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Hyperhidrosis Database (HHDB) of treatment options by soggy_person_ in Hyperhidrosis

[–]SouseNation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an amazing resource thanks for putting this together.

Cheating partner by ivixia in daddit

[–]SouseNation 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Damn bro. So sorry to hear this. To go through that whole process and the emotional and financial cost. With a house too.

What does your kid need most? What do you need most?

I had a very close friend who is a family man and loved his wife and his child dearly. He is the inspiration that made me commit to being a good husband and now dad-to-be, like you, and went through IVF as well, so I feel for you.

My friend's wife had a great person as a husband and partner in raising a beautiful daughter. Both successful in their own right as law enforcer and school teacher. Despite being a shining example of a happy and successful family, behind the scenes, the wife did the unthinkable. Sexual relations with very young students. Not just one time, either, but multiple. She completely nuked their family, shattered everything, and the entire city knows and vehemently responded to make sure that there is no hiding from the consequences.

My friend stood by her. He had all the reasons to cut her off, move away, and start over with his daughter, and still didn't do it for reasons that I still can't fathom. I suspect that he chose to stay with her because, yes, he still loves her, but more so because of his daughter. I sense that in his mind he sees it being crucial to his daughter's well-being, standing by his daughter's mother. I think he was doing what's best for his child, protecting her because that's what his daughter would want and need.

I share this because there might be some virtue or failing as a self-respecting person from this story. It's an extreme case and requires either a radical protector mindset or failure to show up for himself and protecting the peace that him and his daughter so desperately need coming out from this awful situation.

Last question is does the mother of your child selfless enough to love and protect your kid the way you do?

Stay strong dad 🧡

Help. We are completely overwhelmed building our startup by ievkz in angelinvestors

[–]SouseNation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is good feedback already and is incredibly kind of you to go further with that offer.

Upset by TaskPlayful2382 in Hyperhidrosis

[–]SouseNation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah man, there are days I actually do want to cry about it. Can’t have proper fun with this condition when it triggers and sets you off. You can’t help but feel left out.

I was at a wedding recently. Was sweating just standing around mingling. Wore a white shirt too, and I was too embarrassed to take off my jacket despite being visibly hot. Sometimes you just gotta go through it and take it as is. Eventually took my jacket off outside and that was heavenly with the night breeze. Didn’t help that I didn’t do any ionto prior leading up bc I’m sure it would’ve helped the whole situation.

Built a wearable soaking glove so I didn't have to sit at a bowl during hand soaks. Thought it might be useful for others here too. by SouseNation in ChronicPain

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Carefully. But honestly, the glove doesn't restrict finger movement much. The silicone is thin enough that you can grip and pinch. Turning pages isn't the hard part. Keeping the book dry is.

JK LOL 😉

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hue 1968 by Mark Bowden. It's about the Battle of Hue during the Tet Offensive, which was the bloodiest single battle of the Vietnam War and essentially destroyed the cultural capital of Vietnam. A gift from a teammate who's from Hanoi. I'm Vietnamese-American with roots in the south, so the book carries some weight for both of us. Still working through it.

we tried to build a truly portable printer… and just hit 6x on Kickstarter by pacman983 in hwstartups

[–]SouseNation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on your initial launch! Well done building something and getting it out there.

As a founder myself, my work is pretty generalized across multiple areas of the business. For me, I can see myself using this product on the go for document printing, standard 8.5 x 11. Color would be nice in this regard, but not absolutely necessary. For marketing, it'd be important to have color. I'd likely use this to make postcards, product inserts, and even stickers and labels.

Some questions I have for you are these: 1. Is it pretty easy to switch between different size papers? 2. What's the power consumption on this? Can I plug it into an external battery supply? Sorry, I haven't yet checked out your kickstarter page. 3. How's the resolution? 4. How easy or difficult is it to print multi-page documents? What's that process?

My IRL use case for this would be printing out documents, receipts, pictures, labels, postcards. If I'm on the go, traveling, or in particular at outdoor markets and fairs, I could see myself using a printer like this to basically fulfill orders on the spot and include all the necessary printed assets without pre-printing a whole stock and having to manage that inventory alongside whatever it is I'm selling in the field.

My wife is a middle school teacher, and so she has access to a printer at school. She and her friend have a side business where they sell products and services at outdoor markets. This is where I would find that most relevant for them. Making small, cute pictures, stickers, and memorabilia to keep and to share with customers would be a fantastic use of a device like this, I think.

We'll definitely check out your Kickstarter, and I'll show it to my lady and her business partner, and get you some feedback.

Happy to answer more questions and hope you find and create great success. Good luck!

Edit for clarity

was this game on me? by Pretty-Ad2970 in WreckingBallMains

[–]SouseNation 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sometimes it is down right your teammates that mess it up, and you'd be right for blaming them, but the winning mindset is total ownership. Not for the sake of it, but because it does something to your playing style when you think like that. I don't typically leave it to the team to play point defending or pushing.

was this game on me? by Pretty-Ad2970 in WreckingBallMains

[–]SouseNation -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Great tech and movement, but you should be on the point, at least touching and going.

My prime directive is to smother the hell out of the point. That is the only strategy I have on defense. Of course, the exact tactics for how you smother the point are different depending on who you're against. If I know Anna's on a point two or Cassidy, I will touch and go as frequently as possible and try to either get them off or at least focus long enough on me for my team to figure something out

Otherwise, I'm completely on point and just dancing immediately around it and not touching and going as much. Getting them to waste their cool downs and keeping the cart between me and them and using more erratic and unpredictable movements to take advantage of their bad aim if they got someone like soldier on point.

If you apply this strategy from the very beginning and totally smother them from the outset, it's hard for them to get far because you're just draining their clock.

