What Is Hyperhidrosis?

Alright I’m a 14 year old guy, I am perfectly fit and healthy, I’ve got no health issues whatsoever. Ever since around half-way through last year, (when I was 13) it started happening. By the end of last year it was pretty bad but I thought it might have been because I was unfit or something. Over the 6 week holidays I excercised extremely hard, and nothing has changed. The first day back this year I sweated heaps more then last year. So obviously I figured it was something worse, and I looked it up and now I’m quite sure I have hyperhydrosis. Hyperhydrosis is excess sweating of palms, underarms and feet, and it begins in adolescence (usually).

I’m 100% sure I have this. My palms sweat when I’m writing, my palms sweat when I’m using a mouse on the computer. My underarms sweat to the extreme, and my feet obviously do because my socks stink like crap
So I told mum and we had an argument over it, because she thought it could have been nervousness. But as I said, I sweat when I’m just writing in a classroom. So she said she would take me to a docter if she wanted to, since I showed her what hyperhydrosis is and it matched my symptoms clearly. My questions are: what would a docter do to find out if I have it? What would a docter give me? Do I need to pass medical exams like blood tests? I’m hoping that the docter doesn’t do any thing serious.

Thanks for answering!

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