Hyperhidrosis--Excessive Sweating

@wittynet Thank you for asking about my son. He was first diagnosed with the condition when he was 3 years old and it was specifically related to his feet. Back then, they used a lot of band-aid types of treatment that do not provide long term solutions such as topical medication that is supposed to dry out the skin. Eventually, his hands became involved and it was such excessive sweating that he couldn't do homework and other work in school that involved the use of paper---the sweat would literally drip and soak the paper, curling it and removing any writing. He couldn't write on the chalkboard or dry erase boards because the sweat would smear anything he had written. He became self-conscious and it affected him socially. The doctors, of course, did not want to rush into the surgery so it was more band-aid treatments with medications and topical medications that did not work or would work for a few hours and then stop. Finally, when he was 17, the doctors agreed to do the ETS (Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy) and it was the best treatment for him. It does come with a side effect of secondary sweating, meaning other areas of the body can and do excessively sweat like his back and back of his legs, but he can manage that more than having drippy hands that were always sore with the skin peeling away from always being wet. He is now 28 and still doing well with the sweating under control.

Thanks for the info. I have a son that has had the condition since birth; So, I have a wealth of information on this topic, and the treatments they have attempted over his 19 years.