eeek! i have sweaty hands but only when i think about how i have to hold someones hand.. when im by myself watching movies..my hands are SOOOO dry

when im out with a guy or with my friends and i know that hand contact is coming i usually have to wipe my hands down my jeans....or i refuse to shake their hands..it's gross.

Well i think i have the solution because i never had this problem before, now i have it but occasionally. (i usually have soft smooth hands when i'm not dating but when i am the sweating begins). It certainly has to do with emotions. If you love someone just tell him don't keep it inside you.

Also try staying away from the computer for a while because the majority of you use the computer a lot i presume. Try to go outdoors to the nature. Touch the trees, the earth from time to time, climb trees if you can because most of you here have stressful lives (city life) or emotionally unstable ones and haven't often had a chance to get in contact with nature. Hope it helps. by the way i find women with sweaty palms sexy. (i don't know if others also do):D

this is such a relief to find this site with all of this information and all these people who describe all the stuff i have been so embarrassed and isolated with for so long. i thought i was crazy to even type "sweaty palms" into google, but there is so much information out there. still i need a solution, but it is much better to just know that a lot of other people are dealing with the exact same thing.

im 35 years old and have been sweating on both my palms and feet since i can remember. Its really difficult trying to live a normal life like shaking hands with business associates, holding hands in church and so on. I cant tell you how much pain its brought me but i have managed some how. I wear shoes that have some sort of opening either at the back or front. I am found of buying shoes, slippers or sandals that are padded with suede-fabric so it soaks up my sweat. I have also learn to train my brain to stay calm, that way i dont sweat excessively but i have dozens of hankies & just recently, i've started excusing myself from holding hands by telling people straight-up that i sweat in my palms. It makes things easier to handle. I hopeful for a miracle... a cure some day.

Hi,

having sweaty hands is definitely not fun. im 14 (female) and i'm going into high school. i just made the cheer team, and of course im a flyer so i always have to hold hands to get in and out of different stunts it sucks! i can't tumble on the gym floor because i'm afraid i will slip because of the sweat. and worse of all....i have turned down about 3 guys i like because im embarrassed if they want to hold hands with me. now i like someone else and im told he likes me, if he asks me i dont want to say no, but i dont want to hold his hand either, and gross him out. i tell people i dont like people touching my hands, that its just a phobia of mine, but its so hard. one thing i heard of at cheer practice is that if you get chalk like baseball pitchers use, it helps, you just lay your hands in it, then rub it in, it doesn't turn your hands white, and not only will it stop the sweating, but if you do sweat it soaks most of it up.

good luck everyone, hope this works for you!

I am 20 years old and ive been having this sweating problem ever since i was little, i sweat excessively from my palms and feet and arm pits, it sucks so bad, cause if i have a girlfriend i can hold her hand without her thinking its gross, and i have to use foot powder every time i wear socks to stop athletes foot, i cant shake anyones hand, and it just sucks, there has to be a way to stop this, if anyone knows let me know please, oh and not thinking about it isnt a good advice at all, it doesnt work, their has to be some medicine that dries up your hands and feet

Im 14 and i have this problem as well whenever i see people holding hands in films and stuff i feel really upset so i know how you feel. but i just told my mum and it made me feel better and less stressed. im not saying it wont be hard i was really scared but when id started it was ok. I know its really bad but finding this site made me feel less alone i hope they find a cure soon

It really works if you dont think about it. sometimes the problem can be psychological. My problem stopped when i stopped worrying so much about it. Just keep your mind off of it and you wont even notice a problem.

im a 15 year old boy. and my hands dont sweat first thing in the morning. when im hot (ironically) or after i shower. but if i am sitting in class or at home. or just with some friends. and i start to think about them sweating. they will start and wont stop until my mind is off of them. do i have sweaty palms or is it purely psychological in my case?

gah..how i wish they found a cure for this.. God be with us..all..

