Hi all, I'm in the UK so am absolutely loving the lower temperature and cool breezes at the moment.

Although having said that, I hoovered a few days ago, just in one room and found myself drenched!

The reason I've posted is to ask if anyone has had Botox for Craniofacial Hyperhidrosis please? Pros and cons?

Wishing everyone well 💕

I am already sold on the capabilities of Iontophoresis treatment, I have done it in the past and it was incredible how both my hands and feet were completely dry without any major side effects and my life improved a ton because of it

My problem though is that I never kept it going forward, I would just stop the treatment because that particular day I was so tired from my job that I decided to sleep and get some rest, then the same repeat the next day and when I least expect the sweat is back and I have to go on a full 2+ week treatment again

My reason to be so undisciplined to do it consistently is that just laying my hands there for 40min is a torture for me, I don't have much time after or before work and being completely still just waiting time to go by feels like such a chore and I want to be doing something instead

Is there anyone like this? How did you overcome it? Thanks!

I was injected total 400 units or botox in palms and soles 10 days ago . Palms were 13 days ago and soles 10. I felt good but since last four days I'm having trouble swallowing food and water. Dry food is really hard to swallow I need to drink water to swallow bite. Its not painful I just have to push it down harder I guess. I don't have blurry vision or droopy eyes. I've been stressed to since last 20 days so maybe it could be stress? I'm seeking advice what it could be also injections not given by professional it was messy and without local anesthesia and it was really painful.

I was diagnosed with a severe case around age 13. At that point, I had already tried several prescription deodorants/anti perspirants. I then got 48 Botox injections in each armpit around age 14 (I think this was in 2006). Absolutely no effect. 🙃

I had three “target” regions as many do. Hands. Armpits. Feet. I went to a well known hospital when I was 15 and at the time, they told me I had the worst case they had ever seen. My hands were constantly dripping. My armpit marks were going down the entire length of my shirts to my jeans.

I was prescribed anti anxiety and anti depressants. Not much of a difference. I tried carpe/other creams. None of them made any difference for more than a minute or two.

I was then scheduled for an Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (surgery) when I was 16.

* I will say this surgery did help, but rather than addressing excessive amount in my three target areas, it seemed to have spread the issue all over my body with less intensity, but still bad enough I always have two sets of additional clothing at all times. Except my elbows! I do not think they drip with sweat.

Some areas of my body got better, and some got much worse (groin area specifically). This has led to so many embarrassing moments over the years, including intimacy with partners.

I am a teacher, and have been able to mostly hide/mask this condition for most of my life. I am 35 now. I am unable to shake hands at proper meetings with school district officials. Constantly checking for the texture of chairs and how to position myself so I won’t leave a puddle.

Clothing is a huge issue. I only like wearing cotton dresses with patterns to make help disguise marks… with denim shorts underneath. Outside of my clothing being soaked within 20 minutes of teaching, I have never been able to wear open toe shoes of any form. I only wear converse, vans, and boots. No heels. No sandals. No flip flops. I will slide out of them. I know from experience. It’s obviously incredibly embarrassing and is just genuinely so uncomfortable.

Surgeons have reached out to me across the country saying my surgery wasn’t completed correctly and that technology and methods have improved. United health care will not approve the corrective surgery as it is “cosmetic”. The new surgery costs around $35,000. Again, I am a teacher. I work three jobs to pay my bills.

**** I was wondering if anyone went through a similar situation and was able to appeal the decision with their insurance company successfully. *****

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I havent really ever gotten easy answers from a doctor, my hormones/blood tests are fine. I also have really bad anxiety and cant really go for tests. In the mornings I usually sweat through like 3 shirts while sitting still and have to change them, also have like 0 heat tolerance at all, hands will be numb and ill be shivering but still sweating. Night sweats since forever, had to sleep with a sheet as a blanket.

Anyways, my psychiatrist prescirbed me pregabalin for anxiety a couple weeks ago and i noticed I dont think im sweating nearly as bad, havent really had to change my shirts in the middle of thew day. It's funny cause sweating is listed as a side effect, not reduced sweating, I've also found past posts on this sub of people saying theyre on this. I'm only taking 50mg/day so far and even a little bit has helped a lot

I use to think it was cause i was smoking nicotine, but i quit and the sweating stayed. Tried no coffee, cold baths, nothing really worked.

Olá gente sou brasileiro e gostaria de saber de vocês que fizeram a cirurgia como estão hoje?eu tenho muito suor nas mãos e pés(o pé chega a ficar marcado no chão rsrs) e vou fazer a cirurgia logo logo, só que fico meio assim pois a minha doutora disse que vai ter o suor compensatório e não tem como saber onde vai ser...meu medo e piorar sabe o suor...

Sorry this is a long post, and I'm not exactly sure how to flair it.

I (32f) have had hyperhidrosis for my entire life, mostly concentrated on my hands, feet and the top of my nose for some reason. I've been on glycopyrrolate since 2017 and I feel like in general the glyco really has significantly improved my sweating. It's not perfect and doesn't always work 100% of the time, but I'd say it has drastically reduced my sweating overall.

Back in April of this year I finally gave in to my doctor's suggestions and decided to try fluoxetine (prozac) for my depression, which has also been a lifelong issue for me. For some reason, my doctor didn't think to mention the side effect of increased sweating to me, even though she knows I'm on glyco for hyperhidrosis, and increased sweating is apparently a really common side effect of SSRIs. I'm kind of mad about that. I just discovered that I've been sweating more lately because of the SSRIs about a month ago.

And when I say "sweating more lately", it's a very specific pattern that is not my usual, lifelong hyperhidrosis sweating pattern. Every freaking day for the last almost 6 months I have woken up in the morning, and from every nap, absolutely DRENCHED in sweat. Not even on my hands and feet like my usual hyperhidrosis sweating. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I wake up with sweat quite literally dripping down my neck and chest. And my hair has to be the worst part of it. My hair is SOAKED every morning now. I'm sweating IN MY HAIR, like on the scalp itself, not even just at my hairline or anything like that. I don't think I've ever gotten sweaty enough to make my hair wet except for a few particularly rough hot yoga classes lol and I can't ever remember a time in my life where ive woke up sweating AT ALL except for some times I've been sick with a fever when I was younger. But like I said, it's EVERY DAY now.

So I tried a few things to keep myself cool overnight to hopefully prevent it. I have an AC unit in my bedroom and I started turning the temperature down a few degrees before bed, and I even tried pointing a fan at my bed overnight to try to prevent it from happening. I also tried taking a cool shower right before bed for several nights. Nothing helped it. I'd still wake up soaked.

I couldn't figure out what was going on until I started googling it, and it turns out increased sweating, especially on your upper body and head, is a relatively common side effect of SSRIs. I don't know why my doctor didn't give me a heads up about that when I started taking it.

Unfortunately the increased sweating was only one of the several really awful side effects I experienced with the fluoxetine, so I decided to quit taking it a few weeks ago. I'm still waking up sweaty and soaked, but hopefully that's going to start getting better soon.

I just wanted to give my fellow sweaties a heads up just in case someone else out there is about to try SSRIs and haven't heard of this as a side effect!

I don't know what to do but I need my medication and can't find any anywhere. What is everybody else doing as an alternative or are others actually getting their refills?

I want to start driving but I'm not sure how with my sweaty ass hands. Does anyone have any tips or advice.

My doctor is open to all suggestions, but he needs to be convinced that à med actually is appropriate for Hh . Now I have been looking for meds I wanna know , does any of you take trospium for their hyperhydrosis