What remedy have you found most successful for hyperhidrosis?
Topical Applications - Driclor, Odaban etc
41%
[ 50 ]
Oral Medications - Ditropan, Probanthine..
10%
[ 13 ]
Iontophoresis
21%
[ 26 ]
Botox
5%
[ 7 ]
Diet
6%
[ 8 ]
Herbal
1%
[ 2 ]
ETS surgery
7%
[ 9 ]
Other surgery, e.g. liposuction, removal of sweat glands
4%
[ 6 ]
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teandtoast Intermediate User
Joined: Feb 19, 2007 Posts: 105
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject:
Pinker wrote:
teandtoast: Good to hear probanthine is working for you. I had similar side effects and it was pretty rough. Do the conventional 20% antiperspirants not have any effect on your underarms?
well the roll ons used to work when i first started using them years ago but now they do fck all and the pain and not being able to get to sleep from using them just made them not worth while.
Seems probanthine only works well to some extent...went into town last night to hot club and arms didnt hold upto well....shame!
Seems only works well when sat down for say long periods in kinda cool settings such as work, mates etc
I'm seriously considering getting Tumescent Liposuction...would eliminate sweating & BO, is just trying to find a surgery in the UK that does it. Bupa do it for roughly £3500 but only costs £700 in the US so is trying to find a private health clinic in UK which would do it cheaper (which I know some people have found).
Fed up of this condition limiting my daily life and activities (which it shouldn't blah blah but unfortunately it does).
teandtoast: Good to hear probanthine is working for you. I had similar side effects and it was pretty rough. Do the conventional 20% antiperspirants not have any effect on your underarms?
well the roll ons used to work when i first started using them years ago but now they do fck all and the pain and not being able to get to sleep from using them just made them not worth while.
Seems probanthine only works well to some extent...went into town last night to hot club and arms didnt hold upto well....shame!
Seems only works well when sat down for say long periods in kinda cool settings such as work, mates etc
I'm seriously considering getting Tumescent Liposuction...would eliminate sweating & BO, is just trying to find a surgery in the UK that does it. Bupa do it for roughly £3500 but only costs £700 in the US so is trying to find a private health clinic in UK which would do it cheaper (which I know some people have found).
Fed up of this condition limiting my daily life and activities (which it shouldn't blah blah but unfortunately it does).
That's interesting that they stopped working, I haven't had that happen yet but I don't use it very often, maybe once a fortnight. To stop the itching though, if you dry your underarms with a hairdrier after you've rolled it on that should do the trick. It's also important not to apply too much.
I had the same experience with probanthine. At first it worked really well.. probably too well because I couldn't even eat without water. But then it seemed to stop working, whether I took it in the morning or afternoon, with food or without food it just didn't seem to work again. Very strange..
If you could afford the liposuction procedure that would probably resolve the issue. Though comparing them i've read that 'curretage' surgery is a better option because it doesn't allow the sweat glands the chance to grow back at all. There may be more effective liposuction treatments now, I don't really know. I have seen curretage on a list when I saw a dermatologist which leads me to believe they perform it on the NHS. The best thing to do would be to see a dermatolgist or another specialist to discuss the possibilities.
teandtoast: Good to hear probanthine is working for you. I had similar side effects and it was pretty rough. Do the conventional 20% antiperspirants not have any effect on your underarms?
well the roll ons used to work when i first started using them years ago but now they do fck all and the pain and not being able to get to sleep from using them just made them not worth while.
Seems probanthine only works well to some extent...went into town last night to hot club and arms didnt hold upto well....shame!
Seems only works well when sat down for say long periods in kinda cool settings such as work, mates etc
I'm seriously considering getting Tumescent Liposuction...would eliminate sweating & BO, is just trying to find a surgery in the UK that does it. Bupa do it for roughly £3500 but only costs £700 in the US so is trying to find a private health clinic in UK which would do it cheaper (which I know some people have found).
Fed up of this condition limiting my daily life and activities (which it shouldn't blah blah but unfortunately it does).
That's interesting that they stopped working, I haven't had that happen yet but I don't use it very often, maybe once a fortnight. To stop the itching though, if you dry your underarms with a hairdrier after you've rolled it on that should do the trick. It's also important not to apply too much.
I had the same experience with probanthine. At first it worked really well.. probably too well because I couldn't even eat without water. But then it seemed to stop working, whether I took it in the morning or afternoon, with food or without food it just didn't seem to work again. Very strange..
If you could afford the liposuction procedure that would probably resolve the issue. Though comparing them i've read that 'curretage' surgery is a better option because it doesn't allow the sweat glands the chance to grow back at all. There may be more effective liposuction treatments now, I don't really know. I have seen curretage on a list when I saw a dermatologist which leads me to believe they perform it on the NHS. The best thing to do would be to see a dermatolgist or another specialist to discuss the possibilities.
Sorry I did mean liposuction with curettage...that's meant to be the best option. Sounds interesting you say youve seen it on a list...may have to look into that. Thing is I don't think is a very common procedure so youd really want someone who had some experience of it and new exactly what they were doing so got right.
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject: Which Product is best
Hi Pinker, Thanks a lot for the tons of information you and others have provided... For the longest time i didnt know that this was such a common problem... I am a girl in my early 30s and I would always wear dark colored clothes since with the lighter shades would show all the sweat.
At this point I am only looking for topical solutions and I see that there are a few products listed..Can you please let me know which ones might be the best.. i noticed some people mentioned MegaDry, Odaban and sweat-stop.. any advise would be much appreciated.
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: Re: Which Product is best
HHsuffering wrote:
Hi Pinker, Thanks a lot for the tons of information you and others have provided... For the longest time i didnt know that this was such a common problem... I am a girl in my early 30s and I would always wear dark colored clothes since with the lighter shades would show all the sweat.
At this point I am only looking for topical solutions and I see that there are a few products listed..Can you please let me know which ones might be the best.. i noticed some people mentioned MegaDry, Odaban and sweat-stop.. any advise would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Hey, you're welcome
Is it underarm sweating only that is the problem? To be honest with you they are all very similar. I would go for either Odaban (which has lots of positive feedback) or a basic roll on like maxim, drysol etc. I just think megadry and sweat-stop seem very expensive when all the products are essentially very similar.
If you need any help just post here again. There's certain ways of applying the topical solutions to make them work best.
Hi everybody, I am from Singapore. After many tries, I finally managed to register myself here and now can participate in this forum!
As far as I know, none of the products listed here for treatment on palmer hh is available in Singapore. Either we have to bring it in ourself or through friends living aboard.
I recently chance upon this forum and read with great interest the success stories, especially those who have done some modifications or even make their own machine. I do have a few questions here maybe fellow forum members can share.
Since the treatment is mainly sending electric current to the palms. The water in the trays act as the conductors for the current. What is the different if the current is being sent via pads (similar to those used by the electric acupuncture machine). Don't our skin act as conductor too?
After reading this forum, I used a standard off the shelves electric massage machine with those pads to try out. I can feel the electric current through both my palms even to the finger tips. If this failed, maybe I can remove the pads and connect the wire straight to 2 aluminum plates and place them into 2 plastic trays?
I can't really answer your question but I was hoping someone else could.
I don't think water is essential in iontophoresis, because a "Dry-Type" iontophoresis machine was actually trialed and was successfull. This hasn't been available to the public to my knowledge so it's anyones guess how it worked. I presume you rest your hands on some metal and the current travels through to the hand. Underarm iontophoresis pads which are available use a material which you need to soak in water, so in this case this does rely on water.
It would be nice if some kind of specialist was able to answer our questions on here.
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