Dear Sweaty Santa: Holiday Giveaway!

Win a Dermadry + $500 Spending Cash for the Holidays!

Is Dermadry on your Christmas wishlist this year?

Send us a letter addressed to Santa explaining why you want Dermadry for Christmas, and you could win a Dermadry Total and $500 spending cash for the holidays!

We know that Dermadry is on a lot of Christmas wish lists this year, and many of us could use a little extra spending cash for the holidays, so this year, we’re spreading the holiday cheer by doing two holiday giveaways to give back to our community!

Grand Prize: 1 Dermadry Total + $500

Our Grand Prize winner is…

- Dragu I! —

Dear Sweaty Santa, this year I want a Dermadry because I like taking photos and making videos and having sweaty hands does not help at all. You are afraid you're going to slip the phone from your hands when you're taking photos or shooting videos. Even if I'm not in front of the camera, there are LED lights that you always have to rearrange and it gets hot.

And you feel yourself being more sweaty and it just takes a toll on you. It does affect your creativity because instead of thinking how to make a good video or a good photo, you're just afraid that people will see that you're sweating. You don't want to look unprofessional when you have a photo shoot for a client.

Sometimes I'm not even using my own camera. So it feels uncomfortable touching someone else's camera because you have sweaty hands and you don't even have time to talk about it. Tell them, to explain to them, you know, if you're in an important photo shoot or they are filming, things need to be done fast. You don't have time to speak about it.

I'm going to tell you something, this summer, I even bought a pair of gloves. Some rubber inserts on them, because I want to have a better grip when holding the gimbal with a phone, because I don't want to drop my gimbal with my expensive phone. Living with hyperhidrosis is painful.

It affects your creativity and your mood. You have to rearrange everything that you do according to how hot it is. If it's too hot, you're going to stay at home, you're not going to go out. Hyperhidrosis makes you feel powerless. You feel you don't have control over what is going to happen. You don't know if you can rely on your body to do what you need it to do.

I think social media, taking photos and making videos is the present and the future. And I just want to have much more ease and peace of mind with making them. And I think Dermadry will help me a lot. I think Dermadry is amazing because you don't have to take pills, you don't have to have surgery.

You have this amazing device that you can use at home. I think Dermadry will give me more ease and more courage to try more things and to participate at more events. Sometimes I want to do product photos or product videos. And if it's not the product that I bought, it feels uncomfortable touching it and changing its position to have a good angle because of the sweaty hands.

I think Dermadry will give me much more freedom in choosing the clothes that I'm going to wear, because when you're living with hyperhidrosis, you don't have that much choice. There is when you choose your clothes.

Dragu is the winner of a Dermadry Total to treat excessive sweating of the hands, feet, and underarms and US$500 spending cash for the holidays, which can be used on new equipment for his hobbies or a new wardrobe, as he’ll be free to wear what he wants with Dermadry! Congratulations, Dragu!

Runner-Up Prize: 1 Dermadry Total

Our Runner-Up Prize winner is…

- Neja K! —

Here’s why Neja wants a Dermadry this Christmas…

Dear Sweaty Santa, this year I want a Dermadry because it would mean so much more than a simple machine; I would mean holding my loved ones for longer, not hiding my hands and constantly wiping them in my clothes until those get wet too, not wearing socks and shoes even when is burning hot outside and trying wild new things such as getting a pedicure or learning how to ballroom dance.

It was nice to hear you added the adjective to your name, Sweaty Santa, even though I had my suspicions sooner; I know those gloves can protect from more than just cold and elves help you with gift wrapping - believe me I know the struggle of wrapping gifts with sweaty hands.

To save you some time from trying to find my file among all those in the “good this year” pile, I will quickly present myself in the sweaty sense. I have palmo-plantar hyperhidrosis, which means that I primarily struggle with excessive sweating of hands and feet, but throw a bit of nerves in the mix and I sweat all over. I know, what a joy… Joke aside, it truly is an everyday struggle. No matter the time of day, the weather, my mood: I sweat.

It has been this way since I can remember. I started to become insecure about it around the age of ten. My most hurtful memories are from that period as I remember classmates and friends quickly moving their hands away after touching mine and their expressions of disgust. I have vivid memories of fearing introducing myself and shaking hands, giving high-fives, holding hands while dancing, doing partner exercises in physical education classes or even worse being barefoot. At that time, I also started taking violin lessons and the teacher hinted to me that with the sweating of my palms I will never be able to become a good player.

It hurt as I could not do anything about it even though I tried. I really did try. Hard. But tying to apply an antiperspirant cream after the instructions specify that the cream should only be applied on completely dry hands is a mission impossible and gathering the finances and taking the risk of invasive surgery can be overwhelming. I have then decided to embrace the condition as much as I could and just adjusted my life accordingly. I wore dark clothes, I carried tissues, I skipped dancing at my senior dance in high school, I didn't apply to medical faculty even though I wanted to and had good enough grades to get in because I would have to touch patients and I don't want to make them uncomfortable.

After long internal struggle and sadly even some self-hatred, I, thankfully, accepted the condition as a part of me and I can say I am almost grateful (at least in some parts) to it; it has made my personality different as I always had I different outlook on experiences and gratitude for what I could do, it made me value acceptance of everybody with all of their aspects and lastly it really taught me to cherish the small moments when my hands are dry. I am also thankful that it brought me on a path that ultimately led me to my master's in early learning as I love working with children and contributing to developing their full potential. But even in this profession I face the fear of working with my sweaty palms. How will I handle children, will they be disgusted by my hands?

Now, being 25 and struggling with hyperhidrosis (mostly in a psychological sense) for so long, as much as I have grown to accept it and to feel capable to share my story and with it awareness, I think I have come to a point where I would love to try to live a next chapter of my life sweat free. As I have previously given up on finding the solution for my condition, it was only this summer that I finally stumbled upon iontophoresis and Dermadry. I was scrolling through the reviews on Dermadry's site and I read a comment by a new mom, how she is now able to hold her baby without worrying of getting it wet and I just began crying because being of the age when I am thinking of starting a family in near future it hit me so hard to see someone sharing my big fear, which is hard to understand by people who do not experience the condition. I want to try Dermadry in hopes it would give me a new version of life where I don't constantly think about sweat, how to hide it and how to deal with embarrassment and having to explain or apologise myself. A new version where I can start my final year's pedagogical practice sweat and carefree, where I can apply for a job and look forward to starting it and focus on the children and not my fear of how to deal with my sweating, where I am able to complete simple daily tasks without wiping my hands more times than I can count.

As I am finishing this letter with sweaty palms and teary eyes I am thanking you from the bottom of my heart for this opportunity. If you find your way through my chimney, it would be a Christmas miracle story to tell my future children as I am buying them their own Dermadry in case they will need one, but if you don't and you find someone else who is more deserving of the Dermadry, I am still very thankful because I am sincerely happy for every single person who resolves their hyperhidrosis struggle. SWEATY SANTA, THANK YOU!

Neja is the winner of a Dermadry Total to treat excessive sweating of the hands, feet, and underarms! Congratulations Neja, we’re glad to help you check Dermadry off your Christmas wishlist!

Thank you to all our entrants to this year’s edition of our Dear Sweaty Santa Holiday Giveaway! We were blown away by your lovely letters and creativity, and thank you for helping us raise awareness of hyperhidrosis. Happy Holidays from the Dermadry Team!