Sweating, anyone??

[rentjunkie]

Whoooooo man, do I ever sweat in class. I'm the only one who sweats when giving a massage, and I drip all over the place if I'm not careful. I now sport 80s sweatbands in all kinds of fashionable colors, and yeah, I go through 2 or three during the course of a class day. It's strange, I used to freeze my butt off all the time regardless, and then one day I began to sweat, a lot, most of the time. On a 90-degree day, I'll be riding in the car with my boyfriend and I will manage to FOG UP THE WINDOWS on my side of the car, even though it's blazing outside!!! I swear it's the medication I recently began taking for depression, even though my doctor says that excessive sweating is not a side effect :shock: the first day I took it, I started dripping sweat while sitting at a computer in an air-conditioned office!

anyways. I'm hoping that my body works up to this, and soon. As for finding a balance, I'm incorporating a lot of lifestyle changes to help fix me up so that I can better help others. I figure that eventually things'll even out and I'll be able to get off this medication too, and stooop sweating so much!

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[Nit R]

t046 Hey!! No fair caoimhan!! What about us girls that can't shave their heads! BRAGGART! If I wasn't married I would by golly t002

Who says you can't shave your head? Your husband? He may be turned on by it. You never know!

Anyway, I just updated my avatar to reflect my new me... with a better photo than that webcam photo.

 

[Pompal 09.]

I am finding that this winter, using a reverse cycle air conditioner for heating is enabling me to keep the room warm, but the air dry so that sweat evaporates and I stay dry.

 

[Mummy_to_one_and_bump]

The fan on the floor works... just make sure it's air flow is kept floor level.
Cool max or similar shirts are awesome, even under scrubs they seem to cool better than scrubs alone. Plain ones can be ordered from sports/promo shops and silk screened with logo etc. :wink:
You can keep your room cooler if you use radiant heaters directed towards client. Place them so that you are out of the direct path most of the time. Client is toasty, and most of you is cool.
Bare feet really help too... I usually slip off "kung-fu" type slippers after I walk in the room, and slip them on upon leaving. The few times a client asks, I say it helps with my keeping cool, and grounding. No complaints so far and I usually use a peppermint foot cream to ensure nothing foul.
Drink plenty of water. In my work in Occupational health, and dealing with heat stress in the workplace, if you feel thirst, the average person is down about 1 liter or more. It's a chronic problem in North America.

Take up Tai Chi... You’ll build up a higher sweat tolerance, and the stances will help your practice.