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‘Tis the Season For Social Anxiety Fa la la la…
Posted by: · on November 30, 2010 | CommentsWell, it is official now that Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the newer kid on the block Cyber Monday have all passed… Holiday Season 2010 is Here. Yay.
Bring on the Holiday parties, frenetic shopping, office parties (I hear they are making quite the Comeback this year). Not to be a Scrooge, but for many of us with hyperhidrosis, ‘Tis the Season to dread.
Parties, for other people, are opportunities for fun and something to be anticipated. Parties for us are something we pretend to get excited about. We fake a smile with our arms glued to our sides. Cold drink complete with sweating ice cubes clutched in right hand, thankyouverymuch. Cursing inwardly the stupid STUPID decision to wear red satin…
Sound familiar?
OK, well if you’re a guy, I do hope the red satin part is not a memory for you… not that there’s anything wrong with that (Jerry Seinfeld reference 
)… My point, and I do have one– wait, do I? Oh yes, the point is… I get it. Have lived it, too many times to want to count. And I would like to give you a little pep talk and a couple of pointers.
Please don’t feel like a freak standing there feeling all awkward at a holiday party. Put the stupid-ass sweating in its stupid-ass place and have fun anyways. Don’t give hyperhidrosis the power to ruin your evening.
Look around the room and if misery loves company, consider that statistically, you are probably not the only person present with hyperhidrosis. Three people in a hundred– and that number is conservative (IMO). You could even play a little game with yourself. Such as, Guess the Sweater (and I don’t mean knitwear).
Dress appropriately– wear the appropriate foundation wear. Guys, undershirts are made that will conceal the sweat and keep you comfortable! Check out my article on Men’s Undershirts. Ladies, there are dozens of options for you. So many, in fact, that my article on Women’s Undergarments is too long for my liking– but I wanted to show you just how many options you have. You can really wear any neckline, sleeve, or color. The feeling of confidence just knowing you are wearing something that will manage the sweat will actually make you sweat LESS. Unless it’s like 95 degrees in the room or something. In which case everyone else will be sweating, so who cares? See? Misery does love company.
If you find yourself sweating, say so. Yes, that’s right. Say. So. Casually. It totally takes the edge off and you get a little sympathy, to boot. I swear. The key is to be really casual about it. When you put it out there, you feel better, and often it will make the sweat production slow down.
So have fun, kiss someone under a bunch of dead leaves, clutch your sweating drink in your sweating hand, and thumb your nose at hyperhidrosis.
HyperhidrosisAndMe Weekly….er, Flashlight
Posted by: · on September 15, 2010 | CommentsIf you subscribe to this blog, you may have seen my HyperhidrosisAndMe Weekly Spotlight. I like to use this to highlight different pages from this site, giving special attention to treatment options, certain topics, as well as some favorite products of mine. This week, I must confess that my intention was to update hyperhidrosis clothing options for Fall, for both men and women.
Honestly? I struck out. I spent all day Monday searching high and low for great no-sweat-marks clothes for this season, only to come up with only a couple of possibilities that need further research (golly, a brick-and-mortar Shopping Trip, perhaps?).
It is baffling to me why more clothes are not available for this problem! It is frustrating because I have found in my research that the technology exists. There is an eco-friendly fabric treatment– which can be used on any fabric– that claims to absorb moisture next to the skin and minimize sweat marks from appearing on the outer side of the garment. It was developed by a German company called Schoeller and the treatment is called 3XDry. I have mentioned it before on this site, having found a few clothing manufacturers that use it.
These companies make clothes for outdoor active wear, and are mostly made for fly fishermen! So, if you are a fly fisherman with hyperhidrosis, you are in luck, my friend. There are a few decent looking shirts for men that could be considered to be dressy-casual– Woolrich has a couple, and Simms had a few earlier this year, but their website displays very little 3XDry right now. Sierra Trading Post frequently sells 3XDry products for both men and women, but they too have very little to offer at the moment.
Of course, we have the Good Ol’ Standbys:
- Sweaters (ironically named, no?),
- Blazers to hide sweat marks, although they may make you hotter (no, not sexy hotter– well, maybe; hell, I don’t know you)
- Sweat absorbing foundation wear (see my pages on Undergarments!!)
- Colorful patterns to mask the marks
- Nylon mesh fabric (like Sweet Pea by Stacy Frati), if you can find it this time of year; I could not.
- And, our Old Friend…. Black!! (so, so sick of black)
There was also a new company I found online that touted dress shirts for men that would not show sweat. Fresh Max claims that theirs are the only dress shirts in existence to disguise sweating. I plan on contacting them for more information– if their claims hold up, that would be great news!
So I guess this week you got a flashlight when I wanted to give you a Spotlight. I will keep looking for solutions!
HyperhidrosisAndMe Weekly Spotlight: Men’s Undershirts
Posted by: · on July 12, 2010 | CommentsI have tried to make this website as comprehensive as possible. You can find clothing and products that can help you manage your sweating episodes, strategies for coping, and personal stories that you can identify with. I have also tried very hard to explain what your legitimate treatment options are. While I have tried to make it as easy as possible to navigate through all this information, I think that some things may be hard to find. So, I thought that it would be helpful to spotlight one category each week!
This Week: Men’s Hyperhidrosis Undershirts
The page I created for this category addresses several aspects of this topic: for example, fabrics that are available and which ones are better suited for hyperhidrosis control.
FACT: Did you know that wicking, high performance fabrics are great for working out or casual wear but absolutely the WRONG thing to wear under your clothing? Wicking fabrics grab your sweat from the underside of the garment, transferring the moisture to the outer surface of the fabric, where it can evaporate. If you have a shirt on over that, what happens? Yep, the moisture is then absorbed by your dress shirt, creating a sweat ring even more rapidly than if you didn’t have an undershirt on at all. So, keep the performance fabric to the gym!
Another topic I explain on this page is Fabric Treatments. Two of the companies that I discuss on the Men’s Hyperhidrosis Undershirts page have sweat and/or odor control properties in the fabric.
Kleinert’s uses Fabrapel, which among other things, has anti-microbial properties, and Silverback Apparel treats one style of its undershirts with silver, which is naturally microbial, and the other type is made from bamboo, which is also naturally anti-microbial.
Sweat absorption is another very important quality for a good hyperhidrosis undershirt to have. Three companies that I discuss address this a few different ways: Kleinert’s offers undershirts treated with Fabrapel, which aside from being anti-microbial, also is sweat resistant. This means that sweat that is absorbed is contained and is less likely to appear on the outer surface of the garment– preventing sweat marks on your outer shirt.
Dress shields are offered by two companies: Kleinert’s offers them as additional protection to the Fabrapel treatment, and Advantagewear by Advadri
Silverback Apparel takes a somewhat different approach: their undershirts offer a double layer of protection under the arms and also on a large area of the back. This is a very good option for the man who suffers from Compensatory Sweating (as a result of ETS).
I will be offering a review from a new Men’s Undershirt company, called Sweat Shield Undershirts. From what I know, it is a very promising product at a really good price point! They have kindly sent me samples and I will let you know how they hold up as soon as I can.
So there’s a snapshot of my page on Men’s Undershirts for Hyperhidrosis…. be sure to check it out, as there are a few more things I explain, such as cut and necklines– who offers what.
Next week, Footwear for Hyperhidrosis!
