Robyrob82
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Hello,
I'm a 30yold male,athletic and in good health. One problem i always had was Hyperhidrosis ever since my teens. It had affected my carreer,my love life,relationship with others...everything
It was ALWAYS on my mind. I suffered mostly from sweating in my hands and feet,but the hand part was the most suffering part as your hands is your first contact with meeting someone or showing affection...signing papers etc....
I had tried everything...from useless creams and ointments for the hands...to electro shocks...the oral pills....I did the botox injections....you name it i did it. The only one that actually worked for me was the Botox injections. I did it in 2010 and doctor told me it would last minimum 6months to a year...WRONG. It actually lasted only 2 months before i started sweating again. But it was the best 2months of my life! But paying 600$ for a 2month cure gets too expensive. And as far as people being scared it hurts...its not that bad. First needles hurt a bit but after its like nothing. Nothing to be worried about,they numb you nerves when they do that anyways. On a side note i have to say that i smoked marijuana. And i did not smoke it to get high or act stupid...marijuana was the only remedy helping me with my anxiety and would make my hands dry, it was weird. One thing for sure...anxiety=my hands pouring in sweat. I had tried anxiety pills to see if it would help...but pills seem to make my sweating worse. The marijuana helped alot for my hand sweat. But i didnt want to do that all my life and i cant go to work high on marijuana.
So here I am...30yold and completely fed up with my problem. I became having depression,severe anxiety because of this hand sweat and became anti-social as i would fear or avoid people or situations where i have to shake hands....or even worse hold the hands or touch the person you love.
Thanks to the internet i started to read alot about this hyperhydrosis. I did my research...read the goods and the bads about the final step...ETS Surgery. I was really scared about the bad reputation that surgery had for some people...but at same time i guess the people for who it worked wouldnt come on forums and said it worked as people mostly post stuff when sometmies is wrong not good....
So i wen to see my dermatologist and told im i was fed up with this and i wanted to consult a Thoracic surgeon for ets surgery. I consulted the surgeon...he made me feel confident about the surgery...but every surgery can be risky lets not be fooled. For your information i live in Montreal,Canada and hyperhydrosis is covered by our health care system so i didnt have to pay nothing for the surgery as I read in the USA it can be quite an expensive surgery. So 2 months later here i am in the operating room getting ready to be cut. They are gonna insert a straw size camera under both my arm pits and another straw size to insert tiny instruments. This was done under full anesthesia. Before the surgery I asked him if it was only gonna be T4 nerve he was gonna cut and he told me T3 and T4 for hands hyperhydrosis.
I woke up 1hour later with my hands and feet fully dry. It was so weird. I felt a big pain im my chest as your lungs get deflated to get access to the sweating nerves near your spine.For some odd reason the doctor told me he cut the T3-T4...and T5!! thanks for letting me know doc!!
After surgery i felt Like if a 500 pound gorilla was sitting on my chest. The pain medicine helped with the pain. My back muscle hurt too. But by next day i was able to leave hospital and walk again. Taking deep breaths ad coughing or sneezing was hurting me alot. But after a week the pain went away.
One day 3 of my surgery I got scared because my right hand was staring to sweat again like crazy...but odd enough it became dry completely the next day.
Now the side effects that i feel from this....Alot of you out there suffered compensatory sweating after the surgery...and i have to say I'm one of those now...let me explain something quick...the T3-T4 nerves act for hand-feet sweat mostly...the T5 acts for sweat for under arms,your face and upper body above nipples. So basically right now i have ZERO sweat in my WHOLE arms and hands. I basically have zero sweat above my nipples and have no more goose bumps in my arms or above my nipples,you can actually see a perfect line acrosse my nipples....i have goosebumps in legs and torso but zero goosebumps above my nipple line or arms...its weird.
I do have severy compensatory sweating coming from my back and my torso,groins and legs...but the sweat is gone from my hands and my feet have improved so much. I can tolerate this compensatory sweating compare to the nightmare I had with my hands. I have to say that heat is the worst enemy. And when i get in nervous situations il sweat from those body parts. But if im in a room where its nice and cool or outside with normal breeze i feel great with zero sweat. Its just something you get used to...I do not wear light clothing because of this...so I adjust. Il wear a tank top under my shirts and Il manage. I got this surgey done on July19th 2012 so here in Montreal we get like 30degrees and humidity so it was a good test to see how my body would react.
Il admit the first week of surgery...I just felt weird...like your body is adjusting to those nerves being cut. I starting having regrets about this surgery and was crying at night about what i done to myself. The first few days of compensatory sweat makes you want to cry as I was not used to sweat from those body parts but only my damn hands and feet. But here I am a month later and i have to say that Im happy with ETS surgery...I feel more confident and it just feels great to shake hands and not be worry about the nasty sweats on your hands....just holding my girlfriends hand is just amazing. And as far as sex life there is nothing wrong down there after surgery
Just be aware that everybody is different and react different to surgery...the biggest con I can say is the compensatory sweat...but like i said you manage to live with it and it alot better than nightmare i had with my hand sweat.
I hope my experience have helped you some out there that arent too sure about doing this as i was very afraid to do it as well. People dont have a clue whats it like to be a HH sufferer...My hand feet sweat affected me in my everyday life...i washed my hands like 50x a day...worried 24/7 who would come shake my hand or avoid social situations...I became bitter...less smiley...anxious...depressed... I just want to be the person that i know i can be and enjoy life without having to worry about this Hyperhydrosis...and so far I have to say I'm happy how it changed my life....I know alot of you have had bad experiences with ETS surgery but there are somewhat good stories out there and i want it to share it. Sorry for my english grammar as English is not my first language.
I wish you all a good day and hope my story have helped some of you out there.