I am 18 now (male) and i have had sweaty hands for as long as I could remember...my friends seem to find it funny..it gets to the point where I wish gardening gloves were a fashionable trend. I never want to touch someone (especially girls) and being in high school u can imagine its tough. I decided to try to write this post and search for a cure because I got close to a girl I liked and she wanted to hold my hand..but as u would guess I wouldn't let her (made things awkward...) =( It sucks being attractive but having these hands...seeing how I have already been through several surgeries due to sports related injury..I wouldn't feel so uncomfortable with the thought of the surgical option, but i wouldn't recommend it. Plz help :(

Hi

My name is mojtaba, I’m from iran .as you know the military service is mandatory in iran and unfortunately it takes about 20 months. according to one rule, when someone’s palms are sweating, he can get exemption from military service. my palms are sweating and I want to get exemption if I can. i went to the military service's doctor, he check my palms and said : your palms' sweat must be more than this one. is there any tablet , injection or ... that makes my palms' sweat more than this even for only 1 hour? the quality of your hyperhidrosis for getting exemption : you have to wash your hands, keep it in front of the fan for 3 minutes , after that if your palms sweat, you can get exemption.

With regards

Mojtaba .k

My hands make me sooo sad:( They ruin my life! My hands are pretty much sweaty 24/7. I always just tell people i have a hand phobia...which is actually true now i guess. But seriously...it stinks not being able to enjoy a high five, a hand shake, or a date because your hands are dripping. st church they hold hands and pray...i always have to leave the room or it in the corner by myself because my hands are too gross. my graduation is coming up and i'm going to shake a bunch of hands- i'm going to die. palmar hyper hydrosis stinks, we should all make it known so that we can get some respect or something so we're not so strange

hello,

its all in your mind. when you think about your hands that they will get sweaty they do. when you don`t think about it then they don't. so when you are in school just try to relax and dont think about your hands and try to stay confident.

I have also had problems with Sweaty palms my entire life. There are times when it is worse than others and my doctors and I are still trying to figure out what my triggers are. As soon as I am feeling a bit sick, or run down because of stress or other factors my hands and my feet sweat. I have found that keeping healthy and stress free keeps my hands less sweaty (not dripping anyways) and I have also found that alternative treatments such as acupuncture and Bowen therapy has great success in keeping my hands dry. Repeat therapies are required obviously but my hands were actually dry! Not even clammy but cool and dry, in my 22 years of life that has never happened to me but my Naturopathic Doctor was able to stop it for a short time anyways.

I'm a 17 year old girl and living in a state that is as hot as Florida, doesn't help much with my situation. Like most of you here, I suffer from sweaty hands and feet. Occasionally, my armpits will begin to sweat but it's only because I'm thinking so much about my hands sweating that I can't help it.

Ever since I was in seventh grade, I have noticed my hands sweat. I confronted my parents about it, but they just simply say "it's the nerves" and it will "go away". One could only dream it would. When they first started, I figured that everyone had to deal with it and that it was completely normal, but once I got into high school I began to see an increase.

High school is a stressful time of your life, but it can be even more stressful for people like us. People with sweaty hands, feet, armpits, heads, and beyond. For us, note taking is one of the most horrible things a teacher can present to us, as it will only result in a very sloppy copy of the information to avoid our hands sitting on the paper to create wet spots, our pencil to slip out of our hands continuously and our neighbor to notice the paper keeps sticking to the side of our hand. I know I dread it. Because I have to go through it every day.

Being the age that I am, I have been wanting to look for a job, wanting to get an advancement in my future career. But alas, I decide to pull away from the outside world and stay huddled in my home (which seems to be the only area I can remain in without my hands sweating.) instead of going out to fill out job applications. I'm afraid that if I do get the job, not only will I have to go through an interview with my employer, but I will also have to worry about actually doing the job and people noticing.

Of course, we really shouldn't care much about what people think of us. If they don't like us because we have sweaty hands, they apparently have bad character because they don't even bother to begin to know us from our personalities. They instead think "Ew" and leave us alone.

But surprisingly to you all, nobody really notices the problem. Usually when you're at school or work, everyone is so absorbed into their own thing they don't pay the slightest of attention to you. Even less, your hands. But even though all that is said and done, the thought is still going to linger in your mind, which will cause your hands to remain sweating.

I have tried many different ways to stop my sweating problem, and surprisingly enough it is the simplest of them all that has made the biggest impact. Don't believe the "urinate on your palms" technique. Does it work? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. I haven't been able to bring myself to do it myself. But by all means you can go for it an post if it works. But don't expect me to jump on the band wagon. I have experienced a few techniques that have definitely lessened the fact my hands sweat, but they don't deplete it from my mind entirely. It seems like a lot of you need these answers, so I shall present them to you.

Deep Breaths.

