So, I'm going to consider this a major NSV for me. For the past several years, I've suffered from episodes of excessive sweating. Heat, humidity, crowds, anxiety, exercise, exertion, you name it, I could be completely drenched, especially from my scalp. It's been a horrendously embarrassing experience, to the point where I've avoided social events because of my fear of causing a scene. I've barely gone outside during the summer the last couple of years. FYI, the sweats began before I was terribly overweight (my lowest weight was 154, I remember the sweats starting when I was in the 170's). I could be drenched in sweat just from walking around on a cold but damp day.

Anyhoo, I'm 4.5 weeks out of surgery, down 35 lbs to 239, and about ten days ago I suddenly realized that . . . . I'm not sweating any more! In the last week I attended an outdoor garden party in terrible humidity, an outdoor fish fry, and schlepping supplies in and out of an un-air conditioned convention space. Not once have I broken a sweat, even running around in layers and high heels. I even climbed several flights of stairs without so much as a flush.

Somewhere several months ago I read that that a hormone in the stomach regulated body temp and that VSG could help "cure" excessive sweating beyond just the weight loss aspect alone. Has anyone seen what I remember reading? Anyone else having a similar experience? I did expect to have some of it resolve with weight loss, but not this early or extreme.

Anyway, regardless of the reason or the cure, I'm an incredibly happy camper. I would have had VSG just to resolve this issue alone.

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Yay!!! I'm so excited for this to happen to me. I am supposed to have the sleeve in a couple of months, and I gotta tell you, I would do it just for the loss of sweating constantly alone. It is the most embarrasing thing ever. Thank you so much for sharing. Before hearing of this added bonus I was starting to get really scared of having the surgery.

I was ALWAYS hot, slept under a sheet only with AC at 66 and ceiling fan on high. Waking up in the morning made me sweat profusely. Now, I am comfortable during the day, and sweat only upon exertion. However, at night I freeze to frickin' death. I pile on four blankets and shiver for a long while before I can get to sleep.

And, wierdest of all, my body temp used to hover around 96.5 all the time. Now it is 98-something!

I've read that ghrelin, the hunger hormone that's removed along with the majority of our stomachs, is responsible for body temp regulation, at least in part. Removing that ghrelin makes a lot of us cold constantly after surgery.

Oh really? That would explain a lot. I'm always cold, which is something I prefer to always being hot and sweaty. When I was big, it was so embarassing when my pits and back would sweat like crazy. Especially when I was at school and wore a backpack. I had the clinical strength antipersperant and deoderant, and I'd put it not only on my pits, but inbetween my lovehandles on my back and under my boobs! I still couldn't do anything about my sweaty forehead or scalp (which made my hair look wet and greasy on especially hot and humid days).

I can soooo relate to this NSV. I share your joy. This is one of the many pros to the VSG. I dreaded the summer (I live in a very humid area), but now I can be comfortable this year! Congrats, WhoozisAnyway.

Oh really? That would explain a lot. I'm always cold' date=' which is something I prefer to always being hot and sweaty. When I was big, it was so embarassing when my pits and back would sweat like crazy. Especially when I was at school and wore a backpack. I had the clinical strength antipersperant and deoderant, and I'd put it not only on my pits, but inbetween my lovehandles on my back and under my boobs! I still couldn't do anything about my sweaty forehead or scalp (which made my hair look wet and greasy on especially hot and humid days).

I can soooo relate to this NSV. I share your joy. This is one of the many pros to the VSG. I dreaded the summer (I live in a very humid area), but now I can be comfortable this year! Congrats, WhoozisAnyway.[/quote']

Thanks, and congrats to you too!

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Yay!!! I'm so excited for this to happen to me. I am supposed to have the sleeve in a couple of months' date=' and I gotta tell you, I would do it just for the loss of sweating constantly alone. It is the most embarrasing thing ever. Thank you so much for sharing. Before hearing of this added bonus I was starting to get really scared of having the surgery.[/quote']

I consider this a freaking miracle. I'm not afraid to be out in public any more! Yesterday I grilled dinner for my mom and didn't break a sweat standing in the sun with full grill heat hitting me in the face. Tonight I was trying on jeans at Ross (just went down another size, yippee), their AC was out in the dressing rooms and it was sweltering. I was warm but barely beaded on my forehead.

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Man that is awesome! :)

This has happened to me too! I sit around under a quilt! Now..for the bed time shivers I have a suggestion! My hubby and I have a dual control heating blanket. His control is off and mine is on setting 7..He says his side is like the North Pole and my side is like the pits of hell..LOL...oh well..it working for me..nice and toasty at night!

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Well, tonight was my first time at the gym in many years. I DID sweat, but it was just normal, exercising sweaty. Before, I would have been drenched and dizzy. This kind of sweat I can handle!

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OMG, I had no idea of this happy side effect. I can not WAIT!!

I so hope that this happens immediately. I'm having surgery in San Diego in June and I'm from Alaska and I'm a hot, sweaty mess in temperatures above 65. What a great NSV, thanks for sharing.

This has happened to me too! I sit around under a quilt! Now..for the bed time shivers I have a suggestion! My hubby and I have a dual control heating blanket. His control is off and mine is on setting 7..He says his side is like the North Pole and my side is like the pits of hell..LOL...oh well..it working for me..nice and toasty at night!

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LOL! That is EXACTLY what I did!!! Really works! Congrats to everyone!!!! This is a great thread!

hi, just as i popsted earlier that yes, i no longer sweat buckets...

no no no!!!!

It has started again.. Has it got anythign to do with my metabolism or wat?

This is disheartening. My colleagues realised that too. initially post surgery i dont perspire at all, now it has started all over again..

but i still get cold rather easily, which i never did before surgery...

bummer... i hope it's just the weather here...

I really hope this happens for me! I live in the Phoenix area and it's already hit 108 this week.

Last summer, I was in the process of rapid weight loss (sleeved April 2011)--I noticed then that I didn't get so sweaty all the time, and we live in the tropics of south Louisiana--probably just down the street from you, Whoozis!

THIS summer, what a change--I'm cold all the time in air conditioning... and you know we southerners love our A/C!! I don't run the air in the car much any more, just put the windows down. I can move around, walk around, go shopping, do whatever without sweating. As someone above said, it would be worth the surgery for this benefit alone!! It's so lovely not to feel self-conscious about weight or sweat--I never realized how much those things affected my social interactions or willingness to be in groups of people.

Plus, ladies, it's a blast shopping for shrugs and cardigans--so cute!! and NECESSARY, now (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!). I am mind-blown that I am actually wearing sweaters in MAY. Just flips me right out, but how great is that!?

Last summer' date=' I was in the process of rapid weight loss (sleeved April 2011)--I noticed then that I didn't get so sweaty all the time, and we live in the tropics of south Louisiana--probably just down the street from you, Whoozis!

THIS summer, what a change--I'm cold all the time in air conditioning... and you know we southerners love our A/C!! I don't run the air in the car much any more, just put the windows down. I can move around, walk around, go shopping, do whatever without sweating. As someone above said, it would be worth the surgery for this benefit alone!! It's so lovely not to feel self-conscious about weight or sweat--I never realized how much those things affected my social interactions or willingness to be in groups of people.

Plus, ladies, it's a blast shopping for shrugs and cardigans--so cute!! and NECESSARY, now (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!). I am mind-blown that I am actually wearing sweaters in MAY. Just flips me right out, but how great is that!?[/quote']

I AM just down the road . . . in Biloxi!

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