A symptom of low body temperature
Insomnia and Narcolepsy
As mentioned previously, patients with Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome commonly have trouble sleeping at night even though they can be very tired and sleepy during the day. The fatigue noted during the day makes the insomnia related to Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome all the more disturbing.
Narcolepsy is the tendency some people have for falling asleep at inappropriate times, whether they like it or not. Several patients that I have seen have gotten into fender-benders because of falling asleep at the wheel. One patient burned her hand when she awakened to find the food she was cooking on the stove had started a fire. In one interesting case, the patient actually fell asleep while she was walking for exercise. As odd as it sounds, she had actually awakened to find herself having taken a couple of steps and veering off her path. She sat down, resting her chest on her legs, and slept for ten or twelve minutes before completing her walk. Such complaints can respond quickly and dramatically to proper thyroid hormone treatment, restoring normal sleep-wake cycles, helping people to sleep at night soundly and to awaken rested so they can face the day without fatigue.
What counts as a low body temperature?
Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome is characterized by body temperatures that average below 98.6 measured orally, typically below 97.8.
How insomnia from low body temperature is usually treated
From the book — Sleeping Pills
Paradoxically some patients with Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome who suffer from fatigue during the day also complain of insomnia or difficulty sleeping at night. These patients are often treated with sleeping pills that control the insomnia with varying degrees of success, sometimes not working at all. Many of these patients return to having normal energy during the day and sleeping very soundly at night once their body temperature patterns are returned to normal.
What patients say about insomnia
In their own words
“…Hopefully, as I get further along with my T3 work, the Narcolepsy/Insomnia (and all my other symptoms) will stop.”
— John Williams · read more stories
“They end up with patients with insomnia, anxiety, palpitations, and shakiness.”
— Endocrinologist, Anchorage, Alaska · read more stories
“They end up with patients with insomnia, anxiety, palpitations, and shakiness.”
— Multiple doctors · read more stories
Dr. Wilson on insomnia
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.
Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome
Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome is a persistent but reversible slowing of the metabolism, marked by a low body temperature and classic low-thyroid-like symptoms despite normal thyroid blood tests.
Thyroid and Anxiety
People who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks may have low temperatures, and recovery from Wilson's Temperature Syndrome often means freedom from anxiety without resorting to drugs.
Thinning Hair? Check Your Body Temperature
Thinning hair or hair loss? Check your thyroid. Wilson's Temperature Syndrome. Why low body temperature can cause thinning hair, and how T3 therapy may help.
Where this comes from. The WT3 protocol has a small published record: a 2006 peer-reviewed clinical report on eleven patients (Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, PubMed), a 2012 clinical-experience paper by Dr. Wilson (Journal of Restorative Medicine, eleven patients, not a controlled trial), and a 2015 interview with him indexed on PubMed Central. 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 →