Dealing With Excessive Sweating

Living with excessive sweating can be absolutely dreadful. It's a sensitive subject for anyone who has it. For the people that do have it, they are constantly paranoid that a wrong move could cost them some serious embarrassment, not to mention their hygienic reputation.

Many mornings in highschool, I remember waking up and folding toilet paper into pads and tucking them under my arm pits after putting my shirt on just to get through the drive to school! Soon after I got out of the car and went to my locker. After putting my bags away I had to go straight to the bathroom I had to put dry ones in again.

On average, I went through about five to seven pairs of these makeshift pads daily. It was awful. I had to make sure that I never raised my arms too high, or I would be exposed. It made me depressed, socially nervous, and killed my self esteem whenever there was an active physical activity that would be present. I would just either sit out or pretend I was sick.

As the years progressed, I found that I wasn't having as frequent sweating spells that I once did as in highschool, but whenever I was around tense or uncomfortable situations it would come back twice as severe. I tried to ignore and avoid certain events where I would be subject to a sweat attack, but life is unpredictable and having a problem like this is hard to explain to anyone why you can't go out to certain places. I thought I could just put it off and it would soon just go away with time.

It wasn't until I tired to serve in a restaurant that I found out how life altering this problem can be. My first days training as a waiter in a popular local diner were a couple of the most shameful days of my life. Even before I clocked into work, I had very large sweat circles under and around my arms. People would immediately focus their attention on the excess sweat and would try to be courteous to me, but I knew it was a disaster.

On my last day of training, the manager came up to me and asked why I sweat so much, and I stood there with my head down in total silence and embarrassment. The look that she gave me was a very familiar one. It was a look of slight disgust and pity. I didn't get the job, but it ended up working for the best and I found something else that was better. However, the point still remains on how damaging excessive sweating problems can get.

Today it has calmed down quite considerably from the days in the beginning. Every once in a while I'll still have occasions where I'll be moderately sweating in tense environments from time to time, but it's nothing like how it used to be. Thank God.

By: Brett M.

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