Excessive sweating during peri-menopause

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Hopefully, it's like one poster wrote, maybe it's a sign of fitness. When I ride as a crew member for the 3 day, I'm sure I will be soaked at the end of the day.

I'll bet your fitness IS the reason for all the sweat. Read this.

[marni]

I don't think that there is a single woman in my gym over a certain age who does not sweat profusely, constantly while working out. Not to mention the running nose! You can just about tell a womans age by how often she swipes her nose while exercising.

I take comfort in the fact that it indicates a sign of of increasing fitness.

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Not to mention the running nose! You can just about tell a womans age by how often she swipes her nose while exercising.

Ha, I ALWAYS run and bike with a hanky...when it's warm it's mostly for sweat, but the rest of the year it's for snot. Though I do have craptacular sinuses, so I've always blamed that for my faucet of a nose.

[PamNY]

I don't think that there is a single woman in my gym over a certain age who does not sweat profusely, constantly while working out. Not to mention the running nose! You can just about tell a womans age by how often she swipes her nose while exercising.

I take comfort in the fact that it indicates a sign of of increasing fitness.

I've never heard of a runny nose having to do with age. Is that common? I wonder if it's air conditioning that's the problem -- AC has always made my nose run (at any age).

[new2ride]

"I'll bet your fitness IS the reason for all the sweat. Read this."

I read the article -- interesting. I'm going with the fitness explanation

[Crankin]

I never wipe my nose! It might run when I ride in really cold weather, but I just "suck it up." I hate anything to do with blowing my nose. Seriously, it makes me gag and thankfully, even when I have a cold, I don't get the kind of stuffiness that makes my nose run. It just gets full and dry, not runny.

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I never wipe my nose! It might run when I ride in really cold weather, but I just "suck it up." I hate anything to do with blowing my nose. Seriously, it makes me gag and thankfully, even when I have a cold, I don't get the kind of stuffiness that makes my nose run. It just gets full and dry, not runny.

Oh, man...I have to wipe mine. I can't snot rocket. Not that I wouldn't want to, but I can't work up the pressure. The few times I tried I ended up with snot on my shoulder. My nose just flows...I can soak a hanky during an hour+ run or ride when it's cold. I suspect that I may have a deviated septum, but I don't want to go through surgery for it if it's even half as painful as it was for my best friend. She has the most amazing pain tolerance of any woman I know and STILL said it was far worse than childbirth or getting thrown from a horse.

[OakLeaf]

Y'know, take it back to the beginning...

What don't you like about sweating?

Is it a matter of having to wear more, and more delicate, clothes at work than one normally would? That seems like the only issue that's really a problem ... if you're not sensitive to wool, converting an entire wardrobe to washable summer-weight wool would be expensive, but would probably eliminate any issues.

If it's odor, that's not sweat volume, that's body chemistry. Usually (though not always) remedied by a clean diet and/or a change in toiletries or detergent.

Is it trying to get your fluid and electrolyte intake in balance? That's an issue for me, and I'm probably going to wind up seeing a sports nutritionist sooner than later.

Something else?

To the extent that it's related to menopause, remember that you're just beginning to sweat, almost, a little bit, like a man. The way men sweat, with acceptance from themselves and others, all their lives.

(And pigs don't sweat.)