Iontophoresis maintenance questions

[sweatyRat]

Hi.
Can someone tell me when doing maintenance treatment do you wait till your sweating starts to come back? If not does it then make your hands and feet start to sweat for the next few days and then returns back to dryness??

Let’s say after 2weeks of doing the treatment you are dry on Sunday how long after do you think would be best to do a maintenance treatment? 3 days? so lets say Wednesday and if the sweating returns and by Friday you are dry again do you do the next treatment on the Sunday again... so that’s 2 maintenance treatments a week?


I would really appreciate it if you could answer these questions.

Thanks

 

[HH]

after I did the initial treatments on my hands for two weeks I cut back to doing two treatments a week-one mid week and then again at the weekend. After several months of this I then cut down to just one treatment a week for 30mins.
Unfortunately ever person is different so this might not work for you....or then again it might. I think its best to keep on top of the treatments and do one a week at least-don't start doing treatments again when the sweating starts else you might go back to square one again. hope this helps

 

[sweatyRat]

Thanks HH.
Do you find u will start sweating after a maintenance treatment?

 

[HH]

no, my sweating doesn't start after a maintenance treatment but again-everyone is different when it comes to this. If you've just completed your initial treatments then maybe just do two treatments a week for a month and see how it goes.

 

[Jezza]

Ey guys,

I have been doing tap water ionto with some soda lately and after 3 weeks/21 straight days of 15 min on the plus pole only on my hands, I'm finally getting some real results. My feet sweat badly as well as some bad generalised sweating but I wanted to give ionto one more shot so I decided to first focus completely on my hands.

My palms are now quite dry and most importantly, largely remain dry in stressful situations. However, my fingertips and the in between/on top of my fingers area still sweats badly and annoyingly, also still generally feels cold to the touch (with the dryness in my palms, the usual coldness seems to have gone as well in the now dry area).

Now for my question;

Do you get dryness in these areas as well...and more importantly do you let the water in the trays cover these areas (all the way over nails/fingers)? I have not been doing the latter, cause I thought putting too much water in the trays was one of the things I did wrong the first time (back in summer '07...the machine has been dusting away till 3,5 weeks ago cause I didn't believe in it anymore).

However, now I'm thinking maybe if I cover these areas with water as well the sweating eventually stops sweating there too??? This would also be important for my feet cause getting only the soles dry wouldn't make much of a difference there, big parts of the sides of my feet, tops of my toes and some areas on top of my feet are also affected, so only if the ionto works on the entire foot it would make some real difference.

All in all I've gotten better results than I expected (then again I didn't expect any results after last time), but I need to push this over the top to really get at least the hands bone dry. Would adding more water hurt the results?

(Btw I still do a treatment every day for now, don't really want to start all over again)

 

[Broch]

It took about 2 weeks of daily treatment to stop it completely, now I do about two 20 minute maintenance sessions spaced out during the week. I haven't had my hands sweat in about 3 months now, although I can feel them trying sometimes.

To Jezza:

I found the hardest parts to keep under control are the finger tips and the fleshy side of the palm opposite the thumb. For the most part, they don't sweat, but I still feel the slightest amount of moisture when I'm really hot or under intense stress. Under normal conditions they are completely dry, though and provide no embarrassment in social situations. I make sure these areas are completely submerged when doing ionto. Pretty much, the only areas of my hand above water are the first knuckles and back of my palm.

 

[Jezza]

Thanks Broch that's what I needed to know.

It's exactly the same for me btw in terms of difficult areas (and it took me a little longer to achieve results, though you might have been doing longer treatments). The tops of my fingers still sweat now and that makes the whole feel still too uncomfortable, but I'll be covering them with water from now on and we'll see what happens.

Now I'll also have to start doing my feet on the anodal side see how that works out...In the best scenario I'll still be stuck with some bad generalised sweating now and then but with something like 80-90% dry hands and feet it will be a lot better overall. Doing the treatments sucks but at least it's a way of treating it which does make a difference and doesn't have bad side effects as far as I can tell now.

 

[Broch]

I've tried the feet before but ultimately gave up on those. They're a lot more stubborn about being dry than the hands, and I didn't feel like devoting any more time to ionto. But it definitely works, yes, I have gotten them dry before.

One thing about the ionto on the hands is that once I achieved stable dryness all the time, I sweat a lot less everywhere else because I'm less stressed about it. In fact, a lot of the times when I'm dealing with people, I don't even think about it. Oddly enough, I'll have the sudden realization that "Hey, I'm shaking hands and not sweating!" Normally, that would trigger the sweat, but I'm still dry. Just keep at it and don't take a break from the treatments until you've gone a full 24 hours without sweating.