![]() ![]() The effect is extremely pronounced because the other half of the face compensates by sweating and flushing excessively - a condition called hyperhidrosis. The symptoms vary from one individual to the next, but always include the “Harlequin Sign,” where one side of the face doesn’t sweat or flush at all, a condition known as anhidrosis. The startling nature of Lam’s normally healthy thirty-year-old reflection was a sign of Harlequin syndrome, a rare and poorly understood disorder of the nervous system. ![]() His left arm, too, was sweaty and florid, while his right was dry and pale. There was literally a line down the middle of my face,” he recalls. In the locker room afterward, Lam glanced in the mirror to find a bizarre reflection staring back at him: his face was flushed deep red and sweating profusely - but only on the left side. “I look over and see that there’s sweat dripping down my left arm,” remembers Lam, “and my right arm is somehow totally, totally dry.” ![]() While working out at the gym one afternoon in August of 2008, Francis Lam began feeling “sweaty and hot, and - kinda weird,” as though there was a cool breeze blowing only on the right side of his face.
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