W222
07-22-2004, 11:40 AM
I posted this in neuro also, but wondering if you could she any light.
I am entering med school this fall so I have no real background to answer this puzzle, I was wondering who could help? My father is mid-50s and a carpenter/contractor/Big Dig inspector by trade. He noticed that last year he began to have a tremor in his right arm and that things were progressing quickly. He went to a neurologist who diagnosed him with early Parkinson's and he recommended Dopamine therapy to help stop the tremors. Well, Dopamine did nothing and the doctor said that this drug was a good diagnostic indicator that my father did not have Parkinson's. THEN my father relayed a strange story to me: He said he had been swimming in cold water and that when he got out and changed he was cold/shivering/goose bumped on one side of his body (only on the right side) and that he had no shiver on the left and no goose bumps on left either. I read somewhere (BRS I believe) that this sort of thing points to cranial nerve damage, ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHAT IS GOING ON? I am just curious and could use some info.
I am entering med school this fall so I have no real background to answer this puzzle, I was wondering who could help? My father is mid-50s and a carpenter/contractor/Big Dig inspector by trade. He noticed that last year he began to have a tremor in his right arm and that things were progressing quickly. He went to a neurologist who diagnosed him with early Parkinson's and he recommended Dopamine therapy to help stop the tremors. Well, Dopamine did nothing and the doctor said that this drug was a good diagnostic indicator that my father did not have Parkinson's. THEN my father relayed a strange story to me: He said he had been swimming in cold water and that when he got out and changed he was cold/shivering/goose bumped on one side of his body (only on the right side) and that he had no shiver on the left and no goose bumps on left either. I read somewhere (BRS I believe) that this sort of thing points to cranial nerve damage, ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHAT IS GOING ON? I am just curious and could use some info.