I have a condition that affects about 1% of the population, called hyperhidrosis. Specifically, palmer hyperhidrosis.
For those that are unfamiliar, it is basically excessive sweating of certain areas of the body. You just sweat for no reason. My hands sweat, even when I have no anxiety what so ever (not hot, not working out, etc). The sweat causes me to become anxious, instead of the other way around.
There are different flavors. Feet, armpits, chest, etc… but mine is the palms of my hands. Making formally meeting people not as smooth as it should be. Dealing with it has been a business/social nightmare. People assume that I’m nervous or awkward when I am not at all.
It can be the -20 degrees in the middle of January. I’ll just be sitting waiting for the bus, or something not too stressful, and my hands will start literally steaming. I like to pretend I’m a wizard. It makes people laugh.
There are only 3 known treatments that I am aware of.
- $10,000 surgery
- Aluminum poisoning
- Electric shock therapy.
Obviously none of those things are realistic.
However, there is something I’ve noticed that is one hell of a coincidence.
I have been using various Androtics Direct products for a few weeks and I must say my hands are much drier! I can actually shake people’s hands without getting slime on them!
I think that there is some kind of feedback loop between the sweating and pheromone regulation! It seems as if (without pheromones) my body is trying to maintain a certain (very high) level of pheromones. When the artificial pheromones are applied, my body seems to say “ok, that level seems to be high enough, you can stop sweating now”
Is there anyone else out there with this condition? Or has anyone else noticed anything like this???