Yup! You are going to trade your sweaty hands to look like this. Some trade off, huh?

And as to why it's called Compensatory Sweating is beyond me. Doctors try to justify it by saying the body is compensating by releasing the sweat which would otherwise have come from your hands to other parts of your body. In fact, I can clearly remember my surgeon telling me after my surgery "the sweat has got to go somewhere."

That is complete bollocks. Absolute rubbish! There is no requirement for your body to expel a certain amount of sweat just for the sake of it. And there is certainly no new mechanism that magically appears as a result of your surgery to divert the sweat to other parts of your body.

The reason you now sweat uncontrollably is because your body does not know when it is the right time to sweat, nor how much. Your body is simply no longer able to detect your internal body temperature and is the reason why many patients continue to sweat uncontrollably even when they are freezing cold.  

Some doctors have now even started to call it 'Rebound Sweating' as they know full well the sweat is not being diverted from your hands. Simply viewing the large volume of sweat now expelled from the body after ETS surgery when compared to just the hands surely reinforces this fallacy. I think many patients now realise this 'compensatory theory' is starting to lose credibility as more and more people question it.