Testimonials for Hyperhidrosis Treatment at the Whiteley Clinic

I struggled with hyperhidrosis for many years and tried all sorts of possible cures including very strong deodorants, Botox and Iontophoresis but none of them worked for me. I had basically given up and resigned myself to always wearing black and white tops in order to make my problem less obvious.

Then I found Mr Whiteley’s sweating website which documented the new LSA operation. It sounded perfect for me.

Going along for my initial sweat test I was really nervous and worried that I wouldn’t sweat enough and Mr Whiteley would find that I didn’t have a sweat problem at all. Once the test had been carried out and I spoke to Mr Whiteley, I was so pleased, for the first time in my life, to hear that I definitely had hyperhidrosis! To hear an expert on sweating confirm that I had a severe sweat problem was great! This was made even better by the fact that Mr Whiteley said that the best results were achieved with people who sweat the most!

I was really impressed by how knowledgeable and honest Mr Whiteley was during the consultation, I was concerned that I might be given the ‘hard sell’ but this was not the case. He explained the risks and also went through all of the other possible options and operations for hyperhidrosis. I was also really impressed that Mr Whiteley documents each case thoroughly and uses his data to improve the outcome of each operation.

The operation took about an hour and Mr Whiteley and his staff were so friendly and really put me at ease throughout the whole procedure. I was surprised that they took photos of my armpits throughout, but again it just proved that Mr Whiteley wanted to learn from each procedure. At one point I experienced a strange pain which bought me to tears, but I don’t think it was really the pain which caused the tears, it was more the relief of finally getting my hyperhidrosis dealt with. It was an extremely emotional day, having lived with the problem for so long.

I was expecting the pain to be awful and to barely be able to move for days after but this was not the case. I found it hard to sleep the first night, which was due to the packing under my arms rather than any pain. The next day I took pain killers and was able to move my arms quite normally which I was really surprised by. I found that there seemed to be blood leaking from my arms which really worried me. However, one of Mr Whiteley’s staff rang me the day after the procedure and reassured me that it was most likely to be the liquid painkiller mixing with blood and seeping out, and that it would stop very soon, which it did.

After I removed the compression garment my under arms looked bruised and puffy but didn’t really hurt. I also had a lump under my right arm which I assumed would go down in a couple of days. After a few days my arms didn’t hurt at all and I barely remembered that I’d had anything done, apart from when I looked at them, as they were still bruised and puffy.

I was however, still worried about the lump under my arm as it didn’t seem to be going down and the skin on the lump was red and looked infected. I contacted Mr Whiteley and he asked me to drop in and see him. I did this, and without an official appointment, I was seen straight away without having to wait at all. Mr Whiteley checked the lump under my arm and took a sample from it. He found that it wasn’t infected, there was just pooled blood in the gap had been created in the operation. He told me this would soon be reabsorbed back into my body. I was so impressed by how quickly and efficiently I was seen and my problem sorted out.

Over the next few weeks my arms just got better and better, initially my underarm hair seemed to be falling out and not growing back, which I was very pleased about! But over time the hair has started growing again, but it seems slower growing than it used to and also less of it. Even now, 3 1/2 months on, the very centre of my armpit feels a little numb, but it is slowly coming back to life.

In the weeks after the operation I kept wondering when I would have to start wearing deodorant again, when would the sweating return? But so far it has not returned! I bought some ‘normal’ persons aerosol deodorant and was expecting to need to use it once my armpits had healed, but it remains untouched!

I returned for my 6 weeks check and sweat test and was really excited to hear how much my sweating had been reduced by, as I was pretty sure that the operation had been extremely successful. I was correct! My sweating had been reduced by 98%! I think Mr Whiteley said this was one of his best results ever!

The operation has been such a positive experience for me but unfortunately it’s the kind of thing that very quickly becomes ‘the norm’. Hence me writing this testimonial nearly 4 month after having the operation! I very quickly got used to not sweating and have almost forgotten that I had hyperhidrosis at all! I can barely remember all the problems and worries I had about sweating. It’s like I have become a different person! I have more colourful clothes and no longer need to consider what I’ll wear to hide my sweat problem. I am so glad I found Mr Whiteley and his clinic on the internet and I’m so glad I decided to take the plunge and have the operation done. Thank you so much.

32 year old lady – who had LSA in August 2010