Hyper-Hydrosis; how do you deal with it

[Gigabomber]

My hands used to get quite sweaty, but i never had a name for it before. I used to swat mainly during tests though I perform well on average. I only noticed when my hands wet the textbooks, but as i've learned to calm down more on average each day, it has been less of a problem though. I suppose my feet do get quite hot too, but none of this has been too big of a problem, though my right armpit did get affected by the stress sometimes.
oh yeah! the first time I ever noticed it was when I was playing pool at a friends house. I noticed that my hands always got very wet and caused the pool cue to drag: I always wondered why no one else seemed to have the problem.
Thankfully it wasn't too chronic of a condition for me.

 

[redshifter]

a couple summers ago i got a bad case of heat stroke whilest staying in tuscany, italy. ever since then i've had excessive sweat, mostly just on my chest and head. it is a huge pain to constantly be wiping sweat off my brow. right now i wear a coolmax joggers cap to soak it up. i went from almost never sweating even after excersizing to excessive sweating even just picking up the living room in 4 weeks. sucks.

 

[saab]

I am sure this is not as related asa I think, but many nights I sweat something fierce when I sleep. I often wake up in the night laying in sweat soaked sheets. As you can imagine, my wife does not find this too appealing, nor do I.

Anyways, best of luck with your sweating; it looks like you are not alone.
-John

 

[lini]

saab: That sometimes happens to me, too. It usually occurs when I've eaten too much too late in the evening, it seems. But I've also found that with ongoing age I obviously got more sensitive to cold - so when it gets cold outside I found that I should rather sleep with my window closed and maybe even the heating turned up a bit than using more and thicker blankets, no heating and having my window open a bit (which I've generally prefered in former times and still do when it's warmer outside), 'cause that seems to give me a more relaxing and sweatless sleep... Other variables to check might be the type of mattress, material of blankes et cetera, distance to wife...

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini

 

[BlindTiger]

Don't know much about hyper hidrosis except for what I've found on the internet. My mom's thoracic surgeon also does ETS surgery for palmer HH patients. Looks like there's good and bad from what I've read in the hyper hidrosis forums. (there's a few forums for people with hyper hidrosis)

 

[hubcaps]

I heard something the other day about using botox for people with excessive sweating. I'm guessing it kills some of the glands, but I think it can only be used in certain areas like the pits (not too sure about that though).

 

[South_Korean]

the surgeory sounds like a dream to me.... my sweating is ridiculous, liek if i show up at one of those meets you guys have, just the heat from the equipment would result with me in a shirt that looks like i pulle dit out of the washing machine in the middle of it cycle. i honestly cant manage this. drysol is seriously not doing it for me and its expensive as it is. if this does get better with age ill buy you all a pair of grados (just kidding muahaha).

has anyone had the surgeory yet? if so how did it turn out? was it painful in any way? did it even work?

 

[apnk]

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Originally Posted by Edwood I sweat pretty easily too (not to hyper-hydrosis levels), but living in a drier climate helps alot. Also one benefit I've found with sweating more easily is not having bad BO easily. -Ed

yeah come and live in Idaho, dry as hell here.

 

[MD1032]

My hands sweat a lot and when I work, I do get extremely sweaty, but I am fortunate in that I don't have any problems with BO or anything. But it's still annoying because I'm afraid to shake peoples' hands. Maybe the next time I see my dermatologist I'll see if I can get a Drysol perscription out of him. Not to mention this affects my bari sax playing (keys are metal and slippery).

 

[South_Korean]

i know what you mean, i play trumpet, and i have sort of a marble looking finish on the keys and its hard to play when you have slippery keys lol.

 

[aznsensazian]

Wow, so there is a community of hyperhidrosis diagnosed folks. Ive been suffering from palmer and plantar hyperhidrosis since my early teens. Im now 22 and it hasnt gotten any better. It can happen when you least know it. Some days ill be okay and my palms will not sweat as much, then other days my palms look like tiny waterfalls. This condition has made me very anxious and nervous around certain social situations. Dating can be a disaster and just holding hands in a church event can become stressful and nerve-wrecking. For some reason in the back of my mind, i imagine the people's faces turning sour as im holding hands with or shaking hands with and this thought usually causes me to avoid handshakes and group church events as much as possible. Taking tests sometimes can be bad too. I remember when i was 13 taking a science test and my paper that i was writing the answers on was all drenched from sweat. I mean there was no dry spot on sight and the more that i saw what was happening the more my palms sweat. My teacher saw the paper and asks what happened to my paper. I couldnt explain to her because i knew she wouldnt understand.

In the end, i turned in my paper anyways, but there were holes from trying to write on the soaked filled paper. I still suffer from it today, but i guess im learning to live with it and find ways to less trigger it as possible. Ive used every medicine you can think of, drysol, drionic devices, herbal, pills, eating less hot foods(someone mention to me that this wood work), but none of them has worked. The drionic helped a little, but i still sweat prefusely. Im going to do the surgery once im done graduating and get a real job. I heard the surgery only takes a half an hour and you can leave the same day. The procedure is like 99% safe if performed by a well certified surgeon. Im not sure how much this sort of procedure costs, although i do know that most health insurances cover the procedure. I say that if you dont think about your situation, then the sweating will become less of an issue. I find that in most cases it can be a phychological problem.

 

[breez]

Aha! I've never heard of this before, but now I realize that I probably have a mild case. My palms sweat when I (excitedly) concentrate on something. It's not bad, but slightly annoying. Also when doing sports my face tends to sweat a whole lot!

Quick google shows that facial blushing is somehow connected to hyperhidrosis and I have that too. This one has been a little more problematic as it is immediately noticeable. I've just learned to cope with it (when it comes, just acknowledge it and stop thinking about it). Still an annoyance with school presentations etc. if it hits me.

 

[DJ Mauler]

that sucks, my buddy who was a linebacker in HS would sweat when he waled up some steps. granted he was 275 and built like a tank...

 

[South_Korean]

aznsensazian, gl with the surgeory, but be warned, i heard the body makes up for the loss of sweat.

 

[aznsensazian]

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Originally Posted by South_Korean aznsensazian, gl with the surgeory, but be warned, i heard the body makes up for the loss of sweat.

Yeah, ive read everything there is about hyperhidrosis and research quite extensively. There is a possibility of compensatory sweating after the surgery where the sweating shifts below the torso to make up for the loss of sweat above it. I honestly think this is a fair trade, as the hands and face are more exposed and cause the most embarrassing of social moments. In most patients who undergo the procedure develop mild conpensatory sweating and is tolerable. Only a handful of cases where patients have severe CS where their lower body would be drenched in sweat that becomes noticiable.