Hello, my name is Alejandro and I am South Florida resident. I have a medical condition called Hyperhidrosis (I am pretty sure that it is Primary Hyperhidrosis, which is the one that the person is born with). I have Palmer Hyperhidrosis, Plantar Hyperhidrosis, a very minimal Truncal Hyperhidrosis and sometimes I blush very easily (but I can manage the blushing). Palmer Hyperhidrosis really affects me in a negative way every day of my life. It is a daily struggle to function in society when my hands are sweaty and slimy or cold. I have tried Aluminum Chloride (Hypercare) on my hands only to have my hands get so itchy and have cuts all over my hands from the extreme skin drying that it causes. And after all that, my hands would still sweat. So I am now using the R.A. Fischer MD-2 Iontophoresis machine. It has given me about 30-37% improvement in a decrease of hand sweat, but sadly that’s no were near enough. The only thing that I have tried for my Plantar Hyperhidrosis has been the Iontophoresis, which did not work at all. In fact, it gave me these plantar warts which are now going away with some wart remover medication. I am 20 years old and I attend Miami Dade College and I would like to earn a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics as I believe that a good diet can help everybody live a healthier and happier life. But my Hyperhidrosis really hurts me earning my degree as it is very hard and frustrating to be writing in a piece of paper working out chemistry problems while having my hands covered in sweat. The Trunkal sweating is very minimal so it doesn’t really bother me much. The Plantar sweating causes me to get athletes foot and inhibits me from wearing any sandals or shoes without socks because I will slip out of them. Oh yea, and the iontophoresis actually gives me mild compensatory sweating on my back, trunk and in the back of my knees, which is not very fun. Again Hyperhidrosis causes me a lot of stress, anxiety and sometimes depression. Hyperhidrosis is known as the “silent handicap,” because when the persons hands get sweaty they don’t want to touch anything or anybody and they usually don’t look for any medical help. My aunt, 19 year old neighbor, 2 people in my college and some other random person that I know are the only people that I personally know have hyperhidrosis. Hyperhidrosis affects 1-3 % of the world population, it affects both sexes equally and every ethnicity around the world. Thanks for reading this all the way through, I know that it was long, but I wanted to cover as much as I possibly could. And by the way I would rather be cured from this horrible condition than win the lottery, being cured would make me so incredibly happy. Please get back to me with any information you might have on Hyperhidrosis.
Also to anybody who wants to talk personally with me about Hyperhidrosis my email address is
alexsafc@gmail.com and I feel like the HH community needs to be together in order to inform all doctors, universities, scientists and also the whole world because that way there will be more treatments, research and hopefully a cure!!!!!
Most people don't know about this frustrating condition. I have emailed the University of Miami and Harvard (medical areas) in order to get HH out there. I would like the Administrator of "no-ets.com" to get back to me to see what we can do together. And btw i was pretty close to scheduleing my surgery until I landed on this website about a year ago. Thanks.