High calcium level?

I had a bad parathyroid and had to have it removed. I had gotten to the point I could barely walk. When I woke up in the morning, I felt as if I had been beaten with a stick. If you do have parathyroid issues, it can cause major problems with your body so definately get it checked out.

I have read that parathyroid issues are some of the most under diagnosed problems there are. I was feeling terrible, I told my doctor, I think something is wrong with me. I know I"m getting older and I know I'm overweight but this isn't right. I had a friend with low vitamin D and I asked if he would check that. He said he would and when that came back, he said it is fine but her is something that could be a problem,your calcium is high. He said we'll do another test of your parathyroid levels and see how they are and that will tell us if that is the problem. THey did and they were off. This was before I had breast cancer, although, in looking on these boards, a lot of people seem to have both and I sure wish somebody had told me that way back then and I could have watched it closer. I do wonder if my system being brought down so much with the parathyroid problem is what allowed cancer to start growing. Definately mention to your PCP maybe he could even order a parathyroid hormone level test and get the results at the same time.

I did mention that to my oncologist but she didn't seem too interested but it sure seems a lot of ladies on here had both. I had the parathyroid removed in 2008 and was diagnosed with the IDC in 2014. BUT, I admit, I had not had a mammogram in probably 20 years. I actually had two tumors, both were small but were low grade and they said to have reached that size, being a slow growing cancer, they probably had been growing 8-10 years, so that would have been about the time that my body was all messed up from the parathyroid problem. Unfortunately, I had no loss of appetite but I was literally sore, just sore, as if I had exercised a lot but I hadn't done anything and so sleepy. When I would get out of the car, I had to hold on and could barely get out. I would feel exhausted to just walk from my car to the grocery entrance just to get the cart to lean on. The good news is the surgery is simple and withing hours, I felt totally different. I could feel myself getting stronger every day. That is, until this cancer came up and this Arimidex is making me stiff all over again.

AlwaysSunny, for sure get it checked out and I was one of those that felt it within hours. I had my surgery about 8 a.m and was home by probably 2. I live about an hour and a half away from where i had the surgery and that night, it felt so different. I realized then it was almost as if my muscles had been tensed up all the time and they felt like they finally relaxed. That weekend, my husband and I went for a ride and when I got out of the car, I was so excited. I said hey, look at me, getting out of the car. I just got right out, not held the door and moaned and groaned for seemed like five minutes, just opened the door and got out. You can't even see on my neck where they did the surgery, simple, no big deal at all.