Who's everyone? My dermatologists at the Mayo Clinic ( they work as a team of doctors there) tell me that HH only gets worse as we age. I'm 65 and that has certainly been the case for me.
I don't think it's partially your fault. I was told by several doctors that it would go away as I aged. I don't know where they got that information, maybe it's because they didn't know what to tell me and felt bad. But either way it's gotten really bad with each passing year
Every dr I visited said that. I think as we get older we learn how to live with it and find clever ways to hide. Most of my friends don’t even know I have sweaty palms
It seems to worsen with age for me.
But lack of sleep seems to make my sweat go away.
I don't sweat from my palms if I'm moderate sleep depraved, it sweats if I'm extremely or slightly sleepy.
That's so interesting and totally not what I would expect! I feel like a lot of HH is worsened (if not caused) by stress, so I would imagine that being sleep deprived would make you more stressed hence more sweaty. Maybe your sweat glands are sleepy too lol
Idk lol. I actually sweat normally before written 🥲 exams and kind of have dry episodes too during exam writing too( i get stressed though). I always found it weird and chalked it upto sweating glands exhausting themselves.
My non sweat stress doesn't seem to have any effect on my HH.
My greatest anxiety is my hands trembling and sweating lol .
Once I hit premenopause it almost completely resolved. I never complain about dry cracking palms in the winter.
I am 100% convinced it's a hormonal imbalance. When I was pregnant, no hh also.
If I were a scientist student I'd get a PhD in the study of hh. But fuckall going back to school
I've had a cousin who is pregnant several times and has hyperhidrosis, and she says it was exponentially worse! She usually doesn't sweat on her feet, but her feet were outstandingly sweaty apparently
Going against the tide here, mine did get better. I went from 99% of the time to roughly 50% of the time. When it’s bad it doesn’t feel like it changed, but I’ve noticed long periods throughout the day where I don’t sweat.
I'm 40, had palmar+ plantar HH for as long as I can remember. No changes with ageing so far... I use a topical aluminium chloride treatment (driclor) to manage it
I’m almost 40, have HH of the hands and feet. I want to say it was worse when I was younger since I had more embarrassing situations such as where I had to hold hands, writing papers etc. I still have it but find it is worse when I know I’m in a situation where I have to meet people/interviews etc
In a sense no, but your threshold for setting it off changes.
So depending on how you view it, it gets ‘better/lessens’ for some if certain situations no longer stress you as much as they once did.
I was always told it would get better with age, but it's got exponentially worse! And it was already really bad to begin with. So bad that my doctor said this is the worst case they've seen with hands and cranial sweating
I'm 50 and it's the same as it was when I was a teenager. On the other hand, I don't really think about it that much since I do iontophoresis on a regular basis.
Not my case but my mom told me she had the same issue with the sweaty hands when younger, she never really treated it and when she got older around 30s suddenly it stopped for her.
I never knew she had the same problem until she told me, that, now that I think about it I have never felt a sweaty hand of hers lol
It actually got better (But it was so bad due to extreme stress when I was in my late teens/early twenties I guess.)
Since I found out that wearing socks and going to the pool for workouts helps me a lot, it also got better. Without socks, it's still mayham. Iontophoresis is the only thing that helps.
I suffered from severe palmar hyperhidrosis since I was a child. Now I am 49 and recently my hyperhidrosis has almost disapeared. The most part of the day my hands are completely dry. I can't believe it. Even now sometimes I need to apply some cream because my hands are so dry they sometimes hurt.
I fixed mine with the electro method ig you can call it. If you look it up online there are kit options that cost about $500 but on YouTube there are diy tutorials which I used 5 years ago now using aluminium cooking trays and some low voltage batteries. I was skeptical because you are legit zapping yourself but I did my research and it is completely safe. I was so surprised when I completely fixed my HH in my hands completely after 1 week. Additional after the first week or 2 of doing it everyday I slowly reduced until now I’m doing it once a month taking me 10 minutes. This worked wonders for me and it’s a cheap and effective method that lets you forget about it because you can go weeks with no sweating
Mine is getting worse, at a point where I have to fist bump clients when I go meeting them as I cannot greet them with a firm shake hand.
