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It has taken years of research to come to the conclusion I’m about to present to all of you. Countless hours of sweat have been recorded meticulously, and the number of white t-shirts I have ruined has to be in the thousands at this point.
A long time ago the fact that I was a heavy sweater was a tough thing for me to admit. I sweat regardless of temperature and at all hours of the day. It doesn’t matter if I’m in bed reading, at the gym half-assing a workout, or shopping at Goodwill looking for my next statement piece – my body simply runs hot.
In high school as my body began to change and my attitude about life, in general, started to sour, I would get self-conscious about this profuse sweating. I would “pit out” as my friends used to say, usually about ten or fifteen minutes into my first class of the morning.
I’d have to keep my arms down whenever possible so as not to discourage girls from liking me (not that I was getting any play whatsoever my Freshman year of high school) and nothing seemed to solve the issue. It got to a point during these early years of sweating that I would bring an extra shirt in my backpack to change into during my lunch hour.
I bought just about every brand name deodorant you could think of in search of something that would cure my underarm sweat. Nothing worked and it got to a point where I was so fed up that I finally consulted a physician.
He prescribed something called DrySol, an extra strength antiperspirant with aluminum chloride in it that burns worse than the fire of a thousand suns. I’d use it alongside a normal deodorant for odor, and while it did solve my sweat problem, the pain I had to endure night-in and night-out before bedtime became too much to handle.
DrySol works because it completely blocks the sweat glands under your arms from opening up. Two dabs of this shit under each arm was enough to make me run around waving my arms up and down like a lunatic and nearly bringing me to tears. The aluminum chloride is what I’m assuming made my skin underneath my arms burn as bad as it did.
The burning sensation does subside after a few minutes, but I ultimately decided that it wasn’t worth the pain to continue on with the prescription product. I also realized after longer than I’d care to admit that tossing something onto your armpits that has aluminum in it and completely blocks any sweat from getting out probably isn’t too healthy.
I moved away from the DrySol brand after I ran out of my first prescription, and went back to using regular ass Old Spice for the next ten-ish years. In that time I’ve ruined too many shirts to count. I’ve been roasted by family members, sexual partners, friends, and acquaintances alike, but the good news is I’ve found a solution and it all came by chance.
A few months ago I ran out of deodorant on a weekday. I didn’t realize it until I had stepped out of the shower and was preparing to head to work. With no time to stop at a drug store, I asked my roommate if I could take a few swipes with his stick of Right Guard, a brand which I had never used before. The next eight hours was pure bliss, with the shirt I was wearing not seeing even a drop of sweat.
The solution to this problem of extreme sweating was staring me in the face this whole time. The key to not perspiring (at least excessively) is to switch up the brand and flavor of your deodorant once, maybe twice a month. Keeping the body guessing is the name of the game when it comes to pitting out.
Since that fateful day in the fall I’ve held fast to this method of changing my deo up and I’ve seen pretty good results. Hyperhidrosis is nothing to laugh at, and if you don’t feel like getting DrySol (I promise you it is not worth it) this changing of the guard every now and again is the next best thing.
Go from Right Guard to Secret. Secret (it smells positively lovely, by the way) to Old Spice and then Old Spice to Dove. I used to shy away from wearing anything light gray because of my sweat problem, but now? Now I’m just regular-ass dude who can wear any color under the sun without fear of sweat rings forming around my arms. Take this advice and heed it. .
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jduda@grandex.co
what about uh butt sweat on the golf course asking for a friend
Take one from the late, great Big Black. Use a manpon. Fold a paper towel and put it in your crack. Problem solved.
RIP BB
Still workshopping this
Let me know how the R&D goes, we’re counting on you
I’m an exclusive, black dri-fit tech shorts if the temp breaks 80. If you can’t stop it, might as well hide it
There’s nothing worse than crackin’ out on the front nine
Gold Bond Menthol powder nothing better.
Monkey butt. It’s for mechanics but works like a charm
Double up on underwear and avoid gray or khaki pants. Black or white FTW
Lol white shorts? That just becomes the worst kind of wet t shirt contest imaginable
Gold Bond. Extra strength. It has menthol. You can thank me later.
My office can get pretty sweaty sometimes
Guy with sweaty pits here: I use Nivea women’s anti-perspirant because a) it works better, and b) it smells absolutely phenomenal
You have my full endorsement to bring “getting play” back into modern vernacular
I used to get botox injections in my armpits to deal with overly sweaty armpits. Super effective, but getting a needle jabbed into my armpits 40 times a session, twice a year, was brutal. Then I heard about Miradry and had 2 treatments. Seriously life-changing stuff if you have hyperhidrosis and I cannot recommend it enough.
Side note, you should also try Thompson’s Tees. It’s just a tee shirt that has padded, waterproof armpits that you cannot sweat through. They’re perfect as an undershirt.
One thing that worked wonders for me: applying it at night before you go to bed instead of in the morning. Do it in the morning and you might not have it apply as well after your shower, or you might actually sweat a lot of it off before it starts working.
created an account to comment on this and let y’all fellow heavy pitters in on some gold. im going to go ahead and guess that your “deodorant” is actually an anti-perspirant. i was a victim of this my whole life deliberately switching from brand to brand, dry to gel, etc to find something that will stop the flood gates in my arm pit. this last year, my brother in law let me know this secret. quit buying anti perspirants and switch to an original deodorant. figured i have nothing to lose so i gave it a shot in the middle of summer. can honestly say i havent had a single pitting incidence since i switched over. sounds weird but it took a few weeks to adapt. nothing but smooth sailing after. have since let my buddies know of this phenomenon and same results
sorry for the novel but when you got the ace card, you gotta let people know. classic old spice deodorant is what i use.
Also a creeper here that doesn’t post – this needs upvoted! I also used to pit out like crazy, sweat rings under my arms no matter what. I tried every AP under the sun, even the prescription stuff. Nothing worked. But on a whim, I tried switching to a DEODORANT. Oh my god. It not a drop of sweat. Magic. Idk what it is, but for guys with excessive pit sweat, consider trying an alcohol-free deodorant. Because it changed my life.
Go on Amazon and buy this product called SweatBlock. It burns like a mother when you apply it but I swear by this stuff. The good thing is that you only have to apply it once a month.
Dude you’ve got hyperhidrosis; ask your doctor about anticholinergics. I take glycopyrrlate. It helps. Kind of
Degree Clinical Protection worked wonders for me