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Hyperhidrosis Pain is More than Skin Deep. Be the Difference with Mental Health First Aid

We’re fighting to help prevent suicide and encouraging our community members to join us in taking a Mental Health First Aid course. It is our responsibility to be better prepared to help one another, and ourselves. Too often, the pain of hyperhidrosis runs beyond skin deep. Join us in recognizing and addressing the mental health impacts of excessive sweating so we can remove the stigma and improve physical and emotional wellness for our community and beyond.

Now Available:
Groundbreaking;
Voice of the
Hyperhidrosis Sufferer; Report

If you or a loved one lives with excessive sweating, The Voice of the Hyperhidrosis Sufferer is your report. Your participation, feedback and support surrounding the International Hyperhidrosis Society's Patient-Focused Drug Development Meeting on Hyperhidrosis helped to make it possible and it reflects the experiences and insights of true experts – the people like you who live with and suffer with hyperhidrosis. It’s time now to take this report and share it – to demand change in care, awareness, and treatments.

Fact or Fiction? Find out.

From 1951 to the present, the International Hyperhidrosis Society has the most comprehensive collection of sweat-related research papers around – so you can learn what the scientists know, and don’t know, about Hh. Learn more about the importance of our Know Sweat Published Literature content and how you can use it to be more Hh-informed. 

With the Chance to Win a Free Treatment, a More Comfortable Process & New freshEvents: There’s More to Know about miraDry 

miraDry is a non-surgical treatment for underarm sweating. Studies have shown that, for underarms, miraDry can provide 82% reduction in sweating – permanently!  Today, with the chance to win treatment, miraDry’s new comfort-enhancing protocol, and debut patient education events, there’s more to miraDry than ever before. 

Breaking: Research Proves Delays in Hyperhidrosis Care, Treatment (Dis)Satisfaction + More

A newly-published research article in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology shows that hyperhidrosis patients wait YEARS (3 to 10 years, in fact) before seeking treatment and that some of the most commonly recommended treatments provide the least satisfaction. Read the full blog to discover all the key findings. Thank-you International Hyperhidrosis Society community for participating in this eye-opening study.

Shannon McLinden is Making a Difference (and So Can You)

Here’s a story about an “ordinary” person making a difference. Shannon McLinden, founder of Summer Soles and FarmHouse Fresh, is a member of our community (just like you) and she’s using her businesses, her story, and her Texas ranch for positive change. Life with Hh can be hard, but if each of us strives to make a difference… that can make ALL the difference.