I'm here to share my experiences with the debilitating condition hyperhidrosis. I've had severe palmar/ plantar HH since birth and it has had a devastating impact on my life, my relationships with others and perception of myself.
Anyway, enough moaning, heres the treatments I've tried;
topicals - driclor, antihydral, klima,
iontophoresis
glycopyrollate
propranolol
vesicare
detrunorm
green essence powder
piracteam
phenibut
noopept
Out of these, glycopyrollate (avert, robinul etc) is clearly the most effective method to combat HH. Having started taking it about 2 years ago (from pharmacy.ca), it instantly was successful and gave me 95% upwards dryness. I found it difficult to manage eating as you have to have a completely empty stomach and I found you could not eat until the effects had started. This took around 4 hours and lasted around 12 hours afterwards. The side effects were manageable but unpleasant; very dry mouth, urinary retention, blurred vision, headaches. I found a way to ensure 100% effectiveness, with onset of glyco after around 10 minutes, however I will not discuss this method here. Anyway, this drug was unsustainable as it meant a constant dry mouth that meant it was difficult to swallow, and made any potential amorous interaction difficult, if not impossible. Conclusion: A good place to start treatment, and ideal for high pressure interviews, but not sustainable long term.
The only topical I found useful was antihydral (methenamin) as used by rock climbers. I used this on my hands every night for 4 days, and afterwards had 90% plus dryness for several weeks. However this product caused extreme scaling, yellow decayed skin and calluses , to the point where I don't think I could break the skin even with a knife. It took 4 weeks, tons of moisturizer, exfoliation etc to get my skin back to normal. Conclusion: certainly works but tears up your skin like nobody's business.
Iontophoresis can work, but it is highly unpredictable, time consuming and painful. I started this around 2008, and had initial success. I found using bottled water with a high bicarbonate content (Badoit) to be best. Using a relatively painful current level (switching polarities after 15 minutes) for around 10 days gave 80% plus dryness for several days. However I found the maintenance sessions seemed to cause horrendous sweating again for a day afterwards before dryness again. It was unpredictable and sole destroying in that you could be dry one day, then soaking the next. You could not rely on dryness for special occasions etc. Conclusion: can work, but until we know definitively how it works, cannot be relied upon and horribly time consuming.
I've started experimenting with nootropic supplements recently and found phenibut to be successful in reducing anxiety, and also anxiety related sweating. I've posted about i before, and its early doors but encouraging.
This post is very long, but I felt it owed it to the community to share my experience as I've been a long time lurker and I understand the frustration with this terrible affliction. Please feel free to ask me any questions, I can almost guarantee I know more about this than your dermatologist.
Anyway, enough moaning, heres the treatments I've tried;
topicals - driclor, antihydral, klima,
iontophoresis
glycopyrollate
propranolol
vesicare
detrunorm
green essence powder
piracteam
phenibut
noopept
Out of these, glycopyrollate (avert, robinul etc) is clearly the most effective method to combat HH. Having started taking it about 2 years ago (from pharmacy.ca), it instantly was successful and gave me 95% upwards dryness. I found it difficult to manage eating as you have to have a completely empty stomach and I found you could not eat until the effects had started. This took around 4 hours and lasted around 12 hours afterwards. The side effects were manageable but unpleasant; very dry mouth, urinary retention, blurred vision, headaches. I found a way to ensure 100% effectiveness, with onset of glyco after around 10 minutes, however I will not discuss this method here. Anyway, this drug was unsustainable as it meant a constant dry mouth that meant it was difficult to swallow, and made any potential amorous interaction difficult, if not impossible. Conclusion: A good place to start treatment, and ideal for high pressure interviews, but not sustainable long term.
The only topical I found useful was antihydral (methenamin) as used by rock climbers. I used this on my hands every night for 4 days, and afterwards had 90% plus dryness for several weeks. However this product caused extreme scaling, yellow decayed skin and calluses , to the point where I don't think I could break the skin even with a knife. It took 4 weeks, tons of moisturizer, exfoliation etc to get my skin back to normal. Conclusion: certainly works but tears up your skin like nobody's business.
Iontophoresis can work, but it is highly unpredictable, time consuming and painful. I started this around 2008, and had initial success. I found using bottled water with a high bicarbonate content (Badoit) to be best. Using a relatively painful current level (switching polarities after 15 minutes) for around 10 days gave 80% plus dryness for several days. However I found the maintenance sessions seemed to cause horrendous sweating again for a day afterwards before dryness again. It was unpredictable and sole destroying in that you could be dry one day, then soaking the next. You could not rely on dryness for special occasions etc. Conclusion: can work, but until we know definitively how it works, cannot be relied upon and horribly time consuming.
I've started experimenting with nootropic supplements recently and found phenibut to be successful in reducing anxiety, and also anxiety related sweating. I've posted about i before, and its early doors but encouraging.
This post is very long, but I felt it owed it to the community to share my experience as I've been a long time lurker and I understand the frustration with this terrible affliction. Please feel free to ask me any questions, I can almost guarantee I know more about this than your dermatologist.