Parathyroid Disease

Primary Hyperparathyroidism

This is a reasonably common problem but the diagnosis is often delayed.

Many patients I see have had parathyroid symptoms caused by high calcium levels for many months even years.  Often looking back we can see in their blood tests results that calcium levels have been high for some time but the significance of this has not been recognised.


Surgery for primary parathyroid disease is a highly specialised area of surgical practice and should only be undertaken by surgeons who offer the full range of surgery - this nowdays includes minimal access parathyroid surgery.









The symptoms from parathyroid disease include:

• muscle aches and pains
• joint aches
• tiredness
• headaches
• bone pains
• thirst
• passing urine more frequently including at night

There are also the more classic symptoms / conditions associated with it:

• kidney stones
• abdominal pains
• mental disturbance
• osteoporosis

Surgery is the only recognised treatment - for more information look at my main sites:

http://www.bucksendocrine.com/

http://www.thyroidsurgeon.org.uk/