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hi all At 22:44 2000/09/15 -0500, frans wrote: >I don't know that it is. I do know that I am much more >prone to be bothered by cold, e.g. I shiver in situations >that I used have no problem with. On the other hand I >perspire more often too... > >Greg & Suzanne wrote: > >> My dad's tremor has gotten worse lately & he says he >> has been running a lower than normal body temperature. >> He says it has been between one and two degrees low. >> He is not on any PD medications. In fact he has an >> appointment with a Movement Disorder Specialist next >> Wednesday to be diagnosed. He is planning to check >> with his general practitioner about the low temperature >> but I wondered if this might be related to PD. Any >> insight would be appreciated. one of the secondary symptoms of pd is the impaired functioning of the body's thermo-regulatory system viz: many parkies have great difficulty dealing with high temperatures and are more at risk than the general population during heat-waves i don't know if this would relate to actual body temperature i remember thinking the same thing about my own body temperature running a degree or more lower than normal for a few months well after diagnosis, but i was too much of a coward to go for blood tests to check whether it was thyroid related and it 'went away'. i guess it wasn't thyroid related! fwiw when i am 'off' and in need of some dopamine my face will flush (which i tend to do easily anyway e.g. sometimes after drinking coffee or alcohol) it's tempting sometimes to attribute all problems 'to the pd' but on the other fence it's frustrating that so much information about pd sometimes seems to be in our list archives and not in our medicos' heads janet janet paterson 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd tel: 613 256 8340 url: "http://www.geocities.com/janet313/" email: [log in to unmask] smail: POBox 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada