do you think there will ever be a cure?

hinder87

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something like ets but gets rid of hh completely without any side effects. i hope so within the next 10 years. :(
 

Remus

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yeah Botox seems to be the new thing, painful with those injections, we had a TV program over here called "Embarrassing Bodies" where doctors go aorund the country treating people with illnesses the pateint deems as "embarrassing" a teenage girl sweated so much it was big wet patches under her arms going around to her back (and it wasnt warm weather), she had botoz injections and weeks later was so happy as symptoms vanished!!!!

http://www.channel4embarrassingillnesses.com/about/episodes/teen-bodies/am-i-normal/

Dr Pixie meets 19-year-old Charlotte, whose dream job as an airline stewardess has been grounded by a bad case of hyperhidrosis that leaves her clothes soaking.

you can catch up on the ep[isode from this page, the part you want to view was somewhere in the middle of the episode
 

teandtoast

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remus - botox isnt a cure ....it doesnt last long ..n doesnt totally stop the sweating i know alot find

liposuction or curretage for underarm sweating is pretty much guaranteed to be a solution / cure
 

klamm76

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject:
The only real cure is yourself...

Eh,ZumasZika sorry so say this,but that sounded a bit arrogant.This is a disease,,,you maybe say this to canser,HIV,heartpatients too?

Glad your fine good for you:)
 

GloomySunday

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It obviously depends upon the type of sweating that you have. I think a "cure" for the overall condition may be too much to hope for, but there are certainly many ways now to alleviate or hide the symptoms.

My face used to sweat profusely whenever I was in a situation that made me even slightly nervous. When I was alone it never used to happen, so I know it was purely mental and there was nothing "biologically" wrong with me.

Now that I use products like Anhydrol Forte and Odaban on my face, I simply cannot, physically sweat there. Even when I do sports, it just doesn't happen. Because of this, I am now doing things that I otherwise would have avoided.

Last Saturday, for example, I went out for a meal with some friends. It was a very small table and we were all crowded round it, pretty much in each other's faces. Normally, that would have set me off (it's happened before) but because I knew, no matter what, that I wouldn't sweat (and I didn't) I felt at ease.

Over time, doing more things like that, my mind may adjust and realise that the things that made me nervous are nothing to be nervous about at all. So, I guess I'm reconditioning my thinking through exposure to situations and people and that may be a "cure" of sorts.
 

Jezza

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I think there will be...But nobody could do anymore then guess about the timeframe. A positive thing about that IMO is that while HH has probably existed for ages, people have only started really learning about it with the introduction of internet and patients finding each other on the net realizing they have the same problem. Before that, since HH is quite rare, usually people with HH were treated as single/isolated cases because HH wasn't on most doctors' radar. There are some studies around about HH from decadades ago (for instance, I've read about a guy who was a military general or something like that who had palmar HH decades ago, he got prescribed atropine -which is an anticholinergic like robinul, however one that easily crosses the blood/brain barrier- for when he had some official business so he could shake hands and stuff) but these studies were not nearly as widespread as they are today.

I think that in the future people will gather more knowledge about the process of sweating. Now, we still not know yet where HH originates. Is it a problem of the endocrine system? and if so what gland(s) are affected and how? Or maybe it's the nerves themselves that are malfunctioning somehow...One of the problems is that as people now know so much about the human body, medics can easily make the mistake of knowing everything and therefore don't look any further then protocol tells them to.
 

tiny83

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It's true that there is being more attention focused on HH and that it's real. The first and foremost, is that some insurance companies in the US cover treatments for it which means it is truly a condition since insurance could be a pain and selective on what they consider to be covered (not sure about in other countries). And yes, people like us, seeing how many there are and internet research.

If the treatments are getting broader and more common (i can't believe how many people my derm group sees w/HH! When I went to discuss Botox treatment, some of the docs and medical assistants and other office personnel said they get it themselves!) something has to give.

I'm sure as time goes on, there will be more options and possibly a cure or something. Just think now though, how lucky we are to have some options. When I first started really sweating in hands and underarms, it didn't seem so important at the time, but when i was in 8th grade, highschool, there probably was nothing I could've done for it, not until college and beyond where I started noticing it affected my life more, and at least got Drysol. And people who dont have as severe HH, there are now stronger deoderants there were not around.

I think we have to at least be happy with what we have for now and hope for more in the future!
 
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