#palm hyperhidrosis

[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.

[acesbeadednecklace]

Based off of this post.

Having hyperhidrosis is hell. Sure, I'm lucky I don't have things that affect my life on a worse level like bpd or illnesses that cause excruciating pain or mobility issues, but living with hyperhidrosis keeps you from enjoying things like the average person without hyperhidrosis does.

In this exact moment my hands are sweating. Using my phone is difficult, typing becomes harder bc you'll press one letter and the humidity from your finger on the screen types two other different letters and it slows you down. Not to mention the general discomfort it brings.

The hobbies part is honestly the worst for me. I love drawing but I'm stuck wetting the pages of my sketch book. I love air dry clay but you can't wet it too much otherwise it becomes difficult to use. I love crocheting but the yarn gets stuck on my finger and it doesn't run smooth so the process is slower and the stitches become either too tight or too lose. I love doing tiny things with paper like a mini bday paper cake or paper stars but wet paper rips and wrinkles easily. I'm learning Japanese and like to write down the things I'm learning but again, it's hard when I can't grip the pen properly and when my hands wet the entire paper.

In addition to the eating issue, it's also hard to cook. Then there's general things. Your hands get sticky even when they're not sweating profusely. You need to hold things like device's that you should be holding with dry hands. Getting paper bags from the bakery that start to dissolve in your hand. Plastic bags/objects that start to slip off your hands because of how wet they are. You can't touch your hair to put I up in a bun or even just brush it because it gets glued to your hands.

And then there's also the embarrassment. I feel bad when my little sister wants to hold my hand because it's all sweaty and i know it's a weird and mostly disgusting feeling. Usually my classmates never liked me because i was kind of the weird kid. It only made it worse that we would have physical education and need to hold onto each other for whatever the fuck reason and my hands would be sweaty so they'd be disgusted to have to touch my hands and I get it, its not a good feeling but it made it even the more embarrassing to do that class.

Your hands may be dry one second, but let's say you want to tie your shoe laces. Trust that in less than a minute your hands will be dripping.

Hyperhidrosis makes you feel unworthy of touching people and also makes you uncomfortable when others come to touch you because what if you're sweaty when they do?

Use tissues or towels to dry your hands, the second you put them down you can FEEL the sweat coming through again. It's not that bad in the winter. It mostly only shows when I'm exerting myself or something like that. But on summer it's hell.

I have pets. Budgies and Degus. It is so sad that I want to touch them but it feels weird for me and then because the feathers/fur get stuck to my fingers. Only one of my budgies allows me to pet him but the others get on my hand nonetheless and if my hand is sweating they grip it tighter but will eventually slip off and need to fly away. It's just so annoying. It pisses me off, it makes me sad. I hate having hyperhidrosis so much.

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

I really hope i can get effective hyper hidrosis treatment without having to wait years still. Most of the time I can't do embroidery, i can't see by hand, i can't touch food, i can't write on paper, i can barely ever read physical books it's so fucking annoying and disabling. I keep having to take off my thumb brace so i can wipe it dry. It makes holding my crutches a lot harder. Actually it makes holding most things harder. I'm always drying my hands off on my pants and shirts. And when it's at its worst i can't even use my phone because no touch screen can read it properly if your hands are literally dripping wet.

I hate hyper hidrosis so much

If there was a single thing i could change about my body, anything, i would take away the hyperhidrosis. Not the shitty joints or digestive system, not my circulatory system or my neurology issues, not the autoimmune bullshit. No, i would choose to get rid of the stupid hyperhidrosis.

[a-totally-reasonable-username]

I am so boredddd

It's been 5 days since i was last able to do anything but watch tv or read fanfic on my phone. At least got to soend some time outside with my family and i've had therapy appointments and stuff. But i can't actually do anything. No hobbies. And it's not even because my muscles or joints are fucked up or because of a cfs or pots flare up no it's gotta be because of a fucking hyperhidrosis flare up. I have palm hyperhidrosis because my connective tissue and autonomic nervous system aren't working how they should. And right now it's really warm, my body also can't regulate temperature so all that combined and i have to keep a towel on me at all times so my hands aren't dripping all the time. And using my hands aggravates it. So no hobbies. Including writing on my phone because there's a point where my hands get so wet touchscreens can't recognize anything correctly.