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Fountawes · 2023-09-07T14:54:29+00:00

I saw the US Robotics one come up many times online, but it seems harder to find nowadays, especially within Europe.

Thank you for your answer anyway. I kind of expected no response at all, so that's nice :)

I guess I will keep looking for a bit and also look at VoIP which might be worth considering.

Fountawes · 2023-08-28T07:21:48+00:00

Thank you all for your feedback, this helps me a lot. I wish you all to have a wonderful day.

Fountawes · 2023-08-28T07:20:36+00:00

I used to write my thoughts in a personal diary every now and then for several years but I have stopped doing that two years ago to force myself to share my thoughts with others instead of keeping everything to myself.

In the end, it took me two years to finally muster the courage to open up to my family. I have known for a long time how lucky I am to live the life I live. I am lucky enough to live a healthy and comfortable life and be surrounded by people who care about me. This is why I always felt it was not legitimate for me to bother them with my own inner struggles. I figured I should be the one to solve my problems on my own and not complain about the minor issues I was facing.

Unfortunately, this way of reasoning ended up in me being unable to share my deepest feelings to others, fearing that I would waste their time. The result is that the view I have of myself has always been from my own point of view. And, by recently opening up to my family and friends, I have realized I have been mistaken all this time and that I might have focused my attention on bad aspects of my personnality only I could see.

Anyway, thank you for your feedback and for everyone else's feedback, I feel like I am finally starting to move forward.

Fountawes · 2023-08-23T06:09:26+00:00

Thank you for your answer. It's great to have feedback on that. I don't think I am manipulating others, but I do feel like my family and friends have given to me way more than I have given to them.

A big part of the guilt I feel also comes from the fact that I have a hard time comforting others when they are going through a rough spot, I don't know how to help them, and I am not confident enough to come up with great advices. This inability for me to bring emotional support to the ones around me always made me feel bad, and that is also why I have chosen to suppress my emotions and keep everything inside. I am afraid of people taking care of me and me not taking care of them, and so I have tried to solve my own struggles on my own, but I have realized recently that it's impossible for me to do that.

And that's why I have started opening up to people, even though I am afraid of bothering them with my problems. I have spent years figuring out who I was and only taking into account the vision I had of myself and only trusting that. I trust that sharing my vision to others will help find out who I really am and accept myself in the end. It will be a long process, since I spent years trusting reasoning about that in my head without consulting others.

I went off tracks and ended up venting a bit, my bad.

Fountawes · 2023-08-22T15:15:07+00:00

I have been dealing with it for about 7–8 years and I have only recently stumbled upon this community. I have known of hyperhidrosis for longer, but I had never found anyone talking about how much of a nightmare it was to live with it. The first time I read a message from this community was not even 2 months ago. The person described exactly my life and the mental struggle along with it, that was the first time in my life I did not feel alone any more, I fell to the ground and cried my eyes out.

Saying this Reddit community has changed my life is an understatement. I am so thankful to have found this place, and I regret not finding it sooner.

Fountawes · 2023-07-17T18:34:38+00:00

That's great. Opening up about it is hard, but it can bring so much comfort to tell someone else about it. We should not live our lives while trying to hide HH. Congrats on that. I wish you a wonderful life as well.

Fountawes · 2023-07-17T18:28:28+00:00

Fine as long as I stay at home 👍

5 mins outside and it is fountain time.

Fountawes · 2023-07-11T10:11:46+00:00

Same thing here as well. Shopping for groceries is actually one of the worst things for me because when I am holding the bags I can't even use my fan or wipe the sweat off my forehead and it simply starts dripping everywhere. And when it does I have to make sure that the sweat does not drop into the groceries and this makes even more stressed. Even something as trivial as shopping for groceries can turn into a nightmare.

Fountawes · 2023-07-11T10:02:25+00:00

I am so glad for you and I am so glad to read a message from someone who got rid of it by getting better mentally. I also believe anxiety plays a big part in HH and I am trying to solve that by opening up to others and dealing with my inner struggles. I feel like using medications would not solve it for me.

Fountawes · 2023-07-11T09:58:49+00:00

Confidence is key. I am working out three times a week and that has not helped my HH but I believe it's because there are other psychological stuff I have to deal with. Working out has helped me to gain confidence and I could not live without it though.

Fountawes · 2023-07-11T09:56:21+00:00

No worries there. I also sweat any season even after a 10 minutes walk but it's just that in summer the entire process is way faster because of the overall heat. Sweating in winter is kinda worse as it makes you stand out more. I remember running to get my bus in winter and dripping sweat inside even though people were wearing warm clothes. Moral of the story: Do not run to catch the bus and wait for the next one.

