Yup, let's talk about sweating more than is required for the body to keep cool.
I know it's not something that is talked about in public because it's quite embarrassing, but I imagine with an active community of over 3700 folks here that someone else would have this problem.
I'm here to tell my story in case someone else doesn't know where to go to get treatment. Since I don't particularly want to announce this in public to anyone but my fiancee, I thought I would highly recommend this treatment on CalgaryPuck to anyone else who may be going through the same thing.
Anyways, I sweat, a lot. Much more than is considered normal. I sweat when sitting on the couch watching TV. I sweat immediately after getting out the shower. I sweat non stop at work. And then, I sweat when others are expected to sweat, but a lot more. Despite being able to hide it by wearing lots of black or moisture wicking shirts, it was still uncomfortable to go about a day to day routine, and many of my shirts were ruined pretty quickly with antiperspirant stains.
So, after getting tired of going through black golf shirt after black golf shirt, and multiple changes of clothes a day, I decided to do something about it. Upon the recommendation of my fiancee's co-worker, I went to Vive Rejuvenation to get treatment. What they do is inject Botox into the armpits, around sweat glands, which temporarily blocks the signals to your sweat glands to sweat. 3 days later and the sweating is completely gone. The nurse advised that this treatment works for 4-6 months for most people.
So, that's my story. Hopefully someone out there can be helped by reading this!
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I heard something not too long ago about Botox being used for this. Has it only been three days? Have you tried working out to see if you get too hot or any swelling in the area? How much $ for the treatment?
and you really didn't emphasize the discomfort enough, especially in winter when layers are required. I'll be all over this as long as there isn't any side effects that I get when I use Drysol.
If you don't sweat out of you pits, aren't you sweating elsewhere instead? [Edit: I googled this and it seems that only 5% of people report increased sweating elsewhere after treatment. Another question Id have is whether you noticed any impact when you are physically active in warm or hot conditions?]
You mention antiperspirant. Antiperspirant doesn't work for many people including myself. It actually makes me sweat more which if you google it, seems to be pretty common. For me its deodorant only. If you're healthy, practice good hygiene and wear clean clothes then you should never have issues with B.O.
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If you don't sweat out of you pits, aren't you sweating elsewhere instead?
You mention antiperspirant. Antiperspirant doesn't work for many people including myself. It actually makes me sweat more which if you google it, seems to be pretty common. For me its deodorant only. If you're healthy, practice good hygiene and wear clean clothes then you should never have issues with B.O.
Hyperhidrosis is sweating in excess of the amount needed to regulate body heat, so no you don't sweat other places when you don't sweat out of your pits (not that I have noticed anyway).
Deodorant over antiperspirant (if your comment is true) isn't really an option for people with excessive sweating. It isn't about BO, it's about trying to manage the wetness.
This can be caused by things like food allergies. Try pulling things like gluten, caffeine, and alcohol out of you diet. If you smoke you should also consider quitting that. I quit smoking and gluten and I don't suffer from this condition anymore. When I have too much caffeine it will come back for short term.
Try adding Drysol to your personal hygiene regiment. It's an extra strong antiperspirant. Can picked up at most drug stores.
Very interesting, I have excessive sweat out of my right armpit, just began a few months ago but very consistent. What is the cost of these injections?
I heard something not too long ago about Botox being used for this. Has it only been three days? Have you tried working out to see if you get too hot or any swelling in the area?
I received this last Wed, so it's day 6. No side effects that I've noticed anyways, and the armpit sweating is completely gone.
The actual treatment itself was relatively painless. There were a few injections that hurt like hell on the each side, most likely because they injected close to a nerve. Those injection sites ended up with small bumps almost immediately, and some small bruising a few days later. I did also have a little bit of arm stiffness for the next few days. All symptoms I had were similar to when you receive a flu shot, and the nurse did advise me that some bruising would occur before she gave me the treatment though.
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This can be caused by things like food allergies. Try pulling things like gluten, caffeine, and alcohol out of you diet.
For me, I found that the healthier I got, the sweating got worse. In fact, I noticed when I had a regular gym routine the sweating picked up, and part of the reason I quit the gym was due to the increase in sweating. For me, alcohol was actually the only thing that stopped the sweating.
Also, I don't think I have the mental fortitude to give up alcohol or caffeine completely. So, injections it is!
I used to have it in the pits pretty bad. Drysol pretty much solved it. I used it daily for a while when I was about 20, and then dropped down to maybe once a month for a while, and now haven't used it in probably 8 years.
The hands are what get me. I dread any situation in work that requires a handshake and avoid them at all costs, which has probably made me look rude on many occasions.
I read up recently on iontophoresis which seems to be effective, and pretty easy for hands and feet. Machines cost around $1000, but you can make your own for less than $100 and many have posted good results:
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.
Let's talk about hyperhidrosis
