Do you sweat at any temperature?

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This has happened for most of my life, I think since I was perhaps in 6th grade and forward. My palms, feet, and upper lip and chin tend to get it the worst and I don't think it has a great deal of temperature linkage, yes - I won't sweat particularly if I'm out side and its below 50 degrees, but indoors I could just as easily break a major sweat at 70 degrees as I can 85 or 90.

As far as causal ties, anxiety could be it but it seems like this happens the most often when I'm dealing with mental fatigue. I've had days where perhaps I'd show up for martial arts, we'd start going over something that I haven't seen before, it takes a bit of focus as the entries and takedowns get pretty involved. If I come in feeling like I was lucky to walk in on my two legs and drive let alone listen to a complex set of directions it goes like this: I start off dry, then I start getting the yawns, then my brain just turns off - I can't focus on anything and have to tune out. After enough of that its like someone turned the sprinkler system on. Part of it is I'm absorbing my yawns and perhaps may be aware that my body is starting to behave in a rather bombastic manner - which I'm putting minor measures in to hide simply as not to be rude but also, I generally don't like looking like a freak or showing people that I've perhaps got a junker of a hypothalamus or thyroid. From there I'm leaving footprints all over the mats and all that fun stuff. For the most part while I know its there I try to ignore it, deliberately won't let myself get anxious over it because I know that creates a paradox, but at the same time here I am typing in my room and my palms are going like crazy, I'm really getting the impression that this has more linkage to other factors than anxiety.

Even at work I'll have times where after looking at data a bit I'll feel like my brains going into some kind of metabolic crisis. Perhaps, more realistically, it happens almost daily - it just depends on where I am and what I'm doing that makes the distinction between whether its bearable or whether it really starts feeling like I'm baked off a few bowls (which I haven't smoked in years - its likely just the best point of reference).

What I'm wondering - how much of this is just pushing myself too much while on the spectrum and how much of this might be related to medications I took in the past. I had eight years of hell pretty much from 11 to 19 on risperidal combined with various antidepressants and antianxiety. It seemed like the problem excellerated during that time, though even there - not sure how much of that was medication, how much of that is PTSD, or now that I would *think* such a thing for me as PTSD is washed out by now (life still has its negative pressures but not like it used to) what exactly it is that my body's doing.

I ask on here just because - I really don't want to waste my time seeing doctors on this. I have, and like almost anything I describe to them - anywhere from this issue to feeling a tingling numbness wrap the front and sometimes all of my cranial area, all doctors typically have for me are blank shrugs. Curious if anyone's dealt with this and figured that perhaps they did have a hyperarroused sympathetic nervous system? If it ended up being something thyroid or hypothalamus related? An additional note - I do have RLS at night, particularly if I drank during the evening. Melatonin seems to overpower it but without that my legs typically get enough of that sensation to keep me up for a few extra hours at a minimum.

I've never been on medications, and I still have this. I don't sweat in the same places, but I have the same basic issue. I've been actively chilly and still had sweat running down my sides - while sitting still and not exerting myself, so this wasn't the effect of previous exercise. With me, I think the trigger may be emotion, or, yes, mental exhaustion. And, yes, I get blank shrugs from doctors all the time, or "that's impossible" - when I even bother to go to them.

Edited to add: I started having this problem when I was around ten or eleven - and, for me, it began subsiding somewhat in my forties. By now, at fifty-one, it isn't as intense as it used to be.

There are a lot of causes for excess sweating (hyperhydrosis). It could be a hormone imbalance, or it could just be "normal" for you. If it gets to be a problem, there are treatments for it; special antiperspirants by prescription, and even minor surgery to remove the sweat glands. Ask your doctor to check for hormone imbalances, if he/she is willing. If not, you might want to do some internet reading on hyperhydrosis, and get some advice there. I have it on my chest and underarms, (thankfully not stinky; just WET all the time). I was told I needed a surgery in the armpits, so I figured I'd just live with it and not wear shirts that show wetness. Temperature doesn't matter for me either. And what's weird, is that my feet NEVER sweat. I don't think they have sweat glands. Technically I can wear the same workboots and socks for a week in a hot, humid climate, and no sweat/no smell. NOTE: I shower every day, and I do not re-wear socks... Just saying....

Charles

i have always had poor core temperature regulation, and so i sweat at anything above 70 degrees even when sitting still. any level of exertion at any temperature above 40 degrees will see me drenched in sweat in less than one minute. yuck. i hate sweating. at any sustained temperature below 50 my extremities go cold on me, unless i wear gloves and warm footwear.

Yeah, I hate that. I had times when I lived with a roommate and I had the rag out cleaning bathrooms or certain parts of the house - I'd look like a one man Gatorade commercial just off of pushing a rag, the whole time laughing to myself thinking "what the f--- is with me?". That pretty much sounds like the closest thing to what I'm dealing with myself though. I'd like to think that plenty of sleep and avoiding stimulants will catch up and start helping, for several years I was juicing myself on coffee to keep myself functioning at 100% or even over, I knew it wasn't healthy but I thought it was needed - maybe even a few months after the initial caffeine kick my adrenal glands may still need repair? Who knows.

Due to residing in a nation that uses Metric measurements, this may be difficult and require using my conveniently located temperature widget.

I begin sweating if the temperature is about 25 degrees Celsius (77 Fahrenheit). However, if I am engaging in physical activity (i.e. Running or another mandatory activity at school) I also begin to sweat.