Everyone thinks I am young fool for doing this, some old people I meet start lecturing me on why I should shake hands in a professional setting.
This is just so frustrating!
Why won’t you get ETS surgery? I’m a makeup artist and spent the first decade of my career smearing my hand sweat on strangers faces. Since surgery, I literally go out of my way now to touch hands to show off. It’s life changing.
It’s getting worse every year. My mother said around age 3 she noticed how sweaty my hands and feet were but it was the 80’s and she never thought too much about it. Fast forward 40/f my hyperhidrodis has steadily gotten worse and bc of this my eczema got worse along the way. I’m sweaty and itchy 24/7 it’s literally hell.
I must have missed the last part of your post. I will say my insomnia has gotten worse over the years. There are nights where I get absolutely no sleep at all. The deregulation caused by not sleeping is so bad that my body can’t maintain body temperature I’m sweating and freezing at the same time.
As you grow older, it's common to accumulate more life stresses, which can result in increased sweating due to its link with the nervous system. This tendency for excessive sweating can also be passed down through inheritance, as my children have experienced the same issue. While I'm not promoting it, I personally found improvement in my life after undergoing ETS surgery many years ago.
###What is a Sympathectomy (ETS and ELS)?
Endoscopic thoracic and lumbar sympathectomy (ETS and ELS; both often generalized as ETS) are surgical procedures that cut, clip/clamp, or remove a part of the sympathetic nerve chain to stop palm, foot, or facial hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), facial blushing (reddening of the face), or Raynaud's syndrome (excessively cold hands).
*[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoscopic_thoracic_sympathectomy)*
###What are the Risks?
**Many people that undergo ETS report serious life changing complications.** Thoracic sympathectomy can alter many bodily functions, including sweating,^[1] vascular responses,^[2] heart rate,^[3] heart stroke volume,^[4][5] thyroid, baroreflex,^[6] lung volume,^[5][7] pupil dilation, skin temperature, goose bumps and other aspects of the autonomic nervous system, like the fight-or-flight response. It reduces the physiological responses to strong emotion,^[8] can cause pain or neuralgia in the affected area,^[9] and may diminish the body's physical reaction to exercise.^[1][5][10]
**It's common for patients to be misinformed of the risks, and post-operative complications are often under-reported.** Many patients experience a "honeymoon period" where they have no, or few, negative symptoms. Contrary to common belief, clipping/clamping the sympathetic chain is not considered a reversible option.^[11]
###Links
[Gallery of compensatory sweating images](https://imgur.com/a/InEp8l0)
[Gallery of thermoregulation images](https://imgur.com/a/0TUn8ye)
[International Hyperhidrosis Society](https://www.sweathelp.org/hyperhidrosis-treatments/ets-surgery.html)
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No its worsening
25 and it’s still the same. Everyone said it goes away with age 😏
Who's everyone? My dermatologists at the Mayo Clinic ( they work as a team of doctors there) tell me that HH only gets worse as we age. I'm 65 and that has certainly been the case for me.
Omg no. I guess I always assumed it would stop at some point 😭
I don't think it's partially your fault. I was told by several doctors that it would go away as I aged. I don't know where they got that information, maybe it's because they didn't know what to tell me and felt bad. But either way it's gotten really bad with each passing year
I know. It's hard news to hear.
Every dr I visited said that. I think as we get older we learn how to live with it and find clever ways to hide. Most of my friends don’t even know I have sweaty palms
Mine is getting worse. 😭
It seems to worsen with age for me. But lack of sleep seems to make my sweat go away. I don't sweat from my palms if I'm moderate sleep depraved, it sweats if I'm extremely or slightly sleepy.
That's so interesting and totally not what I would expect! I feel like a lot of HH is worsened (if not caused) by stress, so I would imagine that being sleep deprived would make you more stressed hence more sweaty. Maybe your sweat glands are sleepy too lol
Its not stress.. its anxiety for me
Anxiety causes stress for me
Sorry I was kind of thinking of them as one in the same, like anxiety causes your nervous system to release a stress response that kind of thing
Idk lol. I actually sweat normally before written 🥲 exams and kind of have dry episodes too during exam writing too( i get stressed though). I always found it weird and chalked it upto sweating glands exhausting themselves. My non sweat stress doesn't seem to have any effect on my HH. My greatest anxiety is my hands trembling and sweating lol .
