Iiiiinteresting thread. It's certainly not something that's generally talked about. It's quite embarrassing.
I don't even know if this is the same thing, but I had a bought of shirt-soaking sweating in my early-to-mid 20s. It was primarily my face, neck, and chest, and sometimes my hands. It seemed to occur from . . . I hesitate to say 'anxiety,' but some underlying angst. Lots of traumatic, ####ty things happened in my life starting when I was about 18, and that's pretty much exactly when the sweating began. Might be a coincidence, I don't really know.
For example when I would go to the dentist, I would be so tense sitting in that chair waiting for the pain to come, that I would be a mess before the freezing even went in. Or if I felt trapped in a line at the grocery store, I would begin to sweat like crazy. Then it became a self-perpetuating thing, where I would start sweating, then get panicky because I was sweating. Or I would begin to panic because I thought I was going to start sweating. Chicken or the egg?
Anyway, I couldn't do Botox because of drooping (or something) because it was a pretty large area I think. The dermatologist I saw (still see) ruled that out completely. Drysol was crap: if I put it on all the problem spots, I would sweat on my back, or my thighs, and eventually the sweat would burst through the Drysol like a failing dam.
I tried a medication called Rubinul which was BRUTAL for dry mouth. I got so many teeth cavities in the ~year period I was on it, oh my god . . . run for your lives.
Then I was put on a beta blocker for calming me, masking my heart beat. The one I'm on now is called Bisoprolol. The one before that was Propranolol. They work amazing. I feel 10-feet-tall and bulletproof. I could walk into a knife fight as calm and cool as a cucumber. Apparently surgeons and rockstars and etc. take it before they have to do their thing. I don't know, I ready that somewhere--probably Wikipedia.
Haven't had sweating problems for five or six years.
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