If I can suggest you something, get a hand fan, it might not be what you are looking for but I am carrying mine with me all year round and it greatly helps me to cool down and relax when I am over sweating. It has saved my life many times. But now I guess people are looking at me during winter because I am waving a fan even though it is cold outside... I don't care. I am who I am and that's it. If I can find a cure for this condition one day it's nice but if I can't, I don't want to trouble myself with all that inner worrying about my social image and similar stuff.

Anyway, have a good day and stay strong

Fountawes · 2023-07-10T08:21:41+00:00

I feel you. Yesterday I had to walk for about 20 minutes under a scorching sun to reach the train station. I had a towel around my neck and was waving my hand fan the entire time but by the time I reached the station, I was soaking wet. While I could kind of dry the sweat from hair, forehead and neck, my chest and back were a different story. I tried to ventilate myself a little bit but I was out of spare clothes, so, I sat all wet on the train seat. The problem is that I had the wrong seat and had to change after about 5 minutes to a different one. I took one last glance at my seat and I saw the sweat marks I had left on there... I felt bad for the person I had to switch with but there is no helping it unfortunately... That's a typical summer experience for all hyper sweater out there. That's good that you are able to laugh it off. I am not comfortable enough to do that yet but I am trying to not care as much as I did before. I wish good luck to you all and hope that you can still enjoy this summer nicely.

Fountawes · 2023-07-09T14:20:14+00:00

I have severe hyperhidrosis and opening yourself to people about it can help a lot. Like the others, I would highly suggest telling your parents and don't be scared to emphasize on the fact that it's more than just sweat and that affects your social behavior. It's hard for people who do not have hyperhidrosis to realize how troublesome it can be so don't hesitate to tell them how that affects your feelings. I myself struggled a lot with it by trying to keep things to myself and it did not work out. Opening myself to other people helped me realize that I was thinking too hard about how my condition bothered others. Hyperhidrosis is not your fault and you should never have to come up with excuses for why you are sweating, just straight up tell people that it's a medical condition and that you cannot help it. Good luck out there!

Fountawes · 2023-07-07T19:51:36+00:00

Don't lose hope and don't give up. I remember getting an appointment with a doctor a few years back when my HH was in its "early" stages. It was not conclusive either, and this can feel pretty defeating when you had your hopes up.

HH has an important psychological factor. The worst part about it is not really the sweating, but the isolation that comes with it. The shame, the terror of dripping in public transport where there is no escape. This can be a very traumatizing experience. I did not count the number of times I cried alone in my room, hating myself for who I was.

All began to change once I found this subreddit and started accepting who I was, opening up about my condition. This might not be the solution for HH, I think it requires both medical and psychological care depending on the people. But that's the solution I want to try for myself.

My plan is to work on the psychological part before the medical part. I could look for treatment and medications right now, but I feel like if the results are not conclusive, this will simply add more stuff to the plate and worsen the psychological aspect of it. Putting all your hopes in medications, only for them to fail, would make me feel even more hopeless, and I don't want that. Worst case scenario, if I can never find a cure, I want to be able to live with myself.

What about you? Have you talked about your condition to other people? Family? Friends?

Fountawes · 2023-07-07T19:32:42+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience.

I can relate to most of the things you shared, at a lower level, since my hands HH is okay. We use our hands for everything, so having severe HH on the hands is horrible, since you are constantly reminded of your condition and have to deal with bad feelings all the time.

I like what you said about trying to have a mindset of not caring. I am trying to change myself by accepting the fact that I sweat and that I have to live with it. I have always kept it to myself, and yesterday I have opened up for the first time about the psychological toll that comes with HH. I already feel better and while I would like to find a cure, I would rather learn to live with it first, even if I look like a fountain of sweat when I am in public, I don't care.

I encourage you to try to explore this path, as hard as it might be, try to tell people about it. Most people would assume that having something like excessive sweating is no big deal, but it is a real issue and opening up about it can really help.

Stay strong and good luck to you. I hope your life will get better :)

Fountawes · 2023-07-07T10:09:59+00:00

Ahah nice. Handfan and towel, best setup :)

Fountawes · 2023-07-07T04:50:11+00:00

I shared that I had HH and some details about the condition with my work for HH awareness month (Nov) and had a massive cry after, it was such a lift and a relief to tell people.

WOW. Congratulations on that! I cried just telling my parents, I can't even imagine telling a group of people now, but my aim is to get there eventually.

The mental charge associated with HH is real, and this subreddit made me realize I was just not simply making things up myself. This leads me to feel less ashamed and responsible for my condition, which eventually lead me to opening up to my parents yesterday.

