• Replies 3 replies
  • Subscribers 28 subscribers
  • Views 2474 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

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??

Parents

  • 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.

Reply Children
No Data