I know this sounds lame and some of you are thinking, "What does breathing have to do with sweating?!" But it has to do with everything. Whether you're completely comfortable in the environment, you are reading a book, or taking notes... one thing I have noticed that helps keep the sweating down is breathing. I don't mean regular breathing though, I mean deep breaths.

Of course I do not mean breaths so deep people are thinking you are about to dive into an invisible pool in the middle of the classroom, but I mean just strong, slow breaths. Ones that will help ease your mind and take your thoughts off of your sweaty hands for just a moment. Sweaty hands attacking you while you are taking notes? Sit down your pencil, quietly. If you want to slam it down, by all means do so, but I can guarantee you someone will stop and stare at you like you are crazy and it will only draw attention to yourself.

After sitting your pencil down, glance around the room or wherever you are. Read a poster on the wall, try to count how many redheads or blondes are in your class. Just something to help take the thought of "omg why they stop sweating" off your mind. As you do this, take deep, strong breaths. Let your body relax as you do this too. Relaxation and breathing are key to calming yourself down, and relaxing so that you are comfortable in the environment.

Don't believe breathing works? It did for me today in my Algebra 2 class. We were taking the biggest test of the year, and though I was not nervous at all about it as I knew my material, my hands were sweating profusely and I could barely keep the pencil in my hand. Has anyone ever tried to use a calculator when your hands are sweating?

Your mind becomes so overwhelmed with consciousness that someone's going to notice that glisten of sweat that lays on the side of your finger as you tap in the keys and it only seems to make the situation worse. I seriously wanted to just smash my calculator up to my chest and tap away in secrecy, where I was sure that no one would see. I could barely write the answers down and trying to work the half-page problems out on scrap paper was even worse. The second my hand laid on the paper, if I pulled up I would find splotches of wetness where it had previously been. But eventually I could not take it anymore. I sat down my paper and pencil and pushed my calculator aside. I closed my eyes and took about ten evenly deep breaths and thought about something other than school. And what do you know? I finished the remaining twenty questions in a breeze without leaking faucets coming out of my palms, but rather a light, cold sweat that seemed to not bother me at all.

Try it yourself, you'll see that it works. Most people who suffer from sweaty hands and the like notice an increase in the sweat when they start thinking about their hands sweating while they are doing something. You are afraid that it's going to get worse, so you start thinking about bad situations that may happen, or how you aren't going to finish your paper because you are smudging everything. Majority of your body will end up tensing up at these negative thoughts, resulting in your body's hormones reacting and releasing the sweat to help cool and calm the body.

Get in depth with conversation.

As I said before, majority of the major sweating or increase of sweating is because the mind wanders away with negative thoughts about it all. Try to get yourself into a conversation that people are partaking it, that way your thoughts will eventually roam away from your hands and they will be engrossed in the conversation as you take in everything everyone says. Distractions always help when it comes to reducing your sweaty hands.

Long Sleeves.

You may be thinking, "Don't long sleeve's end up heating you up more instead of stopping the sweat?" Well the answer is partially true, but did you think about the cotton fibers in your clothing that will help hide away and reduce your sweat? When you wear long sleeves or a jacket, your sweat has somewhere to go. It absorbs into your sleeves instead of lingering there on your hand, piling up until it looks like you dipped your hand into a bucket of water and didn't bother to dry them off. Of course, when you do this, you have to know how to do it right.

Don't go layering five long sleeve shirts under a thick sleeved jacket thinking it will absorb everything. Of course, it will... but it will also increase your body temperature as the day progresses, causing you to sweat even more under all those layers of clothing. You'll find yourself shedding off the shirts one by one throughout the day until you eventually are sitting shirtless in the middle of nowhere.

I see that it is the greatest help because it sort of "hides" your hands, and they aren't laying down on the desk for all the world to see. If you want to try this tidbit of information. here's how you'd do it.

Try finding a relatively thin jacket, one that will look like you are just trying to protect yourself from a small chill. Not one that hides your entire body and makes you look like an Eskimo ready for a blizzard. If you find a thin jacket, try finding a light or thin shirt to wear under it. I have experienced that if you wear a thick shirt and semi-thick jacket, you'll find yourself hot and wanting to strip it off. But in the back of your head your mind will be screaming "NO!" because that means there will be a chance that someone will see your hands. Of course, if it does come to the point where you need to take it off, sit it in your lap or tie it around your waist for easy access. Don't throw it on the floor where you won't be able to reach it again.

