Compensatory sweating occurs when the original hyperhidrosis is no longer localized to the area where it first occurred. Often it can travel to the trunk or body or back of legs or knees and can occur after surgery. It doesn’t always occur right away; it can take about 6 weeks before we see this and doctors still don’t know why. What they do know is that the higher on the sympathetic nerve they have to cut, the more likely that compensatory sweating may happen, which is why now surgeons avoid cutting above rib 3.
There is a seasonal component with compensatory sweating. Our doctors at Cosmetic and Obesity Surgery Hospital India have noticed that patients get better in the winter, but experience more sweating in the summer.
When patients do suffer with compensatory sweating there are medications that are able to help.
