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I've been away from this forum for a while. I started my GCSEs last September and had a lot of family problems going on, but now I'm back. I had been doing iontophoresis on my hands and feet and it was working, but I stopped doing it for a while because of other things. I find it really time...

Well iontophoresis is working to some effect but it is incredibly time consuming especially with lots of revision :( So I went to the GP today and hopefully, fingers crossed, I should hands or underarms or both. I'm being referred privately as we have BUPA. At the moment they are willing to pay...

Hi I've been doing iontophoresis for a couple of months now and I did it on my feet earlier this evening and when I tried to do it on my hands it wouldn't work, so the batteries are most likely dead. I was just wondering, missing a treatment on my hands won't effect the result will it? I...

Hi I have a passion for writing, and now I've decided to write a diary type book based on Hyperhidrosis. I was going to make the character and her life completely fictional but base her hyperhidrosis 'battle' on my own personal experiences. This is something that I really want to do, because I...

I am so happy at the moment..because I have actually managed to last a day without sweating that much. So, I do sweat the occasional amount but it's not really noticeable. It is such a relief to actually be able to not have my jumper or blazer over my hand when I do my work in school. I've been...

Right now, I am considering botox for excessive underarm sweating. I have been looking around sites and have been given a quote of £395. I was wondering if anyone knows if this cost can be covered by insurance?

Has anyone heard of this or had it done. I was referred to a specialist privately after going to see my GP (since we have BUPA) and went to see him a while ago. He mentioned the Chemical Lumbar Sympathectomy as something to look into for the feet hyperhidrosis if Iontophoresis failed to work on...