Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 4:54 am Post subject: Does this help any or work for anyone?
I know how everyone feels about this condition. I had it suddenly out of nowhere durring my sophmore year of highschool i started having this condition on my hands and armpits. I spent SO much time on the internet seeing if there was a way to cure this. even tho I saw that botox and other few treatments were out there, i still kept searching. I would seem to be fine at night, not much sweating at all, but when i would wake up, i would be soaked. durring the day at school, sweat would suddenly just bead up and run down the side of my body, whenever i had a book in my hands, i would lift my fingers up and there was beads of sweat making my whole hand shiny. Every time i would go anywhere or do anything i would sweat all the time from my hands and armpits.
One night i read somewhere that someone was a business consultant and it really effected his career because he couldnt shake hands with his clients.
Here is what helped me: He said that he takes a few iron pills a few hours before he meets witha client and he seems to be fine. He said he eats a banana along with the pills so the potassium helps it digest better. I didnt know if any of that was true but i went to my local Target store and bought a bottle of Iron suppliments and a 'thing' is bananas. befoe i went to bed i took 1 iron suppliment and ate the banana. when i wokeup, i was dry, i didnt really believe it so i didnt think much of it. when I was at school i was sitting in physics waiting for my hansa to start sweating, nothing happened at all. same thing in my photography class, no sweat at all.
iron can be toxic tho if taken too much, so thats y i dont see how that guy kept taking as many as he could. I took the pills for about a week or 2 also eating the bananas with it.
Anyways, if someone wants to try this they can, just follow the directions on the bottle.
Also...i don't know if this was just a freak thing or not that it worked. I might have had secondary hyperhydrosis(HH caused by something else other than the 'regular' hh)
So you say you just took one iron tablet a day, with a banana and the sweating would cease completely? Do you still take them to this day and have the same effects?
I've got some iron tablets a home so i'll try it tonight
well idk if it stopped completly the first time, i just remember waking up and not being soaked in sweat. i took the tablet b4 i went to bed with a banana...also im pretty sure i took just one at night like u said, i dont think i took more or anything. i hope it works for other people also.
I stopped taking them after about a week or so from what I remember. I wish i would have kept a log or a journal or something that would have reminded me....so idk if it was something that just so happened to quit that same night that i took the iron pill or not.
i am looking for a solution for a problem i have currently(not HH) and i remember me having HH(even went to the docs and they said i had HH) and wanting to maybe help some ppl out if possible, i hope this isnt just a random thing that just worked for me.
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