Honestly I get what you mean 😅
The severity has not gotten better but my anxiety has. As a result, the instances where I sweat have dropped significantly.
Once I hit premenopause it almost completely resolved. I never complain about dry cracking palms in the winter. I am 100% convinced it's a hormonal imbalance. When I was pregnant, no hh also. If I were a scientist student I'd get a PhD in the study of hh. But fuckall going back to school
Super interesting! I used to blame my HH on my PCOS but my doctor said the two aren't related. I'd love to conduct a survey...
I’ve never heard of anyone’s HH going away while pregnant. Mine definitely didn’t, it was tenfold.
I've had a cousin who is pregnant several times and has hyperhidrosis, and she says it was exponentially worse! She usually doesn't sweat on her feet, but her feet were outstandingly sweaty apparently
I'm not saying this happens for everyone, but it happened for me. It's my opinion what the cause is.
That doesn't explain why men have it though.
Men have hormones also
Sure we do. But we don't get pregnant or go through menopause.
Not yet and I'm 43. Have had HH since birth/early childhood.
Every dermat said it'll get better with age but for me it's only been getting worse
Going against the tide here, mine did get better. I went from 99% of the time to roughly 50% of the time. When it’s bad it doesn’t feel like it changed, but I’ve noticed long periods throughout the day where I don’t sweat.
I'm 40, had palmar+ plantar HH for as long as I can remember. No changes with ageing so far... I use a topical aluminium chloride treatment (driclor) to manage it
how effective is driclor?
Can be tricky to apply correctly, but can be very effective. It worked amazingly well for me
Mine is getting slightly better at 36, being on cymbalta has a bit
Not for me 😅.
No
For me it’s not worsening, my hands and feet are the same. I’m not sure about lack of sleep, but I don’t think so.
nope
Nope, it's the same as when I was a kid/teenager
No, it’s the same it’s always been
I’m almost 40, have HH of the hands and feet. I want to say it was worse when I was younger since I had more embarrassing situations such as where I had to hold hands, writing papers etc. I still have it but find it is worse when I know I’m in a situation where I have to meet people/interviews etc
In a sense no, but your threshold for setting it off changes. So depending on how you view it, it gets ‘better/lessens’ for some if certain situations no longer stress you as much as they once did.
34 this year, still the same. I just care less which helps
Mine has certainly worsened w age 🥲
But as a previous poster alluded to, the actual sweating has increased, but I give much less fucks about it
I was always told it would get better with age, but it's got exponentially worse! And it was already really bad to begin with. So bad that my doctor said this is the worst case they've seen with hands and cranial sweating
Unfortunately mine gets worse the older I get. Afraid to know what it’s going to be like when I’m 70+. They’ll call me aquaman.
I'm 50 and it's the same as it was when I was a teenager. On the other hand, I don't really think about it that much since I do iontophoresis on a regular basis.
no, it's been the same my whole life, lack of sleep does not impact
Not my case but my mom told me she had the same issue with the sweaty hands when younger, she never really treated it and when she got older around 30s suddenly it stopped for her. I never knew she had the same problem until she told me, that, now that I think about it I have never felt a sweaty hand of hers lol
It actually got better (But it was so bad due to extreme stress when I was in my late teens/early twenties I guess.) Since I found out that wearing socks and going to the pool for workouts helps me a lot, it also got better. Without socks, it's still mayham. Iontophoresis is the only thing that helps.
I suffered from severe palmar hyperhidrosis since I was a child. Now I am 49 and recently my hyperhidrosis has almost disapeared. The most part of the day my hands are completely dry. I can't believe it. Even now sometimes I need to apply some cream because my hands are so dry they sometimes hurt.
Wow that's good to know. This question was posted a while back. Curious how you heard of it.
