How do you cope when you get a cold sore?

I used to get them terrible and learned, finally, how best to deal with them. You need to build up your immune system. Eat healthy, raw foods, B6, Vit C. Get yourself a bottle of L-formula Lysine (amino acid beneficial to the health of the skin) and start the recommended dosage before you feel a cold sore coming on. I have stopped cold sores from developing by applying ice to the area, but ended with a bump that took forever to go away. Now I attack the sore with a cotton ball and hydrogen peroxide and manually dry it up. Remove whatever scab forms (easy after a shower) and keep swabbing it with peroxide. It will look like hell for a moment, but blot it good and put some Heparin sodium (available otc as "Lipactin" in Canada) which works 100 times better than Abreva, but it's not available in the states. google it- I went to Canada to buy it years ago, maybe you can get it online now. If nothing else, put some neosporin ointment and a bandaid for sleeping. You don't want to scratch and spread the virus.