I have found that by laying my jacket in my lap I kind of develop a comforting feel. And not to forget to mention that if you hands start sweating, you can easily just rest them in your lap and hide them in your jacket. Try to pretend like you are neatly folding your jacket or adjusting it from a comfortable position, that way it looks as if you are fixing something when you are really just wiping off your hands so you can continue on with that nasty essay that's due at the end of the period.

Socks.

For those of you who have sweaty feet, and sweaty hands in some cases, you may have noticed that wherever you sit them they just wont seem to stop. You try to put them in the direction of a draft or a breeze, and yet the cold air only makes them worse because not only is it chilling your feet to the bone because of the sweat that is now freezing on your skin, but also your body will send more blood to that area in order to heat them. And everyone knows that where the is heat, there is sweat. At least in our cases.

One way I have found that has helped erase sweaty feet from my mind is socks. I love socks. I can't tell you what I would ever do without my socks. Many times I forget that I am even wearing them and the material soaks up any sweat your feet give off, and I can't tell you how great of a relief it is.

Before I found out about this obvious option in cutting down my sweaty feet, my feet used to drip sweat like a running faucet. I dreaded going to dances because I was forced to wear heels, not to mention I'm a lousy dancer. By now although, I am thankful the ballerina flat fad has come of age because they are all I wear now when I have to dress up nicely. But along with the socks, wear closed shoes.

If you have sweaty feet, for the love of all things holy don't wear open shoes such as heels or flip flops. They are only going to make your life a living nightmare because they are exposed for everyone to see. In eighth grade, I decided to wear flip flops to school and let me tell you. I don't think my feet stopped kicking because I needed that breeze on my feet so badly. Anyone who looked at me probably saw them as a blur because they were kicking so fast. But I tell you what, I never wore them again. Those shoes are hidden away in some crevice so far out of my sight in my closet that spiders and the like are probably devouring them as some type of food source as we speak.

Drink plenty of water.

You may think that drinking lots of water would cause your body to sweat more, as there may be excess water and your body needs someway to get rid of it other than the obvious fifteen trips to the bathroom to "relieve" yourself. Though in my eyes, I believe it helps tremendously. Not only does it cool down your body a bit when your nerves are acting up and over heating your body, but it also gives your hands something to play with. You can secretly wipe away any sweat on that wrapper that is around the plastic bottle and holding it can also cool down your hands if the water is cold.

Another use with the bottle I have found is placing it on your wrist. This may look silly to some people watching you, but I'm sure they'd rather see you playing with a bottle than fidgeting in your chair because your sweaty hands are making you scream throughout your head. If you place an edge or side of the cold water bottle against your wrists, maybe pretend like you are rolling it on your desk while listening to someone lecture or the like, you will instantly feel a relief and cut in the amount of sweat from your hands. The coldness helps, in a way, cool off the blood traveling through your veins that are exposed to your skin, along with your nerves. It helps relax you. And if you put it in with other techniques such as the deep breathing listed above, it can help even more.

Talk about it.

This may seem like the craziest, most reckless, and hardest part of suggestions, but I have to admit it works. My boyfriend and I have been together for over a year now and he knows everything about me, even my sweaty hands. Of course it was incredibly hard to tell him about it and I told him around two in the morning, but I felt so much relief after I said so and believe it or not... my hands never sweat when I'm around him.

Why you ask? It's because I've become comfortable. I can be relaxed and open with him now, instead of tense and shy away from every move he makes towards me because my mind is too occupied in thinking about the sweaty palms and pits hidden under my seven layers of clothes. And he accepts me for it all.

My boyfriend has taught me that no one is perfect, no matter how much everyone would like to believe. He has made me realize that everyone has their little quirks that are different from each other. And mine just happens to be sweaty hands. It could be a lot worse, couldn't it?

But other than my personal life, sit down. Talk to your parents, your best friends, your significant other and any one who is close to you as well. I'm not telling you to go around the world wearing a shirt that reads "I have sweaty hands!" but expressing your feelings and what's going on with your body to people who you care for and know care for you will reduce the stress insanely.

I was always tense when it came to my parents and friends about my sweaty hands and feet, and I was planning on telling them about it (and chickened out several times). But one day, I became so fed up with my sweating problem that I sat down with them and just blurted it out. Halfway into the conversation I then noticed what I had said and how I got there, and it immediately spread relief through my body.

