My girlfriend of the past year has had cold sores since she was a child. She's had 2 since we've been together. We've been very careful not to kiss, drink, eat or share anything from the moment she feels one coming on.

Sat night I went drinking (today's Tues). Sunday I woke with a terrible hangover (low immune system) & I got my period (hormones) by the end of that day I noticed a chapped-like circle on my upper lip.

I felt no tingling or burning or itching before getting it and I haven't since. It looks like a chapped lip, a little cracked and dry (no discoloration) but it's in a circle (like a cold sore). It also looks a little puffy

I started using abbreva scared I had gotten a cold sore. Nothing has started to blister, no fluid filling pockets, just this circle. It looked to me, not my gf, that there was another smaller circle on the other side of my lip.

Anyone ever heard of a cold sore that looks or acts like this? Or chapped lips? I'm freakin out a bit. Can someone help?