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Constantly flushed, red face and sweating

  • 13-07-2013 5:30pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hands up I'll admit it, I'm not the fittest and a few stone overweight for an average height guy. I'm 15 stone and aiming for 11 stone.

    Working on my fitness and diet and the weight is coming off steadily.
    I do gym classes and I'm sweating 2 minutes into the warmup and drenched in the sweat by the time class is over. But that's the gym so that's grand.

    I simply cannot even walk for a few minutes without sweating lately. I work in an office and I walked a few minutes up the shops and came back and my light blue shirt had wet sweat showing on it. Very embarrassing!
    I know it warm but this was less then 5 minutes walk.
    Sure I'll switch to darker shirts but I see people sitting outside in the square or the grass just relaxing at lunchtime and I don't think I can do this.

    I know it's over 20 degrees in Ireland but this isn't a new issue for me, being going for years and in cooler times too.

    I could be carrying some folders and boxes a couple of hundred metres around the office to storage and I'll sweat. Walk 20 minutes to the Luas stop in the mornings and sweat flowing down my back and I wipe down my face constantly.

    I don't feel the cold ever. I can happily walk around my flat in a T-shirt during the winter or cycle to work on a dark winters day in shorts and a GAA jersey. I don't even own a winter coat.

    My face is constantly red, even sitting at home watching TV and doing nothing demanding. Are some people just normally warmer then others?
    I've been very fit in the past and weighed about 10 stone and very little body fat and it was still the same, sweating like mad.

    I don't drink coffee, I don't realy know any other causes. Sick of the embarrassment in the office though.


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  • #2
    araic88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 313 ✭✭araic88


    Well done for working on your fitness and diet. I think if you stick with that alone it could help, but you do say it was the same when you were very fit.
    I'd say it to your GP, I've googled hyperhidrosis / excessive sweating in the past (I sweat a lot at night time due to a medication so it's a bit different to yours) and there seems to be a range of treatments available, it's not as uncommon as you'd think.
    Good luck!


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