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Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (ETS) When you truly sweat excessively, to the point of saturating your shirt, you know how it can get you down - affecting work and social situations alike. Some people have become so desperate to stop sweating, that they have undergone surgery in order to try and cure this problem.  Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (ETS) – surgery is carried out under general anaesthetic (put to sleep). The surgeon would make 2 or 3 cuts in your armpit and place an endoscope (mini camera on a bendy tube) through one, in order to find the right part of the nerves. Cutting instruments are fed through the other holes and the nerves are cut. By turning off these nerve signals, the sweat glands will produce less sweat. A major draw-back of sufferers of Axillae Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating of the armpits) is that compensatory hyperhidrosis can result from this surgery. In other words, whilst the surgery may be effective at reducing the sweating within the armpits, the body still believes that sweating is required and the nervous system compensates for lack of sweating in the armpits, by making the body sweat in other places, which may include, face, chest, back, buttocks. For some patients, this problem has been tolerable, whilst for others, it has been worse than the original condition. Unfortunately, that’s not the end of the bad news, as with all operations, there is a risk of infection or allergies to anaesthetic. Not only that, but there is a possibility of Horner’s syndrome occurring if a certain nerve is mistakenly damaged. Even after exhausting all other methods of treatment, surgery should only be considered after discussing the potential pitfalls with a relevant medical professional. Try our breakthrough Antiperspirant - it even works on people where everything else has failed . |
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