- Yeah man, tips for living with sweaty pits.
Let's get into it, let's roll that intro.
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Hey everyone, it's me Hallease endeavoring
to not perspire as much as I do.
So yeah, this video is about hyperhidrosis
and how I live with it and a few of the things I've done
to sort of adjust my lifestyle to it.
I developed hyperhidrosis basically
as another form of reaction to the anxiety
and general nervousness that I have
in new situations or stress from work and things like that.
So when I was younger my stress sort of manifested itself
in bouts of IBS.
Say if I was nervous about speaking in front
of a lot of people, or doing anything like that.
I wouldn't appear nervous to people
but I would immediately really feel the urge
to go to the bathroom.
And then as I got older, it sorted of shifted from IBS
to heart palpitations, so when I was in high school,
I was drum major in band,
and with that came a lot of responsibility,
leading the band, blah blah blah blah blah,
all that kind of stuff, I was a nerd, yes.
And I would literally touch the door in the mornings
of the band hall to go inside,
and my heart would just start racing,
and that happened like everyday for two years.
Once I kind of hit my mid 20s or so,
I've realized that now my anxiety and stress
has manifested itself in excessive sweating,
which is what hyperhidrosis is.
It literally means sweating a lot.
Most people that have hyperhidrosis
it tends to be either in the pits
or the palms of their hands, or their feet, or their head.
And it can be caused by a variety of different things.
Like I said, mine is stress and anxiety based.
But some people it's based on the food they eat.
Caffeine is known to kick in sweating.
If you're eating really spicy food,
maybe that can make you sweat excessively.
It's mostly just about managing it
through a variety of different things.
So I do two things to manage my hyperhidrosis
and keep it in check.
The first thing is I use
a prescription grade antiperspirant.
So most antiperspirants when you go to the store,
are a combination of deodorant and antiperspirant.
So they smell good, and then they also have
some kind of aluminum function to them
that essentially clogs up the sweat glands in your pits.
And that's how it works.
And it's usually anywhere from 12 to 16% aluminum.
I use Drysol.
It's 20% aluminum, so you can't just buy it at the store,
you have to have a prescription for it.
It's a topical liquid, and I basically put it on my arms
every other night, or now I'm at the maintenance dose
so I only put it on my arms once or twice a week.
And generally I'll put it on the night before
I know I'm gonna do something stressful
like be in a room with people I don't know,
and things like that.
So I have the antiperspirant that is stronger
and it's used at night and all of that
but I still want to smell fresh during the day.
And so with that, I use a deodorant
which is not an antiperspirant.
Even though I am online, I still get influenced
by people just like the rest of y'all
and the deodorant I use is actually one that was recommended
by Evelyn from the internet via her IG stories
a couple months back I think.
And it's by Crystal.
It's their invisible solid deodorant.
It's lavender and white tea.
I really love the smell of this deodorant.
It's just like fresh, fresh baby smell
but like feminine too.
I don't know, I just really like it.
I put this on in the morning
and then depending how intense my day is,
I might also put it on in the afternoon.
But usually I can go a whole day and be OK.
I will say though that the liquid version of this
was not working.
I felt like I put it on after, and after like an hour or two
it was as if I hadn't put on any deodorant at all.
Another deodorant line that I also really like
which is pretty affordable too, is by Arm & Hammer.
They have a few different deodorants
that are not antiperspirants.
And they all have different scents
but I feel like all of the scents
are very gender neutrally kind of scents.
Of their deodorant line,
I generally reach for the unscented one.
And I reach for it because even though
it's technically unscented,
it basically smells like what products are in it.
Which is, there's germanium flower in it,
am I saying that right?
Geranium. That's how you say it.
There's geranium flower in it.
Orange peel extract and things like that.
So it has a very clean, slightly floral,
just fresh sort of smell even though
it's technically unscented.
So yeah, so that's the first part,
is a medicated antiperspirant
combined with a daily deodorant.
The second thing I do is I've adjusted my wardrobe a lot.
My general fashion sense now is a little bit more
I would say,
tomboyish meets prep, meets peasant vibes,
meets slight modesty,
meets...Reebok.
I don't know.
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I think erring more on the sight,
giving you ever, and ever so slight androgynal kind of feel,
but also having just a decent silhouette.
And the point of that is to create just air.
Space for, literally space for the fabric
to not be against my skin, if you will.
And someone else who also have hyperhidrosis is Jackie Aina.
She did a video about how she has adjusted
her wardrobe based on her hyperhidrosis.
Very different fashion sense.
Bamboujee, you know what I'm saying?
She's like showing off the curves, tight,
looking right, all that kind of fun stuff.
But she's learned how to adjust
even with her hyperhidrosis to that fashion sense.
So that's why I'm referencing that video.
And I tend to go for clothes, pieces of clothing
that are as much cotton as possible,
and or linen.
I find that linen is really good about
almost kind of sort of like moisture wicking things
away from your body.
And then also linen really doesn't usually show
the sweat stains as much, or as easily
which is really nice.
So if I'm ever in a store and I see a piece of clothing
that is a cotton linen blend, or leaning more
towards the linen side, I get a little excited
and I think about, I think critically like,
can I buy this piece right now?
I tend to try to buy pieces that aren't necessarily
on trend, but more timeless where you can kind of drop me
in any decade more or less, and I won't be
necessarily out of place, but I also won't be
specific to that decade I think.
Not fashion forward necessarily, but in fashion.
Those are the two main ways that I have learned
to sort of adjust my life with hyperhidrosis.
The other thing I would say you can do is
start a sweat journal so that way you can figure out
what triggers you.
For me, like I said, my trigger is stress and anxiety.
And I have picked a career path
that is very stress driven.
So that's just the life I have to live now.
But maybe again, something for you is that
food triggers your hyperhidrosis and things like that.
So that's maybe there's a way you can avoid it unlike me.
So keep a journal and see if that helps.
In the comments below, if you live with hyperhidrosis
and you've learned a few other tips around clothing
or adjusting your lifestyle accordingly,
let us know so that way we can help each other out
living our best sweaty lives.
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Thank you to the Patreon producers of this channel.
As always it is because of you that I can say,
I'll see you on Friday.