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Are you one of the millions of people all over the world who are affected by excessive sweating, or hyperhidrosis? It can literally rule your life, affecting the places you go, the things you do, and also what clothes you wear.

Nowhere else is this more of a problem than when you are at work. No matter what your job, suffering from excessive sweating in the workplace can cause even higher levels of stress and leave you feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed about your problem.

No matter what you’re doing, working in an office in a thin shirt or down in the warehouse in some overalls, if you start to worry about your excessive sweating, the chances are it’s going to happen at some point during the day.

Whats doesnt help is that when you do feel yourself overheating and starting to sweat you begin to get stressed, which can make it even worse!

If you’re more worried about your sweating problem, it makes it hard to focus on what you should be doing. It can be even harder for you to be comfortable working closer to others who might notice your problem. If you suffer from excessive sweating, this might sound like every day you go to work.

Do any of these sound like the kind of thing you’ve tried just to get through work?

- t-shirts or extra layers under your work clothes

- drying your sweat patches with the toilet hand-dryer

- keeping your suit jacket on in the office even when its 90 degrees

- keeping a spare set of work clothes to change into

- re-applying your deoderant during the day

But these just mask the issue and dont stop you worrying about it, so whilst your colleagues might not notice your excessive sweating, how much time are you spending hiding it from them that you could be spending being more effective at your job?

Worrying about your excessive sweating can leave you short of time to do anything else in the day and you probably hadn’t even noticed the effect it was having.

A study by the International Hyperhidrosis Society found that in a recent survey of adults, 62 percent find that job-related issues, such as confronting a boss or going on an interview, makes them sweat more than any other circumstances.

The IHHS also found that people who were affected by hyperhidrosis in the workplace were limited to carrying out physical duties 25% of the time, in mental and interpersonal tasks 20% of the time, in time management 17% of the time, and in work output 11% of the time.

So excessive sweating is not only affecting your attitude at work but also your performance. Most sufferers have probably never considered the impact their problem was having.

The study went on to say that whilst probably not recognised as such, excessive sweating is a problem that can cause limitations of performance in the workplace similar to those experienced by workers suffering from depression, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.

You could always turn the air-conditioning up or try and avoid any manual labour, or try any number of methods to cover up the problem. But wouldn’t it be great to go to work confident in the knowledge that you didn’t have a problem, because it had been cured, naturally and permanently?

Organisations like the IHHS are working to raise awareness of excessive sweating as a problem, in the workplace and in other areas of sufferers lives. There are a range of options out there for people with hyperhidrosis, for more information on one of them see the details below.