A symptom of low body temperature
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the numbness and tingling experienced in the hands, fingers, occasionally with shooting pains up the arm that result from the impingement of nerves that pass through a narrow tunnel at the base of the hand. The numbness and tingling frequently follow the distribution of the nerves that pass through the tunnel. It can involve the pinky and ring finger as well as the pinky side of the hand; or it can affect the thumb, index and middle finger.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is frequently seen in people who have a job that requires constant repetition of certain hand movements, but CTS has also been long associated with DTSF. As mentioned previously, the tissue swelling that results from fluid retention caused by DTSF can cause pinched nerve syndromes, especially in areas where the swelling occurs at a site where there is only a limited amount of space. When tissue swelling occurs within the closed spaced of the Carpal Tunnel, then the nerves that pass through the tunnel can become pinched resulting in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
From the book — how this is usually treated
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Surgery
Sometimes patients with Wilson's Temperature Syndrome have scars on their wrists where they have undergone surgery to release the ligament that overlies the carpal tunnel. The carpal tunnel is the bony tunnel at the base of the hand through which many of the hand's most important blood vessels, nerves, and tendons pass. The Carpal Tunnel Syndrome surgery is done to release the pressure that results from fluid retention in the tissues of the confined space that causes pinching of the nerves, and numbness and tingling of the hands. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome has long been associated with hypothyroidism. Again, however, DTSF is commonly overlooked because of over reliance on thyroid hormone blood tests. A patient presented to my office with a scar on her right wrist and numbness and tingling of her left hand. The scar on her right wrist was from the successful Carpal Tunnel Syndrome surgery that had relieved the numbness and tingling of her right hand which she had had previously. When I first saw her, she was having the identical problem with her left hand. She had already been scheduled for surgery that was to be done thirty days after our first meeting. Since her related symptoms, signs, and story were so characteristic of Wilson's Temperature Syndrome, it was recommended to her that she postpone her Carpal Tunnel Syndrome surgery until after a therapeutic trial on thyroid hormone treatment. Within the month the numbness and tingling of her hand resolved with normalization of her body temperature patterns and she canceled her Carpal Tunnel Syndrome surgery.
Dr. Wilson on this symptom
Thyroid and Fluid Retention
Low body temperature can cause fluid retention and bloating, and normalization of temperature can reverse these symptoms.
What do Migraines, Raynaud’s, Carpal Tunnel and Arrhythmia Have in Common?
Migraine headaches, Raynaud’s Syndrome, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and heart arrhythmia often share one thing in common: low thyroid function. Two studies suggest why.
Aches and pains aren’t just from aging
Doctors learn in medical school, but perhaps tend to forget, that low thyroid function can cause joint pain. This condition also causes muscle aches, tenderness and stiffness (especially in the shoulders and hips), swelling of the knee joint and small joints in the hands and feet, and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome Symptoms
The symptoms of Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome are classic symptoms of slow metabolism as in hypothyroidism. A patient doesn’t have to have all the symptoms to respond well to T3 therapy. In fact, they may only have one.
Where this comes from. A 2015 interview with Dr. Wilson on low body temperature and thyroid hormone expression is indexed on PubMed Central (Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal). Wilson's Temperature Syndrome is not accepted by every medical body — read the disagreement in full.
From Dr. Denis Wilson's book on Wilson's Temperature Syndrome. See all symptoms →