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@daisy17
You are in a difficult situation. From what I read, you have parathyroid disease that affects your calcium but you cannot have surgery?
If so that means that you have to have a dual action of lowering calcium and protecting your bones. Am I understanding this correctly?

I believe that this is the injection etc to which you are referring:
Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA): A needle-like probe uses heat to destroy the overactive parathyroid tissue under local anesthesia.
or sometimes this procedure may be used:
Ethanol Ablation: Medical-grade alcohol is injected directly into the parathyroid tumor to kill the overactive cells.

Some good news though is that if you can take care of the parathyroid then your osteoporosis may completely clear up or at least become much more manageable. The PTH and calcium levels though high aren't horrible it seems so that is good also.

Please continue to let us know how you do. You seem to be in good medical hands and just need time to let this problem reveal its self completely.

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daisy17 | @daisy17 | Feb 15 11:35am

@kathleen1314 You are correct about my situation. Since my blood calcium and PTH levels aren't extremely high, just at the normal-high levels or slightly above, my Mayo Dr said we could wait a year and then re-evaluate regarding ethanol ablation. That technique is done 3 times over a 3 day period, and then isn't always successful or has to be redone in the future. My OP is severe so the procedure won't correct it, but may help it from getting worse in the future.

Thanks for your concern.

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