It isn't going to be easy, I can tell you that right now. Working up the nerves to even say something will be hard enough. And obviously you're going to have thoughts in your head that revolve around, "What if I tell them... and they completely isolate me from them forever? What if I lose my best friend because they think it's 'icky'?" Well I can tell you right now what everyone else would say, that's for a fact... If anyone decides to not have anything to do with you because you have sweaty hands, they are NOT worth the time.

I can guarantee if you tell your best friend about your "problem", they will accept you in every way and more. Not only that but it will also build a stronger bond on your relationship because he/she understands that it is something you can barely speak about to your parents and you are sharing it with them.

I also guarantee that you will feel much more comfortable around the people you tell as I have. I'm completely comfortable around my parents, close friends, and my boyfriend because they know of this. I feel that I do not need to hide anything from them anymore and that they accept me for who I am.

Sweaty hands included.

So if you are suffering from these conditions, the least I can say is don't let it run your life. For a while it has run mine, but I am finally putting a stop to it. I will not let my sweaty hands and feet control what type of career I achieve, whose hand I hold or shake, and if anyone has a problem with it, let them have that problem!

It's part of what makes you, YOU. And no one can tell you otherwise. And always remember, you are NOT alone. Many people suffer from sweaty hands and feet. It's only up to you if you are going to let it control you, or you control it.

I wish the best of luck to all of you on stopping your sweaty hands. There are many other ways you can stop your hands from sweating out there and I encourage you to search for them as well.

I hope I could have been of some assistance to you all.

Does warm water and salt work? please help me!

Man, some people have it for life. It definitely comes to you genetically and a lot of people would still have great social life, date their girlfriends/boyfriends, do sports but when it comes to ceremonies, graduations, important events they would still go through hell to shake hands. Like my mother is having that for life, my dad too. But as for me, I found a solution: just do some work like carrying stuff, that stuff that build-up your hands, you know? Work-out. When you have soft-hands you are most likely to get sweatiness! But when working hands, not sitting around the computer with sweaty mouse.. Do stuff. Holding hands could be an issue too. Like the person you don't know, you don't what to expect. Like, I was once sitting in college lab and the guy came up to get social, he shook my hand but then he wiped it off his pants, because it was so sweaty since I didn't know him, I was browsing Internet right? I got so embarrassed. Or like some idiot asking you: "Why you always have sweaty hands?" What do you say back?

Everybody has this but in different quantities. Not to sweat is bad too. Imagine taking your socks to laundry, but they don't smell? Take it easy. Like that. I'm 21 and I still have it. Cold showers are not for me. It's crazy, dog. But, ironically, people with sweaty hands are the most real! I love U!!!

Folks! If anyone tries to get you to do surgery to 'CURE' your sweaty palms, feet, head, etc. run for the hills. My husband had this surgery for excessive sweating of the head and hands and his life was truly ruined. They've banned this surgery in other countries and, frankly, they should ban it here. The side effects are far worse than your sweating. Where maybe you sweat a lot from your hands, later you won't sweat from your hands, but you'll sweat buckets below your nipple line. It affects your heart and lungs and a host of other things. They're cutting or clipping your nerve ganglia and it's not reversible. Google "ETS surgery" or "ETS" before you ever consider that route.

Hi, I'm 15 years old and sweaty palms are becoming a pretty bad problem when I do social dancing in phys. ed. class. Thinking about sweaty hands and how i dont want them just makes it worse!

Does anyone know if this can be connected with Raynaud's syndrome?

hi guys, i've been into this problem ever since i can remember. during my teen days i never thought about it too much I thought everyone had it too. I had realized it was a big upset when my friends started to joke around. It was too embarrassing when someone wants to shake hands with you and tend to wipe out theirs afterwards that was too embarrassing. then my uncle told me about soaking your hands into warm water with salt. I tried it every night and it worked well but the cure is not that fast you have to do it continuously until you get satisfied. hope this helps

I am a 14 year old male in high school and I share the same problem with many previous posters! Sweaty palms and feet! I share the same social and functional problems with you guys and girls, but my problem is mostly functional. I keep smearing my writing.. -_- This is most annoying. The social impact is great too. :|

I don't believe there is any permanent cure other than surgery as of now, but I hope something works out soon in science. God be with us all.

hello.

i am going through a problem with sweaty hands.

its extremely embarrassing, and i dont like to be around anyone when it happens, in case of hand shaking. please help me! i need something to stop all the sweat. i would love it if i could go a day with dry hands! :)

God be with you all people, is as simple as this: start taking cold shower and you will see results in a couple of hours. Take care God bless.

