[Okay123]

Hey!
I’m a 16, soon 17, year old boy. I have throughout my life experienced ups and downs, but especially this part of my life is one of the biggest downs. I have always been the person who thinks a lot about what to choose, if I should do it or not and what people think of me. I am, at the moment, nearly finished with my 1st year in high school.

It all started at the end of the (minor school), at 9th grade, our class were about to finish. It was last school day, and we were going to take a costume on, and throw caramels to the other classes. After that, we went to a park, with all other that finished at that day, and we were throwing shaving cream at each other, very fun! At the evening we all ate together, and it was the first time for me to drink alcohol (get drunk) as well. I wore a shirt and I don’t know what happened but I apparently started to sweat a LOT in my armpits, and I got embarrassed by it, so I occasionally went to the bathroom to dry it out, and I tried to hide it. As the night went on I began drinking alcohol, and the next day I woke up at my home. Now all we needed to do at school was the final tests, and I sweated hell of a lot there as well, at one of my tests I even sweated through a T-shirt and a sweatshirt. It was here I started to be really confused at what was happening, because I have never sweated like that in my life.

Fast forward to summer vacation, I was going to a park, with a friend that I never really spoke a lot with but yea I was still going. I was wearing jeans, a T-shirt and a sweatshirt. This day was like the start of the high school he was starting on, so they learned each other before they started. When I was going home, I noticed that I had been sweating around my ***, which I thought was really gross, but this was just the beginning of that.

I was at that point also working in a ice cream shop, and at the start of the summer, or after the last schooldays – I started to sweat when I was serving ice cream, but that was just a small bit of what its like today.

I also started noticing that when I was going to fitness. I was sweating in my *** again when I was riding my bike to the fitness, that has again never happened before. My fitness place is like 5 km (3 miles) away from my home, and I always arrive with body all sweaty, I’m used to not be like that. When I’m done training, I am of course going to take a shower, and when I come out of it, drying myself with a towel, I still think I’m sweating, it is still coming even though I have been in shower and drying the water of.

My high school was a little further away from a bicycle ride, so I’m taking the train to school everyday, and at my first day, I of course was a little nervous – like who don’t get nervous at their first day at something? So yea, I got nervous, of various reasons, like im not used to take a bus, or a train, to school, and I didn’t know a singe person who was going to the school. So at the school I started to sweat a lot in my armpits, forehead, ***, and feet. This has forced me to wear adidas training pants almost all this year out, and I really don’t like it. It’s still like that, to this day. Another thing I have noticed, if I get asked in class, I also began to sweat. I am also the kind of person that don’t raise my hand so often in class, so my verbal grades aren’t the best – but not the worst either, but then I am good at the written.

So in the morning on the train, I am mostly sweating at my ***, and there is a lot of people on the train. Then one day when I was going home, there wasn’t that many people on, and I went for a ride home, WITHOUT sweating.

I have lately also been really, some kind of tired all day even though I sleep 7-8 hours a day. I feel like I don’t want to do anything, like that I just need to be at home, all the time, even if my friends ask me if I want to go with them I am hesitating a little bit, sometime I even says that I can’t, even though I am not doing anything the day. I’m maybe just not that easy to decide if I want to do something?

I am also working at a super market where I’m a service employee, im mostly putting stuff up and doing the service job. I have a shirt on and wearing jeans, in this case I’m mostly sweating on my ***.

As I said at the beginning, I am the kind of person to think about what others think of me, and I think that is why I sweat in the train when there is more strangers on it.

Even though I am sweating like that, I still made really good friends, that I also see out of school.

Actually I haven’t actually been talking to other than my doctor about it, she said that it maybe just was because of all the hormones?

Is this happening because I’m like nervous of my environment, or is it just some kind of anxiety? Like how do I fight this? Is it because of hormones? Could I maybe start raising my hand in class – since I maybe strengthening both my verbal grades and fight my nervousness/anxiety in a way. Is it just because I’m in a period where my body is changing a lot (puberty) and then sweat comes more frequently?

I really hope that somebody can help, since It takes away my focus for a lot of things in my life.

Thanks beforehand

[MusicLover82]

Excessive sweating is called "hyperhydrosis" (not sure if I spelled it right). I used to have it, too, when I was a kid. My arm pits were the main area that got soaked (huge circles in my shirts), so I learned quickly which shirts showed sweat and which didn't (I'm a female, so I had a lot of options of what types of fabrics and colors I wore).

It doesn't sound like you're having anxiety attacks or anything, right? So you probably don't need treatment for anxiety. I would say just find what color pants won't show the sweat. Black always works well to hide sweat. I know it's uncomfortable, but know you're not alone, and it will probably get better. I don't sweat nearly as much as I did when I was your age (I'm now 33).

[Nimportequoi]

Hey
I have a friend who also had a problem with extreme sweating. I never really noticed until she told me, and even then I thought like she's probably exaggerating a bit. But then she went to the doc and I learned extreme sweating really exists. O.o
She then got botox injected into her sweating pores (don't know if I am describing this medically correct, but think you know what I mean) and afterwards she didn't complain about the sweating thing anymore. There had also been another possibility, she could have had surgery, and then they would have done sth that would have stopped the sweating permanently (botox has to be renenwed every two years or sth).
So, there are treatment possibilties for the sweating thing. Hope this was helplful a bit.

[avlady]

sweating like you are doing now will go away after you go all through puberty i would like to think. i went through the same thing and i think i had it worse than everyone else. my shirts would get stains on them, and we didn't have much money in my family to keep buying new shirts. my hands would sweat too.