I'm getting medical help

I finally broke down and set up an appointment with a dermatologist. The appointment isn't until August, but if I've lived with the excessive sweating this long, what's a few more weeks.

No luck!

Certain Dry isn't going to work for me at all. I gave it a try as directed and put some on before I went to bed. In the middle if the night I woke up with burning under my arms and got up and washed it off as best as I could. The next morning, I woke up to a painful rash under both arms.

The good news is that the rash went away by the next day, but it's back to the drawing board. I guess it's time to get some serious help if I'm going to beat this sweat problem.

You need a prescription for Drysol

Good news and bad news. As the title says, I couldn't buy Drysol without a prescription. Its active ingredient is a 20% Aluminum Chloride solution.

The good news is that I found another product that has the same solution in a smaller concentration called "Certain Dry." It's supposed to stop sweating as well. I bought some and I'll give it a try.

Sweating help from the Internet

Ok, I did a little digging on the Internet. It seems that there more people than I thought with a sweating problem. One of the common suggestions was a product called "Drysol." It's supposed to help you stop sweating.

I'm going to call around and see if I can find some.

It's time to stop sweating!

I have been suffering from excessive sweating my entire adult life, and I've decided that it's now time to stop sweating for good!

Back when the sweating started, I was a teenager, and the extra sweat was so embarrassing! I tried everything to hide it. No antiperspirant would stop it, so I tried some pretty crazy things:

• I wore a jacket year-round; since I lived in Florida, this was miserable for most of the year.
• I tried stuffing napkins, paper towels, toilet paper, and even sanitary pads under my arms.
• I went almost six months with washcloths stuffed under my arms.
• I tried every over-the-counter solution I could find (nothing worked)
  
• I even tried some type of herbal solution that was supposed to tighten the pores (it didn't work).
• I gave up!

So what have I been doing since then? I've been wearing one or more undershirts year round. Does it work? Obviously not or I wouldn't be writing this blog! Most days I have to change an undershirt at lunch, so it's quite a pain. Likewise, sometimes I can feel the dripping when I'm giving a presentation at work; I absolutely hate it!

I'm going to try to figure out if there's a solution to my problem, and share the journey with you, then Internet reader. Maybe there are others out there with the same problem and we can find a solution together. Let's just stop sweating!