Do you sweat on your head?

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NancyNGA

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Just curious more than anything else. This doesn't seem to happen to anyone else.

If I work outside and it's not cold, after about 10 minutes, scalp starts tingling, about a minute later it's like someone turned on a faucet and water pours down my face over my eyeglasses. I have to wear a head band---always---and keep a spare with me. Most headbands are decorative made of nylon---useless. I made my own.

I wonder if there's a prescription med for this.;)

Sweating on your head is a disease. It's called aqua cranial egurgito. Ask your doctor about Xylzyoph. Tell your doctor about all your medications you take. Don't take Xylzyoph if you are allergic to Xylzyoph. May cause forgetfulness, swelling of tongue and dry eyes. Cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been reported in patients taking Xylzyoph if they already experience forgetfulness, not caused by a heart valve problem.

 

I think everyone's head sweats a little but it sounds like you are suffering from hyperhidrosis. There are several treatments for this; you should ask your doctor.

I couldn't find anything online about aqua cranial egurgito or Xylzyoph. Is it a prescription medication or a homeopathic substance?
 
Oh no! I should have added more smilies to that last part. I was just making up stuff about the meds. I thought you were, too, until I looked up hyperhidrosis.

From Wikipedia...

Hyperhidrosis can be associated with a quality of life burden from a psychological, emotional, and social perspective. It has been called by some 'the silent handicap'.

I started out the day feeling pretty good (except for a sweaty head), and now I feel emotionally handicapped.:eewwk:
 

My friend with MS sweats all over herself, including on her head. I sweated there when I was in menopause. The only thing wrong with me was wacky hormones.
 
This has been going on since I was at least 30 years old. I wasn't active enough to work up a sweat before 30, so it might have been forever. Ha!
 
Head sweating is not necessarily a "disease." In my case, I had night sweats on just my head.

It turned out to be a Vitamin D deficiency, as far as I could tell, because my doctor told me I had the deficiency. I started taking Vitamin D, and the head sweats stopped. I haven't had them in over a year now.

I suggest Googling head-sweating and see how many different results you get.
 
Guitarist said:
...I suggest Googling head-sweating and see how many different results you get.
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Oh, I was really just trying to start a not so serious thread. I've learned to live with it---why I get a perm every summer. Just scrunch up the wet hair with your finger tips, and when it dries it usually looks halfway decent and I'm good to go. :)
 
I sweat a lot too when working out in the sun Nancy, if I'm mowing the lawn, pulling weeds or trimming hedges I always have a sweat band on my head, the terry cloth ones. When I took a Zumba dance class or Jazzercise way back in the day, I'd be blinded without my sweat band. I know what you mean about the perms, when I had one it was easier for my hair to look okay even when I was hot, when my hair's straight it is plastered to my head and dripping.
 
I do have an active lifestyle and regularly catch on fire with hot flashes...plus I take medication that can exacerbate dehydration. No fun at all but hey we're human. If it's going to be a busy day I wear no makeup that will melt off anyway and have tissues or paper towels at hand...working in the yard I sweat like a moose.
 
I sweat all over, especially in this kind of weather...working outdoors. I usually wear a sweatband under the cap, to keep the sweat from pouring into my eyes. I have to stop every 30 minutes, or so, and gulp down a pint or so of cool water...but, that's good....keeps me fit and healthy. Today, I set fire to a huge pile of thorn bushes I had cut down this past Winter, and it was quite a bonfire...between the 92 degree heat, and the "blast furnace" that dried brush created, my clothes were soaking wet...but the shower sure felt good afterwards.
 
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