What makes symptoms of Wilson’s Syndrome different from the symptoms experienced by people with numerous health problems?
First, one of your symptoms will be a chronically low body temperature. You have to test your temperature to know whether this is true for you. Some people know. Others are surprised by the results of the test. Second, there is a pattern to the symptoms. Most people affected by this condition (though not all of them) will be very aware that most of their symptoms began at pretty much the same time – coincident with a major life stressor like the birth a child, a death in the family, a divorce, etc. A smaller number of sufferers will not be able to remember when their symptoms started, it was so long ago. The speculation is that they too may have been caused by a trauma, but one that happened so long ago it is forgotten. Some symptoms do come on very slowly, but this seems to be less common. Another characteristic of the pattern of symptoms for Wilson’s Syndrome is that not only do they usually “come on” together, but also they persist together (they don’t come and go independently). If
