What is Hyperhidrosis

Primary hyperhidrosis is the condition characterized by abnormally increased perspiration, in excess of that required for regulation of body temperature. Some patients afflicted wi...

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Hi everyone, I'm not technically diagnosed but have had problems all my life and today's experience convinced me to go to the doctor. I had to get electronic fingerprinting done for a background check for a new job and the machine would not read my fingerprints because my fingers were sweating and obscuring the image. Has anyone had this happen to them? What did you do? Can you get a medical exemption? My record is completely clean and so what should have been a simple 2-minute procedure turned into an unsuccessful 30-minute procedure. If anyone has any advice it would be much appreciated!
Posted on 05/21/09, 09:05 pm
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Reply #1 - 05/24/09  11:25pm
" are your hands the only thing sweating? its understandable that you would be a bit nervous and thus your hands would be sweating, thats normal. I know for me i sweat through a shirt very noticably in less than half an hour. of course there are things you can do, botox is the one i know most about- but as im typing theres an ad:
sweaty hands? there are options... endoscopic thoracic surgeon- david h neilson.
so if youre really interested it might be worth googleing. "
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Reply #2 - 06/30/09  5:30am
" Hi, I had problems with fingerprinting because my hands sweat excessively 24/7. I asked for a security swipe card instead, so I could use that for entrance. "
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Reply #3 - 08/09/09  7:09pm
" i know how u feel! same thing happended to me not long ago i had to renew my fingerprints for my job just hang in there thinking u wont have to do it for a couple of years :) thats wut im doing if u find something that works let me knoe "

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