Hyperhidrosis surgery

You will find that Hyperhidrosis surgery is only suggested as a last resort treatment for excessive sweating [hyperhidrosis]. It is quite invasive and although it is effective in the area chosen for the surgery unfortunately this can lead to compensatory sweating starting up in other areas of your body.

It is always advisable to try all other methods first before you even consider submitting yourself to this surgery.

The Hyperhidrosis surgery consists of the sweat glands being actually removed in various ways. There is another alternative which means that the nerves which normally send messages to the sweat glands are cut.

This particular method is called ETS or Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy and it is considered major surgery and is quite irreversible. The huge drawback to this surgery is that between 80 and 90% of people who have had this surgery have ended up with compensatory sweating. This can occur anywhere on the trunk of the body, plus the legs and face.

In this scenario you could end up with sweating in more areas than you had in the first place before you had the surgery.

It appears that the Mayo Clinic has pioneered another form of this ETS and this is called Endoscopic Transthoracic Sympathotomy and with this procedure the compensatory sweating is virtually eliminated.

Generally speaking though, people like the Mayo Clinic and International Hyperhidrosis Society rarely recommend surgery because there could well be other less invasive methods that would cure your problem.