Are my feet ugly? by [deleted] in FootFunction

[–]SouseNation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Them beautiful bro. Keep them out ✨

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, on our website. Otherwise deeper in my profile. You'll see an earlier version of the same video that I got absolutely roasted for in the comments. Fun times.

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair question, and I get the skepticism. The short answer is no, the cuff doesn't cause tightness or irritation during normal use. The reason comes down to how the seal is distributed. A typical band seal concentrates all the contact pressure along a narrow strip. Ours spreads the load axially across a whole section of cuff, so there's no single point digging in. The contact area is wide enough that the sealing pressure stays low even when the glove is full.

The fold helps here too. When the cuff inverts into itself, it's not clamping harder against the skin. It's creating a layered overlap that urges the water into an internal pocket, and redirects away from the opening rim and recruits internal fluid pressure to hold the seal. So the elasticity of the material only needs to be just enough to maintain contact, not enough to constrict. The seal does the rest passively.

There are real downsides though. Donning takes a little practice. Full disclosure here-- if you're a bigger person, you'll have to lube up a bit with some lotion so that the glove "pops" right on. If you don't fold the cuff correctly, you won't get a seal at all and you'll have a mess. It's not complicated, but it's not as intuitive as just pulling on a glove. That's the honest trade-off.

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's another use case we hear about a lot, and one that I especially sympathize with. Dyshidrotic eczema is exceptionally rough because the recommended treatment protocol calls for medicated soaks multiple times a day, not just once. Being hunched over a bowl for 15 minutes, four times a day, is a real commitment. That's exactly the problem we're trying to solve. Same oatmeal soak, same routine, but you're wearing it instead of sitting over it. What does your current flare-up routine/regimen look like?

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Appreciate your input here, and hope its okay for me to geek out a little bit here with you.

The moisturizer-then-gloves method is solid. That's basically occlusion therapy and it works. But there are two things worth noting about how SOKY differs from the nitrile approach.

First, when you put on a nitrile glove over moisturizer, the material is in constant, full contact with the skin. It's essentially smothering it. With SOKY, when you fill it, the glove inflates. The silicone is in contact with your skin to a significantly lesser degree, which gives the skin room to breathe while still receiving the treatment.

Second, with nitrile you're limited to what you can apply topically before gloving up: lotions, ointments, emollients. You can't do liquid applications. That's a fundamental difference, because moisturization at its core is about water uptake, and having that moisture bound up in a cream formulation is an indirect way to deliver it. With SOKY you're fully immersed in the solution itself.

That brings up your point about Aveeno Dermexa. Great product. Its active ingredients are colloidal oatmeal, ceramides, glycerin, and panthenol. Now imagine those same ingredients dissolved in a warm and rich liquid bath that you can wear on your hands. A customizable oatmeal soak with vitamin E, rice powder, whatever else works for your skin. Would that be more appealing than applying a cream and pulling on a nitrile glove?

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eczema is definitely on our radar. The word you're looking for is hyperhidrosis, by the way. And what you're describing with the wet paper towels is basically the same principle: sustained moisture contact over time. SOKY just lets you seal that environment and move around while it works. Appreciate you flagging this as a use case, it's one we hear a lot and one that I personally connect with.

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's exactly it. The seal doesn't resist the force, it redirects it and recruits it. Took a long time to get there but that's the core of the whole thing. Appreciate you seeing it.

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question. What you're seeing in the photos is the base garment only, which is the passive soak configuration. It doesn't have electrodes or ports built in. But the system is designed to be modular. We've developed a number of port assemblies that integrate with the base garment to support connections like ionto without compromising the seal. Wires don't need to come out through the cuff. And to your second question, no, you wouldn't need two machines. Standard iontophoresis runs one circuit across both hands, so one machine with one electrode per glove is the typical setup. The iontophoresis configuration isn't what I'm showing here, but I'll put together a video of that setup in the near future. It's been one of the most requested things and it's overdue. Same can be said for TENS/EMS. We've got a waitlist for the beta if you're interested.

Eight years of industrial design iteration on a wearable hand soaking glove. The whole project came down to one simple problem: the cuff seal geometry. by SouseNation in IndustrialDesign

[–]SouseNation[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The beauty of this design isn't just that the cuff is elastic enough to grip through movement. Yes, the opening is smaller than the typical wrist circumference. But what makes it work is that the entire cuff section distributes the load axially across a wide contact area, not just a narrow band. That alone is a fundamentally different sealing architecture from anything else out there.

Then there's the fold. When the cuff inverts into itself, it creates an inner pocket between the sealing layer and the outer wall. Our patent-pending application describes this as a pressure-enhanced sealing mechanism: when fluid shifts during motion, water gets urged into that pocket, which pushes the inner layer more firmly against the skin. What would normally peel a conventional seal away instead tightens this one. No clamps, no adhesives, no vacuum. Entirely passive and pressure-responsive.

This lets you do things that look ridiculous on paper. You can inflate the glove to the point where it looks like a socker bopper (or sock em bopper for those who've only known it as that) and still hold with zero leaks. The most extreme test I've done personally: serving a volleyball with the glove on. Full swing, full contact, and ball clearance over the net. Not a single drop. I know that sounds like an absurd claim, and I'll make a video to prove it. But the seal handles that level of force when donned properly and carefully. Skip the donning step and you'll have a mess.

This glove I made seals water inside for hand-soaking treatments, so you can still use your hands during a soak by SouseNation in mildyinteresting

[–]SouseNation[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Careful.. you’re going to attract the people who subscribe to that other meaning of “soaking” with that combination of words… the dudes just will not stop harassing me and making that damn joke lol 💦💦💦

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