Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Posted by janoh @janoh, Apr 8 10:17am

15 years ago I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism and have been on Levothyroxine 75MCG.
Recently I’ve seen an Endocrinologist because of some new symptoms.
She did the bloodwork and said have Primary Hyperparathyroidism.
Can someone explain what this is?
Thanks!

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Usually these are benign adenomas of one of the parathyroid glands, these are 4 tiny glands located in the thyroid. When it produces too much parathyroid hormone (PTH), it can raise calcium levels, which usually causes a lot of issues, various pain and calcium deposits in places they don't belong.

They usually order a sestamibi scan to look.

See website
https://www.parathyroid.com/
In there somewhere the website mentions often it is a low Vitamin D leading to some of these kinds of diagnoses.

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Usually these are benign adenomas of one of the parathyroid glands, these are 4 tiny glands located in the thyroid. When it produces too much parathyroid hormone (PTH), it can raise calcium levels, which usually causes a lot of issues, various pain and calcium deposits in places they don't belong.

They usually order a sestamibi scan to look.

See website
https://www.parathyroid.com/
In there somewhere the website mentions often it is a low Vitamin D leading to some of these kinds of diagnoses.

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@bjroc
What Is a sestamibi scan?
When my endocrinologist messaged me she mentioned maybe çhanging my BP medicine.

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@bjroc
What Is a sestamibi scan?
When my endocrinologist messaged me she mentioned maybe çhanging my BP medicine.

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@janoh

They use that kind of scan should they want to check for adenoma, but good your docs want to look at other things too first. I don't know on BP med connection but BP meds are often very hard things on the rest of the body. Vitamin D is a big one on these things too, supplements that have D3 with K2 is the way to raise.

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