Roby.
I'm a 30yold male,athletic and in good health. One problem i always had was Hyperhidrosis ever since my teens. It had affected my carreer,my love life,relationship with others...everything
It was ALWAYS on my mind. I suffered mostly from sweating in my hands and feet,but the hand part was the most suffering part as your hands is your first contact with meeting someone or showing affection...signing papers etc....I had tried everything...from useless creams and ointments for the hands...to electro shocks...the oral pills....I did the botox injections....you name it i did it. The only one that actually worked for me was the Botox injections. I did it in 2010 and doctor told me it would last minimum 6months to a year...WRONG. It actually lasted only 2 months before i started sweating again. But it was the best 2months of my life! But paying 600$ for a 2month cure gets too expensive. And as far as people being scared it hurts...its not that bad. First needles hurt a bit but after its like nothing. Nothing to be worried about,they numb you nerves when they do that anyways. On a side note i have to say that i smoked marijuana. And i did not smoke it to get high or act stupid...marijuana was the only remedy helping me with my anxiety and would make my hands dry, it was weird. One thing for sure...anxiety=my hands pouring in sweat. I had tried anxiety pills to see if it would help...but pills seem to make my sweating worse. The marijuana helped alot for my hand sweat. But i didnt want to do that all my life and i cant go to work high on marijuana.
So here I am...30yold and completely fed up with my problem. I became having depression,severe anxiety because of this hand sweat and became anti-social as i would fear or avoid people or situations where i have to shake hands....or even worse hold the hands or touch the person you love.
Thanks to the internet i started to read alot about this hyperhydrosis. I did my research...read the goods and the bads about the final step...ETS Surgery. I was really scared about the bad reputation that surgery had for some people...but at same time i guess the people for who it worked wouldnt come on forums and said it worked as people mostly post stuff when sometmies is wrong not good....
So i wen to see my dermatologist and told im i was fed up with this and i wanted to consult a Thoracic surgeon for ets surgery. I consulted the surgeon...he made me feel confident about the surgery...but every surgery can be risky lets not be fooled. For your information i live in Montreal,Canada and hyperhydrosis is covered by our health care system so i didnt have to pay nothing for the surgery as I read in the USA it can be quite an expensive surgery. So 2 months later here i am in the operating room getting ready to be cut. They are gonna insert a straw size camera under both my arm pits and another straw size to insert tiny instruments. This was done under full anesthesia. Before the surgery I asked him if it was only gonna be T4 nerve he was gonna cut and he told me T3 and T4 for hands hyperhydrosis.
I woke up 1hour later with my hands and feet fully dry. It was so weird. I felt a big pain im my chest as your lungs get deflated to get access to the sweating nerves near your spine.For some odd reason the doctor told me he cut the T3-T4...and T5!! thanks for letting me know doc!!
After surgery i felt Like if a 500 pound gorilla was sitting on my chest. The pain medicine helped with the pain. My back muscle hurt too. But by next day i was able to leave hospital and walk again. Taking deep breaths ad coughing or sneezing was hurting me alot. But after a week the pain went away.
One day 3 of my surgery I got scared because my right hand was staring to sweat again like crazy...but odd enough it became dry completely the next day.
Now the side effects that i feel from this....Alot of you out there suffered compensatory sweating after the surgery...and i have to say I'm one of those now...let me explain something quick...the T3-T4 nerves act for hand-feet sweat mostly...the T5 acts for sweat for under arms,your face and upper body above nipples. So basically right now i have ZERO sweat in my WHOLE arms and hands. I basically have zero sweat above my nipples and have no more goose bumps in my arms or above my nipples,you can actually see a perfect line acrosse my nipples....i have goosebumps in legs and torso but zero goosebumps above my nipple line or arms...its weird.
I do have severy compensatory sweating coming from my back and my torso,groins and legs...but the sweat is gone from my hands and my feet have improved so much. I can tolerate this compensatory sweating compare to the nightmare I had with my hands. I have to say that heat is the worst enemy. And when i get in nervous situations il sweat from those body parts. But if im in a room where its nice and cool or outside with normal breeze i feel great with zero sweat. Its just something you get used to...I do not wear light clothing because of this...so I adjust. Il wear a tank top under my shirts and Il manage. I got this surgey done on July19th 2012 so here in Montreal we get like 30degrees and humidity so it was a good test to see how my body would react.
Il admit the first week of surgery...I just felt weird...like your body is adjusting to those nerves being cut. I starting having regrets about this surgery and was crying at night about what i done to myself. The first few days of compensatory sweat makes you want to cry as I was not used to sweat from those body parts but only my damn hands and feet. But here I am a month later and i have to say that Im happy with ETS surgery...I feel more confident and it just feels great to shake hands and not be worry about the nasty sweats on your hands....just holding my girlfriends hand is just amazing. And as far as sex life there is nothing wrong down there after surgery
Just be aware that everybody is different and react different to surgery...the biggest con I can say is the compensatory sweat...but like i said you manage to live with it and it alot better than nightmare i had with my hand sweat.
I hope my experience have helped you some out there that arent too sure about doing this as i was very afraid to do it as well. People dont have a clue whats it like to be a HH sufferer...My hand feet sweat affected me in my everyday life...i washed my hands like 50x a day...worried 24/7 who would come shake my hand or avoid social situations...I became bitter...less smiley...anxious...depressed... I just want to be the person that i know i can be and enjoy life without having to worry about this Hyperhydrosis...and so far I have to say I'm happy how it changed my life....I know alot of you have had bad experiences with ETS surgery but there are somewhat good stories out there and i want it to share it. Sorry for my english grammar as English is not my first language.
I wish you all a good day and hope my story have helped some of you out there.
Roby.
