the BEST CURE-sympathotomy

snowball · Newbie User Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 1

[quote="david9"]Just had my surgery for my hyperhidrosis in my hands, armpits, and feet. All sweating has stopped!!!! Also, there is very little compensatory sweating. Go check out sympathotomy. I got it done at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.

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floods · Newbie User Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 2

I had the surgery and its been about 3 years and my hands are just as bad as they were before the surgery, iam so upset and i called Dr Garza (Houston) about a year after because thats when they started to sweat again and all he said was "sorry buddy", i was like wtf, he said to come in and he could give me another surgery or some shyt. I told him no and asked him what he could do for me, he precribed drysol and still to this day im wiping my hands my pants every 5 seconds, this really pisses me off because i paid so much for the surgery and got no results, i remember dude saying that surgery was like 99.9% sucessful...BS! Anyone else have Garza in Houston contact me please, id like to hear about.

Therover · Newbie User Joined: Apr 20, 2006 Posts: 13

yamilrx · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: Re: sympathotomy

jeff123 · Newbie User Joined: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 12

I am glad to hear that this has worked for many of you. I myself have axillary hyperhidrosis and will never have this surgery performed.

I have seen the British doctor with the most experience in the ETS surgery - some 23 years - and he very much directed me towards botox treatment.

As I understand it, the risk of compensatory sweating for the ETS surgery performed for hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet and face is less than that for axillary hyperhidrosis as the nerve must be cut at a different point.

Whatever your condition, I would really, really not go into this lightly. I am really happy to hear so many benefitting, but this operation could make your life ten times worse.

I myself had an operation to remove the hair bearing tissue under my arm pits to reduce the sweating and it worked absolutelty brilliantly for about 3 months and then came back again. I hope this isn't also the case with ETS.

mazegate · Newbie User Joined: Jun 25, 2006 Posts: 8

Think about what you're doing when you have sympathectomy. You are having an entire section of your nervous system removed. Obviously, that is NOT natural. It takes the body a while to adjust to this, which is why alot of ETS patients report side effects many years later, if not immediately.

Depending on which nerve-ganglion section is cut/cauterized/clamped (T2, T3, T4) and how YOUR body reacts to it- you will have compensatory sweating (too much sweating on your lower body) and NO ability to sweat on your upper body. How severe either of these bizarre side effects will effect you is anyone's guess. You could sweat buckets on your legs, buttocks, stomach even in mild heat. You could have ZERO ability to sweat on your head and face, even in extreme heat.

Are these potentially adverse health risks worth your trivial problem of excessive hand sweat or facial blushing (by the way it does NOT work for most facial blushers and usually makes it worse by causing more prolonged facial flushing). Also note that yes your hands will no longer sweat, but they will now be extremely dry. So dry that it's uncomfortable. Kind of like you always have that chalky feeling on your hands. And in the winter, it's brutal.

In my opinion, this surgery is not much different from the game Russian Roulette.

Examples of side effects not felt till a couple years after the ETS surgery:

Chest pains
Sharp pains in the heart
Constant headaches
Urinary incontinence
Severe acne
Severe dandruff
Trouble breathing
Stuffy nose
Dry burning eyes
Chronic fatigue
IBS