Elizabeth C.

Saudi Arabia

One of my most embarrassing moment caused by my hyperhidrosis occurred in grade 10 during one of our biology classes. We were discussing the kidney and obviously urine came up and the waste products that are found in your urine that the kidney excretes. Our teacher then went on to tell us how our sweat consists of basically the same ingredients as our urine. Somebody asked for clarification saying "so that means when you sweat you are basically urinating through your skin?" Our teacher's answer was yes. It felt like the world had stopped spinning, I heard someone say my name and all of a sudden everyone was looking at me, when the teacher asked me what was going on I simply raised my sweating hands so she could see the drops running down my hands. That left her speechless, she had no idea what to say. For months after that whenever someone wanted to borrow a pen (or something like that) from me, my class mates would tease me by saying something along the lines of "Be careful it has her urine on it." I know that it was just a joke but it really hurt.