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> Surgery for appearance or comfort I'm kind of a sweaty guy so I got miradry in my arm pits. They lasered out something like 80% of my sweat glands under my a
by starwind 4y ago
> Surgery for appearance or comfort
I'm kind of a sweaty guy so I got miradry in my arm pits. They lasered out something like 80% of my sweat glands under my arms and it makes a big difference. I don't sit somewhere feeling absolutely disgusting worried that I stink. You can do it for your hands too if you have sweaty palms. Cost me like $2000.
I'm going to start some hair treatments here soon because it's getting thinner than I like up top
- maroonblazer 4y agoAs a teenager, my underarms would sweat profusely, leaving stains on my shirt that were impossible to ignore. My mother took me to a dermatologist who prescribed a medication I applied like deodorant and completely removed my ability to perspire under my arms. But my body still needs to cool itself so I now sweat profusely on my chest, back, forehead, and palms. Do you find that your perspiration just found a different outlet?
- starwind 4y agoNot that I've noticed
- digisign 4y agoInteresting. Did that happen to kill the stinky bacteria living in the sweat glands as well? Or is the improvement in smell merely a function of the lowered sweat production?
- starwind 4y agoAs I understand it, the stinky bacteria feed off some of the stuff in your sweat so I assume a lot of them would die
- digisign 4y agoYes, I wondered if the "heating process" would kill close to all of them. And all of them after a few treatments?
- version_five 4y agoI don't know that the two are related. I sweat a lot, mostly during exercise, and I don't have any body odor. I actually wondered if more sweating helps reduce odor by being more diluted, but I have no evidence for that. Otoh, there are definitely people around that stink but are not visibly sweaty. I think it must be more a microbiome issue than anything volume related.
- digisign 4y agoThey are directly related, sweat doesn't smell. Getting infected with one of the stinky strains is the culprit. i.e. Don't share bars of soap.
- yencabulator 4y ago> and I don't have any body odor For the record, you are not the judge of your own odor. And even if someone else says you have no body odor, that still doesn't mean you don't -- some people have less sensitive noses, some think "smell I'm accustomed to" = "no smell", and some will just try to be polite. (Personally, I haven't put on deodorant since COVID started, but I'm pretty remote..)
- version_five 4y agoWhat is the motivation for your comment? Are you assuming I don't know those things and that the only reason I could have made my assertion is out of ignorance? Is that really necessary?
- yencabulator 4y agoBecause the claim to have no body odor sounds frankly not plausible.
- digisign 4y agoNot only plausible but near guaranteed if you've not yet been infected (and not suffering from some other issue).