Anybody else with Lyme, Babesia, Bartonella and well you get the idea suffer from mostly excessive facial sweating?
I have for a long time now wondered why thought it was medications, early menopause from lyme but read that it has to the nervous system.
It has been getting worse (now on mepron/zithro for months) and very embarrassing.
I can just vacumm for 2 minutes and will be pouring buckets of sweat from my face. I have to take a washcloth with me everywhere to try to damp down my face from the 5 minute walk to work.
Dr. S does not get concerned about it but I am. Anybody else having this condition?
Just trying to see why, what and if it is lyme related or just another weird thing.
Thanks.
Posted by TheCrimeOfLyme (Member # 4019) on :
I'm going to have to say its a lyme OR toxin thing. I had hyperhydrosis that started when I was 16, under my underarms. ( You can get it in the face, under the arms, hands, feet, crotch area). I didn't get sick with lyme until I was 26. That doesn't mean I wasn't harboring it for all those years though!
BUT, after tons of antibiotics AND avoidance of aluminum that is in deodorants, my sweating has stopped, except for around my menstrual cycle. I found that if I WANT to sweat, I should wear deodorant. If I don't, I shouldn't wear any. So, since I am a woman and still "want to smell good", I can put lavendar on the OUTSIDE of my shirt near my underarms.
Oddly enough, I was testing for heavy metals and one of them that popped up was ... aluminum.
Long story short: I'm sweat free now. It was probably a combination of the lyme, and the overload of aluminum that caused my sweating.
Posted by tailz (Member # 10014) on :
You are electromagnetically hypersensitive like I am. I have OCD, and I avoid vacuuming now. Go figure.
I would highly recommend you buy a gaussmeter. I planted some shrubs this past spring/summer and noticed I sweat more digging beds on one side of the house than the other - the higher EMF side. I also tend to sweat in the car.
I planted some shrubs for a neighbor who had had a heart attack, and I really thought I was going to die right there - and she went and bought EIGHT of them. Her yard is sky high with EMFs! The sweat was POURING from my head!
I would concentrate more on reducing your EMF exposure since my hunch is that Lyme is caused by chronic EMF exposure. I don't think we will ever cure Lyme until somebody out there decides to listen to electromagnetically hypersensitive people like me and you.
Don't waste your time trying to find the right antibiotic. Your brain is probably toxic with iron from EMF exposure.
By the way, don't let those bozos try to blame it on perimenopause or menopause. Menopause is NEVER normal. Menopause, they are finding, is a 'type III' diabetes. And no surprise, EMF exposure messes with your glucose metabolism. So basically menopause is radiation poisoning, and for generations, they have allowed us to be radiated to the point where we can no longer perform one of our most basic female functions.
Posted by Soleilpie (Member # 8481) on :
From what I gather, type III diabetes does not affect the blood sugar levels, but the insulins levels in the brain.
I totally have the same problem, and it is worse since I started mepron/zith. My night sweats are EVERY night now; drenching, have to change PJs several times and sheets, blanket comforter have to be washed DAILY!!!! Eeeeewwww!
I also sweat profusely from the least little bit of exertion; I wondered about hot flashes (I;m 46) but they don't come on suddenly and the sweating lasts throughout the activity. I too have sweat just pouring down my face whenever I do anything.
AND the nightsweats have just started to really include my face, to the point where the running sweat wakes me up and I have to keep wiping my face.
you know what REALLY sucks; I can take all of these symptoms...well I don't really have a choice anyway...but why don't I have the ONE symptom I wish I had???? JUST one little teenyh symptom.....WEIGHT LOSS.