Your thermoregulation system is the mechanism responsible for maintaining a steady internal body temperature and includes the hypothalamus in the brain, the sweat glands, skin and circulatory system. 

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system is to control your internal body temperature, and one of the ways it does this is by sweating. As the water in the sweat evaporates from your skin, the surface of your skin cools down. So although ETS surgery stops the sweating in your hands, you will now have an impaired thermoregulation system which creates absolute havoc throughout the rest of your body. Neglecting to mention this to patients is medical negligence and should be a criminal offence punishable to the full extent of the law.

By having an impaired thermoregulation system, your body will no longer know when it is the right time to sweat, it won't know how much to sweat, nor will it know when to stop. This is because temperature receptors located throughout the skin no longer work. And as a result, you are now going to start sweating profusely on your back, chest, groin and legs at all the wrong times. This is the 'Compensatory Sweating' doctors try and downplay to help ensure you don't back out of getting surgery.

A small percentage of ETS patients get Gustatory Sweating, which is uncontrollable sweating on their head, face or chest when they eat or smell certain foods.

Some ETS patients sweat even when they are freezing cold, and in the most extreme cases, some endure chronic, uncontrollable full body sweating 24 hours a day.

"A little extra sweating that is easily managed" is often the terminology used to describe this to prospective patients.

Let's see exactly what this Compensatory Sweating looks like...