#hyperhidrosis

[decadentqueentidalwave]

There are things called a finger stylus, which are like thimbles but they work on touch screens! Also called mobile gaming finger sleeves or finger mounted conductive stylus.

Someone was saying they couldn’t use touch screens but I can’t remember where so I’m posting it in the disability tags.

[fleshcoloredskies]

Waterboy Me and my hyperhidrosis

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Uncomfortably wet all the time

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

I consider my palm hyperhidrosis one of my most disabling conditions. Sounds a bit dramatic when i also have moderate me/cfs, heds, and a fucked up autonomous nervous system but it's true. And no one thinks it's that bad, everyone gets sweaty hands sometimes, right? But it's the reason i can't read books because i will literally dissolve the pages. I can't touch food. Doesn't sound too bad until you need to use a fork to eat your bread and pizza and gummybears. By now it's so severe I have to carry towels around with me everwhere because otherwise my hands will be dripping. It gets so bad that i can't even use my phone because touchscreens can't read the motions because it's that wet. Do you know how difficult it is to take meds when you can't touch them? Most of my time i can't do my hobbies because my hands are too wet. Handsewing and embroidery are really slow when you have to dry your hand off between every single stitch. Pattern drafting requires thin paper that dissolved pretty fast when wet. Holding onto most objects gets a lot harder when everything is so fucking slippery.

Hyperhidrosis sucks and getting treatment is excruciatingly slow because no one thinks it's much of an issue. I already had hyperhidrosis when i was seven years old. Well over a decade. And it's only gotten worse and i still don't even have an official diagnosis in my medical file.

And yes i've tried drinking sage tea and as a kid it even helped a bit but it's too severe for that now. I've already tried topical salves but they dried out my hands so bad the skin started cracking open. It's not anxiety issues and home remedies will not work.

[onyxeatsu]

half of my problems would be solved if i simply stopped sweating

any other sufferers here ?

[huckleberrysigh]

Having symptoms that lend to things that are considered unconventionally attractive used to literally keep me up at night until I just stopped giving a fuck

Stopped shaving bc of harm OCD. Now rocking mini-skirts with hairy ass legs

Hyperhidrosis and sweat stains. It’s fucking human bro. I literally can’t control my bodily functions. Got a ‘caution wet floor’ tattoo and moved on

[1-heya-kiki-1]

My perspirex arrived today!! Which means this can stop my underarm sweating finally!

[block-swing-perry]

maybe a late night thought thats speaking to me but if i had been put on my sweating meds earlier i probably would have tried to major in something related to restorative work for art museums. i like processes.

actually a lot of work would have opened up. dripping hands are not conductive to most careers!

huge struggle my first couple of art classes when i wasnt on them, and id actually actively try to not come to class because i was overheating on the way to class, having swollen hands, and then just sweating all over my paper and charcoal. and i love art!!! and then id go back to my room where i would try not to move or id clutch a towel for hours to wait for my hands to stop sweating so id feel good enough to do work

[cah-culture-is]

About the hyperidrosis ask - Idk about sweaty hands specifically (though I do have that too, am diagnosed PCOS but suspecting CAH) but hyperidrosis in general/being very sweaty is a known effect of androgens, so this definitely can be associated with hyperandrogenic CAH ! (amongst other things of course)

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Ahhh that's fair got it... I saw you complaining about sweaty hands in particular and my mind immediately jumped to Oh shit that sounds similar to something I know. I haven't exactly heard about hyperandrogenism causing hyperhidrosis though either? Wikipedia is saying the endocrine causes of it could be diabetes mellitus, acromegaly, hyperpituitarism, some thyroid diseases, and a kind of adrenal tumor called a pheochromocytoma. Not high amounts of androgens specifically, legitimately the only thing I could find about that was this paper (link) and the father of the girl mentioned had diabetes mellitus too.