Parathyroid question

[sbadd]

Not sure if anyone on here has experienced this but my mother in law has just been admitted to hospital, they have found high calcium levels in her blood and now saying she requires surgery for parathyroid, just after any info regarding this, maybe someone has been through this?

[Lora7again]

My Uncle's sister had this and had to have her parathyroid glands removed because there was something wrong with them. She is ok now and only has to have her calcium levels monitored.

Here is a link about it

nhs.uk/conditions/hyperpara...

[sbadd in reply to Lora7again]

Thankyou just wondered if they remove all glands do they require medication after?

[Lora7again in reply to sbadd]

She is not on any medication at the moment but when she was first diagnosed she was very ill because there was too much calcium in her blood. They are monitoring her calcium levels to make sure they don't get high again. I think they only removed 2 .. I will ask my Uncle when I see him next

[sbadd in reply to Lora7again]

Yes my mother-in-law been ill on and off now for 2 years was put down to depression by doct but we made her go to hospital yesterday as she hasn't left house in 6 weeks and sleeping all the time and nauseous, losing weight, no appetite, thank god she went as this is what they found

[Lora7again in reply to sbadd]

Yes she was the same and they took ages to find out the cause. She had the op a few years ago now and is fine so try not to worry.

[sbadd in reply to Lora7again]

Thankyou yes we thought early dementia shes only 69 but started becoming confused etc and shes normally social butterfly

[Lora7again in reply to sbadd]

Poor woman I hope she gets the treatment she needs and makes a good recovery.

[sbadd in reply to Lora7again]

Yes thankyou im just glad my partner forced her to go , she didn't want to, at least she has an answer now to why she has been the way she has, bloody doctors i swear ive lost faith in them, she has been seeing him regularly 2, and just keeps upping antidepressant, makes me Angry

[Lora7again in reply to sbadd]

I don't blame you this is a life threatening condition .... I would complain about the Doctors who misdiagnosed her.

[sbadd in reply to Lora7again]

Yeah pretty bad hes had her on same antidepressant for over 10 years which apparently ambos told us is not a long term one, never thought to switch brands not once when they stopped working for her.

[Lora7again in reply to sbadd]

Some antidepressants are addictive and people can rely on them. Luckily I have never had to take them.

[sbadd in reply to Lora7again]

I have and now been of them for 5 years, my doct last year thought i had fibromyalgia and wanted to put me on them, i didn't fit symptoms so i changed doct as my symptoms were of overmedication of thyroid meds, since stopping meds and restarting im nearly back to normal, weird thing is my bloods didn't show overmedicated apart from higher end t4 and t3, so glad i didn't take other docts advice

[t3rr in reply to Lora7again]

Yes, I have had a parathyroid adenoma, high calcium and parathyroid blood tests confirmed further investigation, then sesta mibi scan and ultrasound scan, which confirmed the adenoma, which was removed with the affected gland., so I now have 3 parathyroid glands left.

I felt so much better after the operation, which was 3 years ago. I am 71 so a similar age group.

[sbadd in reply to t3rr]

Thankyou yes she was having surgery this arvo, we still awaiting news

[Lora7again in reply to sbadd]

Any news?

[sbadd in reply to Lora7again]

Yes had surgery yesterday arvo, discharging her later today, dont know yet how many removed, so will see her in next few days but apparently went well, thankyou for asking