Parathyroid???

[enigma24]

I have been having crazy symptoms since April and have seen about 6 specialists at mayo clinic & ER 5x. Symptoms include sinus tachycardia-up to 186, chills, bad headaches, hoarseness, flulike symptoms, sore throat, gerd symptoms (have crohns disease), anxiety has come bc of being worried and no dx, lost 15 lbs..... I just saw an endocrinologist who thinks it might be parathyroid problem after reviewing my past labs and seeing in June my Ca was 10.9 and now is 10.2 still too high. The 10.9 was thought to have something to do with all of the tums I had been taking...but it has been over a month since I have had any tums. We do have thyroid problems in the family.

The endo tested my parathyroid with blood work last week and I am waiting to hear about results. Do you think this could be a parathyroid problem? My crohns is acting up and I will be having a colonoscopy and endo this week to see what's going on but until then..... Any input would be greatly apprecited.

[Mark Lupo, M.D.]

A calcium this high is usually due to parathyroid problems.
If it has been a month w/o tums and Ca is 10.2 and was 10.9, it is still suspicious for parathyroid.  It is good that PTH was tested.

[libris]

A related discussion, parathyroid surgery was started.

[enigma24]

Thank you very much for replying. I just received the results of the PTH test and it was one point higher than it is supposed to be but my PCP does not think that it is much to worry about. I will be hearing back from the endo sometime this week. I have so many of the symptoms and with both Ca and PTH coming back high it is reason for suspicion, correct?