This is the cure for all you ppl. Get a speaker magnet and hold on to it a couple minutes a day and you should be good. also washing your hands in vinegar. I personally find that if my feet are sweaty in my shoes then my hands will also begin to sweat. So i found out that bacteria causes ppl to sweat sometimes. So vacuum your carpet often, or just put socks on after you shower. I hope this helps.

I am a 15 year old girl in high school. I also suffer from excessive hand perspiration. Its really embarrassing when people try to give me high fives. And i used to go to a catholic school, so every tuesday we would have church and i would always be embarrassed to hold hands with anybody. I dreaded tuesdays!!!....i also get really hot easily. If i have a long walk to class, my body gets overheated sometimes and i might start a small sweat on my forehead (which is the worst)......please help.

ps- i am very relieved to know that i am not the only teenager with this problem. i know how all of you feel, and it sucks!

I have heard if you get botox on your hands it will remove the sweating, i am also a 16 year old with sweaty hands 80% of the time im anywhere. my parents tell me i have been like that ever since i was a child. i seen on oprah the other day that if you have sweaty hands it could be due to an illness such as diabetes or something, they also said to try to put antiperspirant deodorant on your hands, but if any 1 has any reasonable non surgery solutions im open for anything worth trying...

I have the same problem as most here, im a 16 year old female. School is definitely the worst time, although im not terribly nervous, my hands usually sweat whilst sitting down. As well as this though my hands always seem to be bright red, after any sort of exercise, even walking from class to class, its very embarrassing and people are always making jokes and i agree when the article says that sweaty-handed people smudge writing, its terrible! I can't shake peoples hands, im far too embarrassed and this will certainly have a negative impact on my future.

there is no history of sweaty palms in my family and i hope his means i'll grow out of it as it is severely affecting my self-esteem

thanks for the article though, was helpful

Guys, use drionic. I have been using it since one year and it keeps my hands so dry that I have to use moisturizer sometimes :-)

This is quite interesting, I frequently get sweaty palms, or heat up unexplainably... I also wake up in the middle of the night a lot and feel as if I am extremely dehydrated (I cant sleep without a glass of water by my bed). I have had this since I was little. I used to joke and say I was having a hot flash, even though I was probably only 8 or so when it started (thats as far back as I can remember having episodes like this). I would be curious to hear more about this... I also have other 'symptoms' that may be related to a malfunction with the sympathetic nervous system. I am startled very easily, to the extent where it is embarrassing. Its like I am always on edge, I jump or yell out with the smallest things (like someone 10 ft away coming around a corner and into my field of vision). My coworkers used to take advantage of this and see who could scare me the worst, it was quite comical to them, thank goodness I got a good laugh at my absurd reactions as well. I also sometimes get surges of what I guess would be adrenaline... where I feel like I need to tense up my muscles and release them constantly... this started a few years ago... I thought that I was having mini anxiety attacks... but have not spoken to a dr yet (im only in my 20s and didnt think this was that big of a deal). Anyone have any suggestions?

I suffer badly from sweaty hands and feet and not least sweaty armpits. My 4 year old also suffers from it as well. I mostly get sweaty feet when I am hot, not nervous or maybe when I'm overexcited. It is very embarrassing. And the thing about it is that if my feet or hands are not sweating I get uncomfortable because my skin just feel so dry so I need to put lotion on for it to feel ok and then that's when i start sweating again.

Alcohol dries your hands temporarily. Or you could try applying cornstarch before going out. I've tried that. But the results are very temporary

hello,

all i can say is... it's embarrassing whenever I try to shake hands with people who i don't know.. i usually have to warn them ahead of time.. like 'sorry my hands are sweaty'... my hands tend to get sweaty pretty much the whole day.. especially during the summer.. and whenever i get really nervous.. it's just pouring... out..

my feet also gets sweaty... not as much as my hands.. tho.. i've always thought i have bad circulation in my hands.. is there any cure besides.. having a surgery...

hello. I'm 14. and i have sweaty palms, sweaty feet and armpits. it's really hard for me to be confident with all this going on. i hate shaking hands with other people because their expressions are really mean and full of disgust as if it was my fault. my friends make fun of me sometimes and although i laugh with them deep inside it really hurts me. i've tried certain dri, pills and e few other antiperspirant, oh yea i had botox too. but none of that didn't work. although the botox did reduce the sweat it wasn't enough plus it was too expensive and u have to keep doing it every few months. i need a cure fast!!

