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[h3][font=Verdana,Arial]Description of Hyperhidrosis[/font][/h3][font=Verdana,Arial]This condition is characterized by constitutional hyperactivity of the eccrine sweat glands. The disorder may be generalized, consisting of excessive body sweating, or localized, with sweating confined to the palms, soles, armpits, groin, and under the breasts.[/font]
[font=Verdana,Arial]As a rule, onset is in childhood or during puberty. Patients experience a heightened reaction to sweating stimuli such as anxiety, pain, exercise, tension, caffeine, and nicotine.[/font]
This runs in my family. My brother just had his surgery recently to stop the sweating and he says he feels like a new person, but now the otherhalf of his body that didn't sweat before (waist down) sweats a lot because the body tries to make up the lack of sweating up top. His armpits and handsused to literally drip from sweat. If he held a paper for more than 5 minutes it would soak in sweat.
Mine isn't quite as bad with my arms and hands but my face and my waist down sweat a lot. Sometimes while resting on my bed watching TV I'll startsweating profusely for no reason. In the morning when going to class, during the winter I would walk into class drenched in sweat from the little activity Idid walking from the car to class. Also, I would always wait to be the last one out of class because I would leave sweat marks on my seat. It's somethingreally embarrassing and hard to deal with. During the summer, after I shower and get ready to go out once I step outside I start sweating a lot, and by thetime I get to where I was going I feel like I just got done hoopin at the Y. I wake up almost every night with my pillow drenched. I sleep with a fan on orwindow open during winter. It really sucks having this, but I can't afford the surgery and it's not a common surgery in the U.S. I
So does anybody on NT suffer from the same thing? Suggestions or tips on how you've dealt with it? I doubt anybody on here has this, but I figured I'dask.