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Very pleased for you Shane, an excellent outcome. 🙂

Wish had been told by the NHS (England) about iontophoresis, would never have had ETS. 🙁

My advice to anyone; avoid ETS no matter what.

My thoughts and feelings are pretty much exactly the same as Alvin's – I had ETS 17 years ago, and the last 14 years (after the initial honeymoon period) have been an horrendous nightmare. The side-effects are ten times worse than anything I ever went through with excessive hand and foot sweating, and if I could turn back time I would have stayed…[Read more]

Hi.

My story starts with excessive hand and foot sweating from the age of about eight. I went through quite a bit of embarrassment at primary school, but it seemed ten times worse at secondary school. So, in 1998 I was prescribed Driclor (same as Drysol in US I believe) by a GP, followed by a solution (I think also aluminium-based) to bathe my…[Read more]

Hi everyone. I'm like Lisa in that I had the surgery (ETS and Lumbar Sympathectomy) around 15-17 years ago, and can say from experience that excessive sweating over large areas is horrendous at times. Without a doubt, compensatory sweating (at it's worst) is more of a daily challenge than excessive palm and foot sweating ever was I find.

In…[Read more]

Hi. It seems that unfortunately there has been no ‘cure' found yet for excessive sweating. Many times through the decades I think ETS (Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy) has been portrayed as a ‘cure', but having been through horrendous personal experiences with the side-effects of this awful operation I can categorically state that this is…[Read more]

I'd say the majority of sympathectomy stories that I've read have included some level of compensatory sweating. For me the CS is very severe (although I am probably in the extreme minority of having had a lumbar sympathectomy in addition to ETS!), and undoubtedly much, much worse – such as more embarrassing – than anything I ever went through with…[Read more]

Another big thing to remember too is that the internet has ‘only’ been popular fifteen years or so perhaps? I’m 31 now, and had my first operation at 15 years old. Back then it was presented to me (very wrongly) as the only alternative to a lifetime of dripping hands and feet, and so I had the surgery.
If I was 15 years old now in 2015 with…[Read more]

Hi. Have just signed up to the forum, so thought I would post my experiences of surgery for hyperhidrosis.
I'm 31 years old now, and it's nearly sixteen years since I first had ETS for palmer hyperhidrosis (followed in 2001 by a lumbar sympathectomy by plantar hyperhidrosis).
The operations were quite successful in terms of giving me dry hands and…[Read more]