What are the affects of miraDry and sweating in other places after the procedure?

Compensatory sweating (sweating more elsewhere) is uncommon post MiraDry procedure.  You do not need sweat glands in your armpits. You are born with approximately 2 million sweat glands throughout your body.  Your underarms only contain 2% of those sweat glands.  Since your underarms contain only about 2% of the sweat glands within the entire body, you will continue to sweat naturally elsewhere.  MiraDry is a great option for permanent elimination of sweat glands and odor glands.  Good Luck!

Thanks for your inquiry. MiraDry will affect only the underarm area and will lead to normal sweating in other parts of the body. Overall, only 2 % of the sweat glans live in the underarm and so there's little compensatory sweating. Best, Dr. ALDO

The underarms make up only about 2% of the sweat glands on the body.  With Botox and miraDry, you should not have increased compensatory sweating in other areas of the body.  Sweating is used for thermoregulation of the body.  Sweat does not have to come out.  There are many people that don't really sweat at all and don't ever wear antiperspirant.  They are completely fine and healthy.  

Compensatory sweating is most likely after thoracic sympathectomy.It has rarely been observed after miraDry or Botox for underarm sweating.I am aware of only 3 cases posted on this site from patients who have had miraDry.In our practice, 90% of our patients require only a SINGLE miraDry session.
1st session is $1500.
if you need  second or third, it is only $1000 per session for our patients. 
No one said it lasts only 2 years. I don't know where you got this information.
One session of miraDry costs as much as one session of Botox, which only lasts 3 months. 
H Karamanoukian MD FACS

Platinum Plus Provider for miraDry since May 2011
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The sweat glands in the axilla account for approximately 2 % of the total body. Therefore, you will NOT compensatorily increase sweat production in other areas of the body nor will it affect your ability to cool yourself.  Best wishes,Dr. Ravi Somayazula

The sweat glands in the underarm area account for approximately 2% of your body's total sweat glands. By destroying such a small percentage of sweat glands should not result in compensatory sweating.

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Dr G

Fortunately, compensatory sweating in other areas such as the hands, feet and back were not reported to happen in miraDry during their preliminary studies to obtain FDA approval for the treatment.  Since it has been FDA approved in 2011, there have been very few reports of compensatory sweating post-procedure.  In my clinic, we have performed close to 300 procedures and have had only one case where a patient started sweating a little around the areas treated with miraDry in the armpit area.

miraDry works quite differently from Botox - so it would be quite unusual to see what is called compensatory sweating (having more production from the sweat-prone areas of the body that were not treated) after the procedure.  Since miraDry eliminates only the sweat glands in the armpits (about 2% of your body's total), your body (and you) won't really miss them.



Hope this is helpful,

Dr. Lim

What you describe, where increased sweating occurs in other parts of the body after sweat glands are destroyed in one area, is called compensatory sweating. With MiraDry there have been only extremely rare reports of this happening. In our practice we have done over 100 MiraDry treatments and have not had this occur with any of our patients. 

Good question and a very common one that patients ask us. Thankfully,  patients do not experience any compensatory sweating (sweating in other areas to compensate for not sweating in the underarms) after Miradry. The underarms make up only about 2% of your body's total sweat glands, so losing them isn't significant to the body to properly control temperature.