Scalp/facial sweating treatments?

Hi everyone - I have suffered from excessive forehead/scalp/hair line sweating for only the past couple of years - it had never, ever been a problem for me until recently. It's making social situations completely obnoxious for me.

About a year ago, when I pretty much failed to get a job because during the interview I had sweat trickling down my face, I said, "that's enough, I need to do something because this is seriously affecting my life."

I've been on Botox treatment for about 6 months and while it works fairly well, it doesn't do enough of the trick, because if my entire head is sweating, I'd need about 400 injections to completely cover it and pretty much end up looking like this at the dermatologist: http://images.art.com/images/-/Hellraiser---Pinhead--C10040177.jpeg

Anyway, I'm starting to look for a topical solution and wondered if anyone had luck with Odaban, as that seems to be just about the only solution for facial/cranial sweating (I don't mind sweating in other places because dates and job interviewers can't see those areas - unless the date goes well! *rim shot*

I've read about some sort of wipes, but they only seem to be offered in the UK, and the shipping/cost for them is like a car payment. (Just a quick question here - why does it seem as though everything innovative in terms of hyperhidrosis comes from Canada and the UK...do people not have sweat glands in America?)

Anyway, I'm totally new here and any fellow facial/scalp sweaters' advice would be totally appreciated. Thanks!

i just looked at that picture and don't understand why you wouldn't want that done. it looks like a lot of fun.

Hey man some people are into that ;-)

Famial sweating and Panic?

Does anyone find that facial sweating sometimes brings on a Panic Attack?

This happens to me, but not every time. I usually sweat alot of my face if I am doing something strenuous. But I can break out into a panic attack if I start sweating in a social situation because I am building up anxiety in my mind that I might sweat. This leads to a vicious cycle. However, Avert and the Secure Wipes have really come in handy to help with this problem.

Thanks for any input.

I actually ordered the Maxim Sensitive wipes for the face/scalp/neck area. I have to say, I’ve only tried them once and they worked really well. They don’t just try up the area you wipe, they actually seem to penetrate a bit and make the general region dry right out. For example, I used it across the hairline, behind the ears, back of the neck, etc, and I ended up with a little cotton mouth. Which is a fantastically tolerable side effect when compared with looking like I was just hit with a water balloon 50 times in the head.

Anyway – I’ve heard a lot about other topical stuff…again I’m just looking for facial/scalp relief here, people don’t stare at your feet or lower back during a job interview, etc, but does anyone have a favorite they use or have you compared Maxim with anything else on the market?

hang on, you got cotton mouth just from using the wipes on your face? wow. so what have people found works best for their face? maxim? secure wipes? avert?

did it give you dry skin? when i get nervous my face is the first thing to sweat and i'd like to stop that, but i don't want to have aligator skin.

i'm vain. so sue me.

Secure wipes contain glycopyrrolate, which is an anticholergenic which can give you a dry mouth, eyes.. it won't be as pronounced as in oral form though. Just search the forums to find out more.

drysol!!!

I think the cotton mouth was a placebo affect.

Let me say this. I’ve had some Botox treatments, with lots of needles and while it’s really not painful, each injection only covers about 1.2 cm in diameter, so really, if you’re sweating from a large area like the scalp/face/head, Botox is simply not going to help. It’s kind of an expensive joke to be honest with you.

However – I’ve been reading a lot about drysol and if you Google it, you’ll realize it has amazingly positive reviews. Words like “miracle” and “changed my life” are used very often, to the point where I figured the pharmaceutical company that makes the product was just asking their employees to post positive things about it on the Net to make it appear that it’s a miracle solution.

Well, I asked my dermatologist about it – and he wrote me a prescription, with the stern warning that applying to broken skin will make me hit the ceiling like a cat that just had a brick of firecrackers lit next to it.

Anyway, I tried it, rubbed it on my scalp and forehead and it only tingled a bit. I even said to myself, “wow, now I can see why you don’t need a prescription in other countries – this is nothing.”

15 minutes later I realized why you need a prescription. My head definitely started to itch. A lot. It wasn’t unbearable by any means, and to be honest, if you picture you more embarrassing sweating moments, most of us would probably roll around naked in a patch of poison ivy if we were told it was going to fix it.

Anyway, this stuff itches and burns a bit for about 1.5  2 hours. Then it basically goes away. So apply it at night but not right before bed or you will not be able to sleep. The directions indicate to apply before bed so 1). It will stay on for a while uninterrupted, and 2). That’s when you typically sweat the least. I don’t know about you guys, but sometimes I sweat in my sleep especially during the summer, so applying this stuff a few hours before bed, or ANY time when you’re going to sweat the least would work just fine.

I woke up the next morning, and worked out on the hottest day of the summer so far. I was floored. Just like all the reviews you read about this, it’s almost freaky how well it works. My t-shirt, legs, whatever were very sweaty as they should be for anyone working out in the heat, but my head, was totally and completely dry. Not one trickle, not one BEAD of sweat. I read an anecdote about drysol before using it where a woman who worked out in the gym actually had some stranger next to her touch her armpit because she couldn’t believe how bone dry it was.

Long story short – this stuff works – it works incredibly, unbelievably well. It works so well I can’t believe every dermatologist around the country isn’t sending their sweaty clients out the door with it, along with a wish list of birthday presents for the next 10 years in anticipation of gratitude from the person suffering from excessive sweat.

If you research drysol, you will read story after story of people who are blown away by this stuff – whose lives have changed. Although it encouraged me to try it, I like everyone else thought, “well, we’ll see.” I saw. It’s THE solution in my opinion.

So really, go get it, try it, deal with some itching and burning (think of the burning embarrassment if you DON’T use it), and get dry.

This fixed me in one single treatment, and after two consecutive treatments, both the directions on the bottle as well as people using the product suggest once every 7-10 days thereafter, and you stay dry as cotton.

It doesn’t dry your skin, it works by blocking the sweat pours and simply not allowing the sweat to penetrate the skin. Give it a shot, and prepare to be in a really, really good mood the next day.

Aloe Vera Lotion

Sweat-Stop Aloe Vera Lotion plus+ for the forehead and head.
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