{"id":8636,"date":"2025-11-24T12:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:33:41","slug":"photos-reveal-horrendous-reality-for-girl-who-sweats-three-litres-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curiousdrive.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/photos-reveal-horrendous-reality-for-girl-who-sweats-three-litres-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos reveal \u2018horrendous\u2019 reality for girl who sweats three litres a day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Darcie notice she was sweating more than normal (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Darcie Hamilton was 10, she noticed she was sweating<\/a> more than anyone else at her primary school<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But this wasn’t an isolated incident, as she grew older her sweating became a serious problem, forcing her to take drastic measures.<\/p>\n

This included bringing three changes of clothes to school as well as taking up to five showers every day.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until Darcie was 16 that doctors finally diagnosed her with ‘one of the worst cases’ of hyperhidrosis<\/a> they’d seen – a medical condition in which a person sweats excessively.<\/p>\n

And shocking photos have revealed the side effects and ordeal she went through when her condition was at its worst at school.<\/p>\n

‘School was absolutely horrendous for me,’ Darcie, who lives near Ayr, Scotland<\/a>, recalls. ‘The condition was one of the things that I got severely bullied for.<\/p>\n

‘I had to leave school at 14 because that’s how bad the bullying was from it. They would say I was dirty.’<\/p>\n

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Darcie was losing three litres of sweat each day (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s something that ‘definitely affected’ her, and no matter what she did, the side effects only got worse.<\/p>\n

‘The sweat would literally be from the top of my armpit all the way down to the bottom of my waist,’ Darcie, now 22, says.<\/p>\n

‘I was going to the school in the winter without a jacket just so I wouldn’t sweat. The older I got, the more visible it became. I would start chafing. It would cause rashes, blisters, really bad sores.<\/p>\n

‘It overtook my life, I was in my bed all day every day. I didn’t want to leave the house or make friends. I was embarrassed.’<\/p>\n

Darcie says she was sweating three litres of fluid every day, and as a result began downing five litres of water to curb her dehydration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘I’d wake up soaking in sweat no matter how cold I was,’ Darcie adds. ‘I’d wash my hair then hours later it would be soaking in sweat and I’d need to wash it again.<\/p>\n

‘Sometimes I’d be showering maybe four or five times a day and bringing two or three changes of clothing as well. I had to bring changes of clothes to school. If I go out, even just for a walk, sometimes I have to change two or three times a day.’<\/p>\n

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Darcie was left with painful sores on her hands because of the excessive sweating (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She’s binned thousands of pounds worth of clothes after only being able to wear an item twice, because her excessive sweat had ‘destroyed’ it.<\/p>\n

‘It really affected my confidence,’ Darcie says. ‘The hyperhidrosis caused contact dermatitis<\/a> because of the constant sweating.<\/p>\n

‘The sores in my armpits and hands were excruciating, and I would get hundreds of tiny blisters on both hands.’<\/p>\n

After getting her hyperhidrosis diagnosis in 2019, doctors told her it was ‘one of the worst cases’ they’d ever seen.<\/p>\n

Initially, Darcie was given NHS-funded botulinum toxin<\/a> (colloquially known as Botox) injections for her hyperhidrosis, but received a letter earlier this year to say the treatment was being withdrawn from University Hospital Ayr.<\/p>\n

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Excessive sweating can happen for no obvious reason, because of another condition you may have, or as a side effect of a medicine you’re taking.<\/p>\n

To avoid making it worse, don’t <\/strong>do the following:<\/p>\n