User Reviews for lysine

L lysine (500mg/day) has helped me immensely with symptoms of anxiety and ptsd. It has helped me feel more upbeat and outgoing and social and has also given me more of a sense of physical well being.

As preventive to cold sores. Controling lysine and arginine rich food intake also helps. To prevent cold sore outbreaks arginine should never be consumed in excess to lysine. Cutting seeds, nuts, chocolate, etc. also helps because they have a lot of arginine. So l-lysine suplement helps to balance daily intake. 1000 mg is the correct daily dose for most people according to body weight. More than 1000 mg daily should be taken only if necessary and for little time.

Don't think it made any difference at all for the HSV, but for topical infections/acne, it has been extremely helpful. Chronic acne and infection from diabetes weakened immune system, and now it's more like a few normal pimples instead of big throbbing painful oozing things and having them all over all the time.

I believe this helps for depression. I have been taking this supplement for at least 20 years and have noticed mood elevation when I do take 4-5 thousand milligrams a day. I used to cry more when I didnt take it but now that I have aged more I notice more anger and frustration when I dont take it. Its a much more balanced quality of life for me when I take this supplement.

I can sleep!

I always hit my cold sores with l lysine. I also got shingles and used it for that too. I hardly got any shingles sores after I started taking it.

It has helped my skin as well as my cold sores. Great>>

I use it for Diabetes and for cold sores.

I am 49 y/o and I have had cold sore outbreaks ever since my beloved mother gave me a kiss on the mouth when she had a cold sore outbreak when I was 16 years old. Three weeks later I got my first cold sore and I've had them every winter ever since. Winter 2015 I finally figured out that my outbreaks were due to the cold snaps we get living in Florida. I realized that when it starts to get cold (below 50°) my lips will start to feel like a prune and NO amount of lip moisturizing helps. I finally realized it was the cold snaps that was changing my pH balance and breaking me out in cold sores . It took me till I was literally this age of 49 to figure this out . I just figured cold Soares was something I would have to live through every winter which I have until 2015. During the summer when I never have outbreaks because my lips are moist I started taking small doses of lysing (500 mg) and also for the first time started taking biotin for "hair skin and nails" (one maximum dosage daily tablet 10k mcg). I took these two over-the-counter medicines religiously every day starting September 2016... Just before the cold season hit . I do not take them during the spring and summer because I don't breakout. Whenever the cold snaps DID occur I IMMEDIATELY UP my l-lysine to 3x a day ... Usually blended into my smoothies so I couldn't taste it at all... 1000 mg (yup!) each serving... morning noon night . Sometimes I even did it four times a day. (I got this 3k - 4k MG dosage idea from a holistic website). When the cold snap ended I DROPPED the dosage of l-lysine (any brand you want) to normal 500 mg. Also Biotene is taken every day year-round with my regular vitamin supplements . If I felt like it during a cold snap I might take biotin morning and night with my l-lysine smoothie :) Lip moisturizers don't keep you from breaking out. This is my second year and I have had ZERO outbreaks it's awesome. Finally!!!!! L lysine and biotin. Read More Read Less

I use super lysine+ for many years. I only take when I feel the start of a ocld sore. I take 3 pils 3x day. Often it never erupts, but even if it does, it doesn't last nearly as long as if I don't take. If I don't take till after eruption it seriously decreases the eruption time and severity. I don't take when no issues. I've recommended to friends, and they have also had similar results.

I have taken L-Lysine for years at the onset of the tingling of herpes (simplex or shingles) and it works like a charm. 1000 mg every hours.With the shingles I also added b complex, vitamin c (1000mg) and VSC by Natures Sunshine. Shingles outbreak minimal, lasted less than 2 weeks, no residual pain, skin staining etc.

I always have cold sores on my lips every year, after taking Lysine, my cold sore was gone since then, it's been more than a year now. Thanks God.

I started taking L-lysine a month ago and have not had an outbreak or side effects. I also use, daily, alcohol to clean the area and apply amino acid cream that clears the scap. Thank GOD I found out about Lysine!!!

best ever, My cold sores are always gone with in 2 days..

I am 79 and I have had the problem from as far back as I can remember. At first all we had was Campho phnique (misspelled and useless) Then there was an article in Readers Digest about L-Lysine. For several months or maybe a year no drug store had any, way too much demand. Then there was no instructions on how much to take. Since this wasn't studies by drug companies but trial and error by each person. Here is what I have found that works extremely well every time. First I have found that I have no problems with taking large doses, it just works quicker. ALWAYS have a bottle handy, speed is important. I keep a bottle at home, at my office, AND in my car. The MOMENT I feel one start, I take a dose. A DOSE is 6 of the 500 mg size pills. Put 1 on each side back on back teeth, crunch them up, almost no taste, makes them faster acting, drink lots of water. remember, 6 crunched up pills per dose. Within 15 minutes you no longer feel the blister. AGAIN the moment you feel the blister again, take another dose. It may be in an hour or two, BUT the moment you feel it, take another full dose. Go by the feel of the blister only. If you can feel it after 15 or 20 minutes, take another dose. When done this way, I can totally whip an attack, and no one else can even see where the blister was starting. There is nothing to heal, its over and all gone. If they are coming again and again, after I whip it I take 1 or 2 tablets morning and night. I think I could take 1 pill per day and would never have an attack, But I only take them when I feel them coming. After reading this and thinking of people I have told about it, somehow many don't take enough or often enough. They still say that it helped. Another thing, Some called them cold sores and canker sores. I don't know if it is the same problem but it seems that the same solution might work. I sure wish I could get some feedback but that is not the way it is set up. Good luck.Read More Read Less