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Opiate Medication Got You in a Sweat?

Post a new topicby livingwith on Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:00 am

After I had been taking Oxycontin for awhile for severe back pain, I noticed that I began to sweat with less and less normal provocation, leading to being able to THINK my way into a sweat. Job interview? Forget it. Having had anatomy, I had a feeling that the problem originated near where my pituitary should be. So I asked my doc for some testosterone to test my theory. He gave me a topical gel (100mg in 5% gel packs, 1 pack/day) and within two weeks the abnormal sweating was gone, althou...Read the full article
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Re: Opiate Medication Got You in a Sweat?

Post a new topicby UroDoc on Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:20 am

Interesting side effect. Another thing that can work for excessive sweating is Botox injections in the skin of your under arms
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Re: Opiate Medication Got You in a Sweat?

Post a new topicby rl54 on Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:47 pm

Hot flash just like women and to think all you needed was replacment therapy. I would break out in a sweat that would scare me and I mean drenched. I use opiates for extreme pain and thought that was the problem. It wasn't My testosterone blood levels were 34. If you have had the test you know how low that is. Forget sex. Everybody thought it was form my pain meds or blood pressure. Wrong! These may slow you down but they never did before so I thought. Over 150 thousand men go untreated for this usually aging problem.
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