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Originally Posted by Ronhutton
I have often wondered about the herpes virus and PD. This is the one that shows up in cold sores on the lips. I have suffered from cold sores from around 20 years ago, and I am in my 18th year with PD. I put zovirex ointment on the sores and it gets rid of them for a few weeks, but it has not erradicated the virus and back they come. Then of course there was the ensephylitus outbreak many years ago, leaving a flood of PDers in its wake.
How many others have the cold sore problem?
Ron
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Yes, and what triggers that cold sore? A ton of people have this and they will get a sore, then it will go away, maybe they are good for years, and then boom, there's another outbreak. What is that virus doing all that time in the body? Is is just lying around, choosing not to be active, or is the body working on suppressing it the whole time until something happens and the body is overwhelmed and cannot fight it anymore and then you see the fever blister? Anybody know?
And that's another point: so many people have viruses lurking in their body, and it is not until there is an erruption (AIDS, fever blister, etc.) and the body manifests with physical symptoms that you even know there is this alien in the body. Without any manifestation of physical symptoms, how would one find out their body had been invaded?
And I guess I am really asking these questions because if PD were like herpes, and we could control the virus...well, then we could control PD. Or maybe this is way too simplistic.