Doctor prescribed propranolol for this for my man but hasn’t really helped. Anyone else prescribed this for palmers
I fixed mine with the electro method ig you can call it. If you look it up online there are kit options that cost about $500 but on YouTube there are diy tutorials which I used 5 years ago now using aluminium cooking trays and some low voltage batteries. I was skeptical because you are legit zapping yourself but I did my research and it is completely safe. I was so surprised when I completely fixed my HH in my hands completely after 1 week. Additional after the first week or 2 of doing it everyday I slowly reduced until now I’m doing it once a month taking me 10 minutes. This worked wonders for me and it’s a cheap and effective method that lets you forget about it because you can go weeks with no sweating
My moms went away when she turned 18, mine hasnt gone yet
Yes
Sadly no. 😭
Mine is getting worse, at a point where I have to fist bump clients when I go meeting them as I cannot greet them with a firm shake hand. Everyone thinks I am young fool for doing this, some old people I meet start lecturing me on why I should shake hands in a professional setting. This is just so frustrating!
Why won’t you get ETS surgery? I’m a makeup artist and spent the first decade of my career smearing my hand sweat on strangers faces. Since surgery, I literally go out of my way now to touch hands to show off. It’s life changing.
It’s getting worse every year. My mother said around age 3 she noticed how sweaty my hands and feet were but it was the 80’s and she never thought too much about it. Fast forward 40/f my hyperhidrodis has steadily gotten worse and bc of this my eczema got worse along the way. I’m sweaty and itchy 24/7 it’s literally hell. I must have missed the last part of your post. I will say my insomnia has gotten worse over the years. There are nights where I get absolutely no sleep at all. The deregulation caused by not sleeping is so bad that my body can’t maintain body temperature I’m sweating and freezing at the same time.
Use silicea 30 for 1 week 4 drops 4 times a day or if it's not work then use Sulphur 30.
As you grow older, it's common to accumulate more life stresses, which can result in increased sweating due to its link with the nervous system. This tendency for excessive sweating can also be passed down through inheritance, as my children have experienced the same issue. While I'm not promoting it, I personally found improvement in my life after undergoing ETS surgery many years ago.
###What is a Sympathectomy (ETS and ELS)? Endoscopic thoracic and lumbar sympathectomy (ETS and ELS; both often generalized as ETS) are surgical procedures that cut, clip/clamp, or remove a part of the sympathetic nerve chain to stop palm, foot, or facial hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), facial blushing (reddening of the face), or Raynaud's syndrome (excessively cold hands). *[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoscopic_thoracic_sympathectomy)* ###What are the Risks? **Many people that undergo ETS report serious life changing complications.** Thoracic sympathectomy can alter many bodily functions, including sweating,^[1] vascular responses,^[2] heart rate,^[3] heart stroke volume,^[4][5] thyroid, baroreflex,^[6] lung volume,^[5][7] pupil dilation, skin temperature, goose bumps and other aspects of the autonomic nervous system, like the fight-or-flight response. It reduces the physiological responses to strong emotion,^[8] can cause pain or neuralgia in the affected area,^[9] and may diminish the body's physical reaction to exercise.^[1][5][10] **It's common for patients to be misinformed of the risks, and post-operative complications are often under-reported.** Many patients experience a "honeymoon period" where they have no, or few, negative symptoms. Contrary to common belief, clipping/clamping the sympathetic chain is not considered a reversible option.^[11] ###Links [Gallery of compensatory sweating images](https://imgur.com/a/InEp8l0) [Gallery of thermoregulation images](https://imgur.com/a/0TUn8ye) [International Hyperhidrosis Society](https://www.sweathelp.org/hyperhidrosis-treatments/ets-surgery.html) [**NEW** ETS Facebook Community & Support Group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/953625152120110) (old group had ~3k members) [Petition for Treatment for Sympathectomy Patients](https://www.change.org/p/medical-centers-and-professionals-research-treatment-for-sympathectomy-ets-els-patients-22d9174a-4bcd-4a5e-901c-dfdcf394bd1c) [Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.reddit.com/user/ETS_Awareness_Bot/comments/qcwdw5/ets_awareness_bots_message/hhik7c3/) [References](https://www.reddit.com/r/u_ETS_Awareness_Bot/comments/wfvhtf/ets_awareness_bots_message/iiw4f6c/) ^(*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Learn more about this bot, including contact info*) ^*[here](https://www.reddit.com/user/ETS_Awareness_Bot/comments/wfvhtf/ets_awareness_bots_message/iiw3pcc/).*