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Does MiraDry work?

Does MiraDry work? The short answer is No!  A little background about me:   I had been suffering from hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating) since I was a teenager and those big under arm sweat marks always embarrassed me. Despite using antiperspirant deodorants multiple times a day, still the odor and sweat would bother me. I always tried different types of deodorants from normal to clinical strength but they all work pretty the same and they decrease the odor and sweat to some extent only.  About a year ago I started researching about more permanent ways of stopping or decreasing the sweat and it looks like that there are two different methods:  -Botox injection   -MiraDry Botox VS. MiraDry How does Botox work? Sweat glands are stimulated by a neurotransmitter. Botox decreases sweating by temporarily blocking or interrupting this neurotransmitter. The effect of Botox lasts only few month and it needs to be repeated. Apparently patients usu...