didn't work

My husband and I have been using Abreva for at least a year and a half. I have both types of herpes and It works great for both. I'm not sure its intended for use for genital herpes but it really does a good job. If I feel anything I just put it on there and often I do not get an outbreak. same for my husband. I'm not sure if the oral herpes is just a more aggressive virus or not but if I do get an outbreak when I have used abreva it's usually oral. and yes as a person mentioned previously the out break can happen on the side of where I had put the abreva but I don't blame abreva It seems to me to be the rascally virus, not abreva. So sometimes I put it on a larger area just to be sure. I do find this site helpful thanks to all who shared their experience. - C

Chap Stick makes a lip balm containing petroleum ingredients and is said to work just as well or better than Abreva.  Also Abreva is very expensive, it sells for about $16 for 4 oz. - W

I believe that Abreva helps me. It definitely stops the stinging/tingling a little sooner, I am not sure that it promotes healing. I just know that within 3 hours of applying it to an oral or genital lesion, the area begins to feel better. I do this with my Gyn's blessing, she has just told me not to use it internally. I do not know if it is the placebo effect or it really helps me, but it appears to really help me. For that reason, I will continue using it. - L

I used Abreva for my recent cold sore outbreak and am convinced that it spread it and made it worse this time.  I actually ended up with two different clusters of blisters on my lip rather than one, and one was more or less on my chin below my lip (and I have never gotten one there before). I must say, however, that years back I used Abreva and it seemed to work like a charm.  I think part of it may have to do with the timing of it.  If you put it on at the first sign (which almost means you need to have a tube always with you) then it works great, at least it did for me. - A

The results were ok not great but ok, what really upset me was that every time I went to use it a lot would come out of the tube and it would go to waste. About 80% was wasted because it would just come out I would tried to close the tube really fast but it would not work. So the money was not worth paying for it. Very annoyed by that - V

Not only did the Abreva not work for me - it made my situation worse. I saw better results when I stopped using it! - P

I used the Abreva for three days and it made my lips worse. I was hoping that it would work great because it cost so much! I wonder what kind of studies were done to make such great claims about it. I am going to try and return it. I am not satisfied with it. Thank you for your interest. - P

I used Abreva for 5 days and the results were not good. I am very disappointed in Abreva. I didn't mind spending the money for it, very costly, but with no results. I feel it was money wasted. I have now used another product and with just two applications I am getting results from the other product.

A coworker recommended Abreva and it's good. In three days my cold sore was a memory. If I had used it as soon as I felt the tingling the blisters would probably have never appeared. I haven't had another cold sore to test this on. (and I'm not complaining) The little tube (and I do mean little) costs about $15 but you can find it on sale for around $10. Hope this helps! - M

Abreva seems to make my cold sores WORSE.  I have used lip balms with L Lysine in them that seem far more effective. - M

Yoshi2me - Thanks for your site and the information.  I've been struggling with accepting myself with genital herpes for a long time - going on 10 years now.  Your outlook is amazing and inspiring. Also - wanted to give a "thumbs up" to Abreva!  Totally recommend it.  For a year or so after I was diagnosed I was on Famvir.  I switched to daily Valtrex sometime later.  Even after switching doses over the course of about 6 years from 500 mg to 1gram, and back again, I still had outbreaks at least 4 times a year.  I went off daily Valtrex and took 500mg every 2-3 days just in case, but still had  at 3-4 outbreaks a year.  I finally broke down one morning after waking up to another painful outbreak and bought a tube of Abreva.  With Valtrex and Abreva, my outbreak was shortened and a lot less painful.  Now, whenever I have a tingle, twinge, or itch, I dab some Abreva.   I haven't had an outbreak for almost a year.  Thanks again for your support!  Please feel free to post my comments under the Abreva product review. - S