Stuckwithme
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I am happy to say I live in such a wonderful country like Sweden. We have a great tax and welfare system which means Botox treatment is free for me. I only have to pay $20 for the doctors appointment, that is all. I am welcome back for Botox treatment whenever I want. It makes me sad to see my fellow HH americans having to go through insurance trouble and some only having enough money to treat one hand and so on. My heart is bleeding for you, really 
Anyways, I suffer from palmoplantar hyperhydrosis (palms and feet) but I don't care about the feet. My HH is not so severe. It doesn't drip but my hands are almost always moist. I have learned to live with it even though it does reduce quality of life a lot at times. I can not for example say yes to a dance and so on. Sometimes I can't even cuddle with my girlfriend without feeling like a freak, but she don't care. She loves me regardless.
The worst thing with the treatment was the anaesthetic. It took 2 injections in each wrist and it was quite unpleasant. I could take it, no problem but I dont think Im very sensetive to pain. It was unpleasant too when the hands went numb. Weird feeling. To me it all felt like overkill so next time I'm not going to use any anaesthetic. Im either going to use a numbing cream called Emla or I am going to go totally natural. After all it isn't all that bad and the needles are small. It will hurt, no doubt but the treatment is over in a matter of minutes (1-2 minutes) and everyone with HH knows it is worth it.
After the treatment I could go home. But before that I discussed with the dermatologist about ETS and such and he told me not to do it. We didnt go any deeper into the subject but he just shook his head as if it is crazy stuff.
It would take 2 days for me to feel the effect he said and I am in on my second day now. Some say it takes up to 7 days so I will wait for a week until I know the full effect for sure, but I can already say it works great.
The hands are only a little, little..well not moist but not as smooth as the rest of the hand here and there, mainly between fingers and on the side of the palm but it is nothing almost. It's not wet, not moist but not as paper dry as the rest of the hands. I would say I got a 90-95% reduction.
It is a weird feeling. I expect my hands to sweat, I can feel my hands sweating but when I look and touch my hands are dry. Amazing. It really works great.
I can only pray to god it will last for at least 6 months. If it would last for 12 months I swear I could cry of happiness. And I really hope its effect will not be less and less for every treatment. Some say it last longer and longer for each treatment for some but others say it gets less and less. Oh well, I just have to wait and see.
I know I will be so disappointed if I would start to sweat again in a month or two so I have to live with the fact that this could happen. That is why Im not currently jumping up and down. I must wait and see.
I was walking through a hospital with my new born baby today and I was holding a paper during the whole visit. And it hit me that I was holding this paper without the paper becoming moist and wrinkled. My fingers were dry, the paper was dry...I couldnt believe myself.
I hope that, if this doesnt work, I won't feel even worse because of the fact that I cought a glimpse of the good life and forever will miss it. At least before I didnt know better.
Anyways, I suffer from palmoplantar hyperhydrosis (palms and feet) but I don't care about the feet. My HH is not so severe. It doesn't drip but my hands are almost always moist. I have learned to live with it even though it does reduce quality of life a lot at times. I can not for example say yes to a dance and so on. Sometimes I can't even cuddle with my girlfriend without feeling like a freak, but she don't care. She loves me regardless.
The worst thing with the treatment was the anaesthetic. It took 2 injections in each wrist and it was quite unpleasant. I could take it, no problem but I dont think Im very sensetive to pain. It was unpleasant too when the hands went numb. Weird feeling. To me it all felt like overkill so next time I'm not going to use any anaesthetic. Im either going to use a numbing cream called Emla or I am going to go totally natural. After all it isn't all that bad and the needles are small. It will hurt, no doubt but the treatment is over in a matter of minutes (1-2 minutes) and everyone with HH knows it is worth it.
After the treatment I could go home. But before that I discussed with the dermatologist about ETS and such and he told me not to do it. We didnt go any deeper into the subject but he just shook his head as if it is crazy stuff.
It would take 2 days for me to feel the effect he said and I am in on my second day now. Some say it takes up to 7 days so I will wait for a week until I know the full effect for sure, but I can already say it works great.
The hands are only a little, little..well not moist but not as smooth as the rest of the hand here and there, mainly between fingers and on the side of the palm but it is nothing almost. It's not wet, not moist but not as paper dry as the rest of the hands. I would say I got a 90-95% reduction.
It is a weird feeling. I expect my hands to sweat, I can feel my hands sweating but when I look and touch my hands are dry. Amazing. It really works great.
I can only pray to god it will last for at least 6 months. If it would last for 12 months I swear I could cry of happiness. And I really hope its effect will not be less and less for every treatment. Some say it last longer and longer for each treatment for some but others say it gets less and less. Oh well, I just have to wait and see.
I know I will be so disappointed if I would start to sweat again in a month or two so I have to live with the fact that this could happen. That is why Im not currently jumping up and down. I must wait and see.
I was walking through a hospital with my new born baby today and I was holding a paper during the whole visit. And it hit me that I was holding this paper without the paper becoming moist and wrinkled. My fingers were dry, the paper was dry...I couldnt believe myself.
I hope that, if this doesnt work, I won't feel even worse because of the fact that I cought a glimpse of the good life and forever will miss it. At least before I didnt know better.
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