I'm 16 i had sweaty palms as a kid never thought anything about it really, thought everyone had it. Someone said why are your hands so sweaty and i then realized it. Some people refer to it as clammy hands don't know why. Its an on and off thing. Although its weird in the morning my hands are almost too dry. Well if i ever shake someones hand i usually wipe my hands on my pant legs hope that helps. If someone doesn't want to be with you because sometimes your palms sweat, I might judge the character of that person. Thanks

I'm working on a cure

I too have excessively sweaty hands- it's been this way ever since I can remember. I get so upset when people say that it's caused by anxiety, they just don't know what it's really like. Anyway, I have tried to wash my hands a lot (didn't work), tried powders (didn't work), tried Drysol, you have to get a prescription (didn't work). I am now going back to a dermatologist to talk about other options. I hear there's some kind of oral prescription, there's also botox injections as a temporary fix and surgery can be done. Of course the last three cost $ and I'm not sure if insurance will cover the cost, but at this point I'll almost pay anything for a cure!

I'm the same Anonymous as the person two comments above...

I find that when I'm in school, my hands get sweaty a lot. But once I'm out or with my friends, they're actually okay! It's really strange. Does anyone have any tips or something to help me not sweat as much?

Thanks!

Well, I'm 18 years old and I have had sweaty palms ever since I could remember. I get nervous when I'm around a lot of people and the place that I'm in with this type of problem would be school. I would just like to get rid of this problem. I'm too afraid to ask a girl out due to the fact if she wants to hold hands, I can not do it for my hands would be all sweaty.

I agree with the people above..I'm 15 too, female..I don't remember having sweaty palms as a child. But maybe a year back, I started realizing how sweaty my palms were for no particular reason! I found that after showering, sleeping or exercise, my hands would be fine. But then it would get sweaty for no apparent reason throughout the day. Sometimes just thinking about having sweaty hands make me start sweating!

I really need a solution, and fast. It's embarrassing not being able to shake peoples hands...and going on dates, that's even worse!

I would just like to say that being a teenager comes with enough insecurities and having sweaty hands just makes life so much more difficult. Imagine feeling ashamed to shake someone's hand at church, give somebody a high-five, or just socially interact at school...It sucks. I've been dealing with this problem for almost a year now. Strange enough, I really can't remember how it started but i'm really interested in finding out why my stupid hands are doing this to me. help! If anyone has any suggestions of a treatment for this (this does not include surgery) please speak up. Thanks so much...

I'm desperate :|

maybe some of that gold bond powder?

Mitchum antiperspirant is a very powerful, non prescription tool to stop ( and i mean stop!) under arm sweating...it would almost surely work on hands, but I don't think I would like the feeling of having it on my own hands

Hello i am 18 and i have sweaty hands 80% of the day. Sucks-- help me out ? I am not nervous or scared i swear.

well i'm a 15 year old girl and have excessive sweaty palms and i have had this problem my whole life and i'm trying to look for a cure that doesnt involve surgery..and it's very embarrassing....i hate holding anything because my hands are excessively sweaty....and i don't know what to do to cure this.....

any suggestions?

thank you very much..this was a great and helpful article.

that is very true, but the grimace one has after you shake their hand with your sweaty, gross hand is just embarrassing. I don't know about the anonymous person but i do not want to get surgery to remove my sweat glands in my hands. That is just ridiculous; if you see anything please tune back into the discussion, thank you bigmetal

sweaty palms must be the pits! i have a friend who seemed to be a profuse sweater. i would ask my doctor for his/her advice. there may be prescription strength antiperspirant you can use, or some other treatment available. something like this should not change the way you want to live your life!

hello kind people, I was wondering if there is any medication to treat sweaty palms? I can't stand being so self conscious anymore about my hands before i shake someone's hand! It has gotten to be such a burden. I choose not to go to social events sometimes because I don't want to shake anyone's hand. Please tell me if there is any ointment or cream that can stop my problem.

hi! can you suggest some treatment. I am also experiencing sweating palms..

pls.. thanks..

do the same conditions apply to sweaty feet? i actually get sweaty feet when my feet are cold, and when i am pregnant. weird!