So, yes some treatments will work on most outbreaks but there will definitely be a stage of herpes simplex virus immune syndrome that will eventually make most all present day treatments ineffective. Simply meaning more you try to treat outbreaks with various medications sooner you will reach stage where no treatment will help.

You must also keep in mind that your present overall health conditions and other variables may temporarily slow or stop a remedy from working. So it may not always be virus but your present health condition that blocks any remedy from working what is your solution for cold sore outbreaks? If you have simple small split type sore just let it run course. Your body will develop antibodies to overpower virus outbreak which will help keep new outbreaks from happening so repeatedly.

However if you have major Mt Saint Helen's size outbreak then you can try various medications and treatments in hopes that you will hit right one.

A rule of thumb would be not to use remedies that you have recently used in past simply because of likelihood that virus has already become immune to it.

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Sleeping Environment:

Now, not all of us would enjoy 'correct' sleep cycle. If you suffer from insomnia, chances are, you might have a disrupted cycle. So, we need to 'persuade' your sleep-cycle on when is right time to sleep and wake.

To do that we need to lowered our body temperature. Low temperature makes one drowsy while high temperature makes one alert.

Creating an environment would give body low temperature (drowsy), sleep experts say that ideal room temperature is 65 to 70 degrees F. This would give your body low temperature to fall asleep.

To make sleep even more effective, we should encourage production of a chemical known as melatonin, which induces sleep.

A darkened room (darkness) would release melatonin. These two prong approach would slowly conditioned your body to feel drowsy for you to begin your sleep-cycle

Exercise:

To even better your sleep-cycle, you need to exercise, and preferably in daytime under sun. Exercising under sun contributes to raising your body temperature.

As a rule of thumb, if you maintain a high body temperature through day, as night approaches, your body temperature would drop and you would fall asleep easily (that's assuming that you want to sleep at night).

Go ahead and learn more about sleep disorder and quality sleep. Without reading this article, would you have known that sleeping more does not mean better rest or feeling more energetic? So, to effectively cure your insomnia and get more quality sleep, try to see insomnia as your enemy, something you need to know more in order to defeat it.

"Know thy enemy and know thyself, and you can win every battles"

Sun Tzu Art Of War