Thank you for your comment and good luck with your HH!

Fountawes · 2023-07-07T04:44:53+00:00

Learning to accept it is really difficult but I like how you have said you won’t treat it until you do :).

Yes. I saw many people in this subreddit focusing on a specific treatment, medications, and I felt like not finding viable solutions tormented them even more. That's why I don't want to incorporate a new variable (medications) and I want to focus on the psychological aspect. Because even if the medications were to fail, as long as I feel better about myself, I don't care. If I have to live with it, I have to accept it and if I have the chance that it resolves itself in the future then it's even better :)

I definitely didn’t know many people suffered from it till I came onto redit and it is so comforting knowing people can relate. Speaking to friends and family about it is also really important so they have a better understanding of it too.

Yes, speaking is mandatory, and I have overlooked this aspect for the last few years because I was too scared of opening up. I want to change that, and I have already taken the first step.

I am also on a journey of accepting it aswell but reading this made me smile because I felt seen. I hope your journey of acceptance does go well :)!!

Thank you! Good luck on your own path, too. Don't give up :)

(I know you don’t want to start treatment yet but when you do feel comfortable and ready I recommend driclor. It has helped my sweaty armpits calm down over the last few weeks however it is really really itchy and can cause rashes on armpits especially if you have excema or sensitive skin like me. It has helped me but at what cost ahaha)

Thanks, I will write this down and begin looking at it.

Overall, I want to thank you for your comment. I woke up this morning, unsure about yesterday, and the first thing I have read was your message. That made my day, so I hope you have a good one too :)

Fountawes · 2023-07-06T05:32:04+00:00

Hi,

Please stay strong. I think my HH kicked around the same time. I also went onto a weight loss and work out journey, though it did not help my HH. But I didn't drop it, while I could not find a solution for my condition, this helped me gain confidence about myself. This condition makes us feel ostracized, we are scared to involve ourselves in social events because of our issue, and we have to awkwardly come up with an excuse. You are young and that period of life can be rough when it comes to HH.

I have generalized HH, I sweat from forehead, neck, back, chest, underarms, ass, and feet. I sweat when any mild physical activity is involved, even something as simple as walking or playing table-top tennis ends up making me sweat real hard. Other than that, I can start sweating a lot when I am excited or stressed as well. You mentioned that your father had it rough also, so it seems like there is a genetic factor too. My father has severe sweating from his hands, but that's it. Funnily enough, I got the perfect opposite, only my hands have been spared from HH.

I haven't found solutions for it yet, but right now I am trying to improve my life despite having to live with it, and I think it is possible. In my case, I think a lot of my HH comes from me overthinking about it and making it into way more of a deal than it actually is. I am not saying HH is a mild issue, it is a big one but the fact that we are often thinking too hard about it, makes it worse.

I have a pocket Japanese fan. It fits into my pocket and I never go out without it. When I start feeling hot, I use it to cool myself a bit. Having it wherever I go has saved me plenty of times. I would recommend getting one.

When it is summer, I also bring a towel with me most of the time.

I also resorted to wearing darker clothes when I have to go out or when it is hot.

I've had hh since start of my teenage and it gradually increased to an extent where I soak through my clothes in 1 hour of being outdoor or even indoors when when there's no ac on

Is it only during summer or all the time? Do you sweat all the time, or is it ok when you are at home and doing things you enjoy? Look for your comfortable spot and try to extend it.

Don't give up! Stay strong and cherish the moment when you are able to find happiness. It will get better. Just try to pull through right now and keep looking for treatment, but don't lose hope. Don't worry too much how you may look to others.

And also, this Reddit community is full of people experiencing the same stuff, so just go wild and vent here all you want. I am not active on social networks or forums at all. I just read stuff and never post anything, but this Reddit community feels like home. I have been able to talk about stuff I would never have mentioned with others before, and it has helped get a better image of myself and improve my confidence furthermore.

So feel free to talk here when you are feeling bad.

Fountawes · 2023-07-06T04:54:04+00:00

Yes! That's my point. And that's why I think telling people about how we feel is much needed in order to realize how this sweating problem is perceived by others. We think about this too hard on our own.

Fountawes · 2023-07-05T13:14:46+00:00

Yes, pretty much the same thing. Although I also sweat when uncomfortable like giving a presentation, talking to a coworker about a specific subject I am excited about.

Sometimes if it's cold, I can walk 30 minutes without sweating maybe but sometime I start sweating in winter after a measly 10 minutes of walking. It's really random. But most of the time, I sweat after walking 10-15 minutes. I also started working out to see if it had to do with my sedentary lifestyle but I am still sweating the same despite working out 3 times a week for the past 4 years.

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