Excessive armpit sweat

[strokes630]

Gross I know...just was wondering if anyone else has the same problem...


No matter what I do...I cannot stop from getting armpit stains in shirts. I am embarrassed to lift my arms cause 9 times out of 10, I'll be wet. I do use antiperspirant, but with no luck. Arrid XX helps a little, but still stains. I've tried Certain Dri which you put on the night before and it shrinks the sweat glands. However, I still have excessive sweating the next day!

Any ideas..help before I decide to wear black shirts every day!

 

[secondmonkey]

It's called hyperhidrosis, google it and then talk to your doctor. I have it very severely too, I have to change my clothes about every 45 minutes.

 

[dunno260]

I believe they can treat it with botox, but I am not sure about it. As the poster above said, talk to your doctor about it.

 

[rubyslippers]

Call your doctor and get a perscription for Drysol. It worked for me several years ago.

 

[SJB69]

Same thing...totally embarassing!!
Met a new new co-worker, and a HOT one at that, tonight at a work meeting and I had wet pits...felt a little embarassed!
A friend tried the doctor prescription thing and he swears by it...I will be talking to mine when I see him May.
Good luck and let us know how things turn out!!

 

[GaBoY20]

I understand your situation completely Strokes630 I have the same exact problem. Yeah you can get botox, but before you go that route try an Rx called HYPERCARE solution. It is a great aid in managing hyperhidrosis. I found complete satisfaction after only a few times of using the product. Much luck to you!

 

[justaguy1988]

I've dealt with it since the beginning of puberty. Its finally getting a little better thanks to puberty sorta starting to end and hormones getting back to normal. I used to soak the pits of my shifts no matter what. Even in the dead of winter I'd be sweating. It sucked. Ruined tons of shirts too. And the embarassment... I tried Maxim which is just like Certain Dri and it helped a little but it would burn my pits so easy. Finally I started shaving my arm pits and wash them good every night and use Right Gaurd Sport Clear Stick of a morning and don't sweat much at all. There will be periods I don't sweat at all and then the next day and for the next week or maybe a month I'll sweat quite a bit for no real reason. But honestly shaving helped more then anything. I was able to get the antipersperant on exactly where it needed to be. And now I have arm pits as nice and most women's except for the stretch marks around my left peck.

 

[bostonboy20]

I sweat a lot sometimes even when like i'm not even hot...it's the most random thing...but yeah i don't really know what causes it...but i don't think it's serious enough to go to a doctor

 

[PATMAN]

i used to have the same problem... and oddly enough i changed from antipersperant to deodorant and it fixed the problem... very odd since it should have been the other way around. Nowadays, if i wear a sweater with nothing under it i sweat like mad but if i wear a tshirt under the sweater all is fine... strange pits i have!

 

[3nipples]

You'll get salt rings on the black shirt; it may not be the best choice of colour...

 

[hopnung]

Get this stuff called Certain-Dri. Honestly, it works really well - it closes up the pores under your arms and trains you body to redirect that perspiration elsewhere in the body, which will, in essense, be nothing, since the armpit (x2) is only so much surface area.

I used it about 3 years ago - it took about 2-3 weeks to finally get my body to understand "DON'T SWEAT THERE", but since then, I don't perspire under my arms at all.

Good luck!

 

[fbrand12345]

as to the stain issue i read in men's health one time to get a deodorant/antiperspirant that doesn't contain aluminum