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I know all too well how you feel. I have tried eveverything but surgety. I read every response to your post and have, to one responder, tried Botox. I guess it doesn't work for everyone!
Living in Michigan winters are cold. I don't wear winter coats and don't even look at clothing with long legs or sleeves. Quite frankly, if I had the guts, I'd just go away and not come back. Everything I do is drippy and exhausting. Like others, this isn't my only health problem. -
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Jenny Dale, thank you so much for your post. I am definitely going to try them. Anyone who questions the use of this product really does not know how craniofacial hyperhydrosis can actually ruin your life. I first became aware of my problem in 1998 when my daughter asked me, “mom, why is your face so red”? Since then it has progressed every year incorporating a larger area, scalp, face, neck, shoulders and arms, back and chest, plus the intensity has increased so just going up the stairs at home results in sweat dripping off my face, I go grocery shopping and it drips on the floor, by the time I get to the checkout I am bright red, dripping sweat and so exhausted I can barely put the groceries on the belt. I have started to get nauseous and light headed, it is no help that my blood pressure is 110/60 normally and is often not able to be read. I am in Michigan and have not worn a winter coat in 3 years.
I have reached the point where I don't do anything or go anywhere. Being very frank, when I am in the midst of these events I wish I was dead and have considered life as intolerable. I have considered surgery but I always seem to be the one who if it can't happen it will happen to me. I recently had surgery on a thumb joint which had been horribly botched by an unqualified self proclaimed hand surgeon whom I had gone to on the advice of my primary physician so I slipped on doing my usual investigating on him. On the first post-op visit the surgeon who rescued my thumb, who had been doing hands for decades, had something happen in my hand that had never happened to him in his career, the pin he had placed had popped out of position and was just moving around doing nothing. He removed it at that visit. I have had physicians in the pain center, who know nerves better than any other type of physician tell me, very simply and emphatically, “don't do it”.
I can't wait to try the Maxim wipes. I am at the point where if I died it would be just fine, my life is ruined.
Even now I keep telling myself there has to be something everyone is missing. I have an appointment with an Endocrinologist in a week just to keep searching. I have waited 3 months to see the best in the department at UofM because I am through spending my time with physicians who don't know any more than I do. I have even travelled to Missouri for an appointment with Dr. Dee Ann Glasser, the supposed top expert in the field. Everything suggested failed. So here I am miserable, sitting my life away just waiting to die.
Thanks for your sharing of ideas. I can't wait to begin.
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