@tsch

Yes, I hope you can get by without parathyroidectomy. I may also only have 1 gland gone haywire. I told readers here my painful, locking RIGHT hand trigger thumb. I didn't tell you ('til now) what I had done about this a few weeks ago. I met with a plastics surgeon who said she's done many injections of a corticosteroid drug into the base of the thumb to end (maybe only for months) the trigger thumb. Just before she was about to do the 2 close-together injections she asked me if I was diabetic. I said "No" and asked her why she asked me that. She replied that the corticosteroid drug raises blood sugars. The injections were done and 2 days later the painful trigger thumb was absent! Now I'm thinking there's perhaps some strong link or connection - maybe not known by most in medicine - between hypercalemia (from having hyperthyroidism), injection of a corticosteroid and the rapid start of acute pancreatitis. If this is the case, it would be incredibly rare I suppose and MDs just wouldn't think of this link/connection.