Odaban: Start of a Trial
Having little other recourse, I am trying some things my doctor suggested for the hyperhydrosis. There's this stuff called Odaban that they make in the UK which I ordered a while ago. It came a week or so ago, but I've been a little apprehensive about using the stuff--last time I used something on my hands to help with the sweating, they swelled painfully. From what I'd read, this stuff stings on application.
Today I bit the bullet and decided to spritz a bit on. You do this at night, they say, and so I put the stuff on an hour or so ago. It definitely has a little bit of a tingly sensation when you apply it, but I applied it the way they said to for sensitive skin, because I'm ultimately afraid of this stuff I've ordered. So far, no swelling. Supposedly I'll need to apply it every day if the sweating keeps up until it is "controlled," at which point I should only need to apply once or twice a week, "or as necessary." If this works, I'll have one less excuse for why I can't climb as well as Kerry does, but right now, my hands are not 100% dry, so I suspect it's going to take a little while before it reaches the "controlled" state. I'm not sure if I should try the experiment on my feet at the same time. I kind of feel that since they can be hidden away in socks and there's never a reason anyone needs to see or touch my feet, that can be relegated for later. And I have this weird imagining that the stuff that ends up not coming out of my hands inexplicably needs to be redistributed to the rest of my body somehow, which makes absolutely no logical sense (the individual pores do their own thing, as far as I understand it), but it's one of those things my brain imagines to be the case anyway. Like there's some kind of pressure inside of me that is alleviated by sweating, which definitely isn't the case. (Because if it was, there'd be blood coming out of my eyeballs, and possibly also my ears and nose. And wow, that would be messy.) If it works for my hands, though, I might try my underarms, because I feel like that would reduce the amount of anti-perspirant that ends up embedded in my clothing ._. I am a yucky person.
Now if only I could find a spray that fixes flaky climbing partners or could find me reliable companions to go do things with, this would be looking up. I think I'm probably not doing anyone any favors by holding back just how angry and hurt I am about that, and other things, with the people here locally.
Between that and the constant bummer that the housing market is here... I wonder if I shouldn't just move elsewhere. Except I can't stand the South, don't want to live permanently on the East Coast, and am not fond of (nor do I think I'd have an easy time finding employment in) the Mid-West or Central zones of the US. Most of the West coast is still California, which is going to be the same problems as this area of California, except with special locality quirks :( North of here is going to be colder and rainier, and there's no way I'll move back to Hawaii with my parents ready to swoop on by at a moment's notice :( I don't really see myself living happily anywhere else, but this place isn't happy with me living here, so... I dunno. Clearly, I should buy a raft and paddle out into the water and declare my own short-lived country or something. Because I'll run out of fresh water and food pretty quick. And something will probably puncture the raft, and I can't see myself surviving the cold of the water off this coast long enough to swim back to shore. But maybe that would be for the best--it would make for an interesting news story, at least.
Today I bit the bullet and decided to spritz a bit on. You do this at night, they say, and so I put the stuff on an hour or so ago. It definitely has a little bit of a tingly sensation when you apply it, but I applied it the way they said to for sensitive skin, because I'm ultimately afraid of this stuff I've ordered. So far, no swelling. Supposedly I'll need to apply it every day if the sweating keeps up until it is "controlled," at which point I should only need to apply once or twice a week, "or as necessary." If this works, I'll have one less excuse for why I can't climb as well as Kerry does, but right now, my hands are not 100% dry, so I suspect it's going to take a little while before it reaches the "controlled" state. I'm not sure if I should try the experiment on my feet at the same time. I kind of feel that since they can be hidden away in socks and there's never a reason anyone needs to see or touch my feet, that can be relegated for later. And I have this weird imagining that the stuff that ends up not coming out of my hands inexplicably needs to be redistributed to the rest of my body somehow, which makes absolutely no logical sense (the individual pores do their own thing, as far as I understand it), but it's one of those things my brain imagines to be the case anyway. Like there's some kind of pressure inside of me that is alleviated by sweating, which definitely isn't the case. (Because if it was, there'd be blood coming out of my eyeballs, and possibly also my ears and nose. And wow, that would be messy.) If it works for my hands, though, I might try my underarms, because I feel like that would reduce the amount of anti-perspirant that ends up embedded in my clothing ._. I am a yucky person.
Now if only I could find a spray that fixes flaky climbing partners or could find me reliable companions to go do things with, this would be looking up. I think I'm probably not doing anyone any favors by holding back just how angry and hurt I am about that, and other things, with the people here locally.
Between that and the constant bummer that the housing market is here... I wonder if I shouldn't just move elsewhere. Except I can't stand the South, don't want to live permanently on the East Coast, and am not fond of (nor do I think I'd have an easy time finding employment in) the Mid-West or Central zones of the US. Most of the West coast is still California, which is going to be the same problems as this area of California, except with special locality quirks :( North of here is going to be colder and rainier, and there's no way I'll move back to Hawaii with my parents ready to swoop on by at a moment's notice :( I don't really see myself living happily anywhere else, but this place isn't happy with me living here, so... I dunno. Clearly, I should buy a raft and paddle out into the water and declare my own short-lived country or something. Because I'll run out of fresh water and food pretty quick. And something will probably puncture the raft, and I can't see myself surviving the cold of the water off this coast long enough to swim back to shore. But maybe that would be for the best--it would make for an interesting news story, at least.