Anti-sweating injections

Yes.

Anti-wrinkle injections can be used to reduce your underarm sweating.

Moderate doses can be used to substantially reduce your sweating, and bigger doses can be used to try to eliminate underarm sweating (we generally recommend moderate doses

It involves needles, so pain has to be managed.

For most patients, putting some ice under the armpit (after cleaning antiseptically) will chill the armpit enough for the treatment to be tolerable.

Other patients would rather have some anaesthetic cream applied under the armpits for 40 minutes or so (it's important, if using anaesthetic cream, to give it time to work).

We also have laughing gas on hand, if required.

By whatever means, we want the treatment to be tolerable.

Otherwise you won't tolerate it.

The only common risk is bruising, as with any other injected treatment.

Unusually, patients will describe that once they are sweating *less* in their armpits that they will start sweating *more* elsewhere. This is a bit unusual but not a rare complication. In the vast majority of cases the treatment is still "worth it", but rarely a patient will describe that the extra sweating elsewhere is too bothersome, and they will not repeat the treatment (it should be said that, although the treatment effect wears off, it cannot be reversed in the meantime).

Generally the sweat reduction lasts around six months. So spring is a great time to have the treatment performed, with a view to staying drier through the summer.