Originally Posted by Cake

Hi Guys

As with so many aspects of RSD, it's reassuring to know I'm not the only one dealing with this symptom, but I wish no one else had to deal with it at all. And weirdly enough, I just opened Neurotalk to chat about this exact problem!

My sweating issue is out of control. For me, it mainly affects my face, head, neck and upper body. It can happen at any time. We're in the middle of a hot Australian summer at the moment but in a way that's irrelevant as I get just as sweater when it's cold and the house is cold, than I do when it's hot.

My body temperature regulator has also gone out of control in the past few months (I'm always sweating when everyone else is cold, and vice versa), and my fingernails on my RSD hand have also changed- breaking constantly (often with the top layer of the nail breaking, not always all the way through), vertical ridges down my nails, etc etc.

It seems that after I hit my 9 year RSD anniversary in November this year, my body/rsd has decided to step it up and notch and take me into a whole new phase of my RSD progression. I've always been kinda relieved when I've read other RSDers talk about their sweating symptoms that I didn't have that to worry about. Now that's all changed

The sweating issue has made me so cranky at my body. I can't put on make-up or do my hair without having to do it a zillion times. As soon as I apply my foundation, I sweat it off.

Although I have one daughter with ringlets and two with dead straight hair, my hair is in the middle- with some parts going wavy, some straight and all of it frizzy and boofy, lol. But if I try to dry my hair with the hairdryer, I have to have a hand towel next to me to wipe the sweat from my face, hairline and neck as I go, so I may as well not bother or get in the shower again!

If I'm going out, I use a straightener for my hair but as soon as my hair is straight, I start sweating again and then my hair frizzes up all curly and looks crazy!

I'm SO over the sweating!

I'll ask this here but I might also start a spin-off thread so more people can answer, but can anyone recommend a good foundation (liquid or powder) that can handle a bit of sweat and not come off as soon as you put it on?

I know this all sounds really vain and it's a small problem I have in the big scheme of things, but I'm in my early thirties and my medications give me really bad skin as it is, so I just want to look nice and feel good about how I look, even if my body is far from normal in other ways... that's not too much to ask, is it?!

I've just bought a small hand-held fan (as I'm always having to wave a magazine/piece of paper in front of my face to cool me off) and that's helping, but has anyone got any other tips for dealing with the chronic sweating?

And if anyone could recommend a good foundation that stays on well I would really appreciate it, I don't mind how much it costs- I'm spending a fortune on foundation now because I have to keep re-applying it all day!

x Kate