Why/what is this on my lip?

Question

For the last like 5 months my lips have been REALLY chapped. (And before all of you say, oh you have herpes!! No, i don't. I've been tested a billion times because of problems with my birth control.). My mom says she thinks its cold sores but they arent sores.. My lips are just really dry and no matter how much i moisturize them they won't quit!!!

You know when your lips get so chapped they crack? Sounds weird but everyone gets it. Well that's my problem. Except no matter WHAT i do, it won't go away. It does it bad in the corners of my mouth... So bad that even when i get it to go away the corners of my mouth are red and slightly scarred still. Since this has been happening i've gone through about a tube and a half of chapstick. Every time it would go away, i would quit applying the chapstick again and it would be back in a day or two. Recently i got Abreva and it's been helping a ton... I'm waiting to see if this makes it stay away.. But i dont know. What the hell could this be! Please help!

It's almost like the skin on my lips is being eaten away in tiny areas. I get these spots on the inside of my nose too. It's like somebody rubbed a teeny tiny spot of skin raw with a needle or something.. I dont know how to describe it. Please help

Answer 1

It could be a yeast or other fungal infection. It happens sometimes. A doc could tell you for sure with a culture.

Answer 2

Cold sores and oral herpes are the EXACT same thing...literally two different terms for the same thing. Another term for them is 'fever blisters'. And I don't know what birth control has to do with herpes? Why would you be tested for oral herpes? I've never heard of anybody getting tested for them (unlike genital herpes, which is a whole nother story). Something like 80% of people have them. but your right, it doesn't sound like it is cold sores (which is what abreva is for, so that's odd that it helps). It sort of sounds like seborrhoeic dermatitis. You can get it around the nose and lips (but I don't know for sure). Or it could just severely chapped lips. I recommend L-Lysine. It's an amino acid that promotes healthy skin :) also, please talk to your doctor, nobody on this site (including myself) can really know what going on with you! Good luck!!

Answer 3

Cold sores are a form of herpes... And it sounds like that's what your dealing with. They're not the same as genital herpes. Once you have been infected with the herpes virus (via chicken pox...ect) it lies dormant in the body, popping up occasionally in the form of cold sores. There are different simplexes of the herpes virus. I think it's simplex 1 and 2. I forget which is which. But it's really not a big deal. I'd just keep using the abriva. And you can get cold sores next to your nose. I've seen them myself.

Answer 4

have you recently monved to a dry environment? If so then this is the route of your problems. Just keep applying chapstick and Abreva. I've never heard of anything like that before.