High blood calcium levels are never normal.
What is interesting is that many patients I see have had an elevated calcium level and the next response from their doctor is to recheck it. Often the second level will be normal as calcium varies day to day. The important thing is to recheck again.
Symptoms of a high calcium vary hugely. The standard advice is that calcium has to be high (nearly 3.0mmol/l) to cause symptoms.
This is wrong. Many patients with mild elevations of calcium have symptoms and indeed are at risk of osteoporosis. One of the reasons for this is that some patients will be passing out lots of calcium in the urine.
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