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sweating

autileaf

hi i apologise this may be a bit too tmiey

i always find myself sweating particularly under my arms. sensory wise, it is an utter nightmare and i can feel it the second it touches my clothes meaning i constantly feel the need to change my tshirts. 

i switched to spray deodrant/anti-perspirant but it is still incredibly agitating. 

i get it may be normal to sweat but it's just the fact that i can feel it immediately and like i can't deal with it touching my clothes. 

anyone else get this and if so, do you have any advice??

  • When is was younger I used to have uncontrollable sweating on my head and face, especially over my forehead.  Deodorants were impractical.

  • Unfortunately, as you say, perspiration is a normal biological function, mainly (but not exclusively) to do with the regulation of body temperature.  Everyone sweats.  Failure to sweat would probably indicate a life-threatening level of dehydration.

    I also used to have an issue with it, for about a decade.  I have no advice on how to overcome it because I have no idea why it changed for me.  I still sweat, like everyone else, but for some reason it doesn't bother me.  It may be a coincidence but I started visiting hot countries and regions a lot, for business, around the time my concerns about it gradually stopped (the Middle East and Arizona in particular).  

    I would leave a hotel room showered and actually strategise how to get to the car (in blazing sun) with minimum exposure to heat; if possible I'd start the engine, crank up the aircon, then wait in an ariconditioned area with a view of the car whilst the inside cooled to glacial levels.  I wore my hair extremely short, then, because long hair makes it worse.  But even with all that, and the extensive use of "products", by the time I'd driven to a meeting my shirt would be sticking to my back.  

    I believe if you live with this all the time your blood thins, which helps, but I was still living in the UK and commuting with a lot of air miles so I doubt that happened to me.  I was aware, of course, that everyone experienced the same.  My showering increased to several times a day (quick showers, efficiently conducted, lukewarm water not cold), and I still do that, but also I just began to stop worrying about it.

    If you have normal levels of hygiene - showering once or twice a day, after activity, before social events etc etc etc - that's all you can do.  You're managing it in exactly the same way as the rest of the population.  

    I'm guessing you already know this, but if it's a particular issue for you, your focus for any professional support or self help should be on how to manage it, not how to stop it.  

    Wishing you well.