I took Forteo for 10 months. and i can barely walk. i took Tymlos for the first 6 months and was fine, and then Forteo for 10 months. my strength is gone, my feet hurt wearing shoes, i have stomach pain when exercising, and ave thigh muscle cramps, neck pain, and can't sleep. I had confusion when driving, so i told my doctor i'm done with this. I know where i'm going these days, but I now use a walker around the house, elastic knee braces to walk on my own.
I have severe osteoporosis and am trying to take Forteo. I started out with half dose and have worked up to a full dose. The full dose 2 days in a row was disabling. My doctor suggested every other day. So I let the previous trial work its way out of my system for 5 days and tried another full dose. This is three days after the dose and I am weaker each day. I move in slow motion. My doctor is puzzled. Anyone had a similar experience?
Please go to Parathyroid.com and read -it has TONS of info about hypercalcemia and its symptoms, as well as parathyroid disease and some other possibilities. Hypercalcemia is exactly what brought me here to begin asking questions and I discovered I had a parathyroid tumor (not cancer and only a big deal if you don't get it removed).
I have worked with this site for many years assisting people to get the medicines that they need. You should check and see if you qualify for the Forteo assistance program: http://www.needymeds.org/drug_list.taf?_function=name&name=Forteo
Good luck! I am a breast cancer patient in a drug study taking the osteoporosis drug, Zometa. There is some promising data that suggests osteoporosis drugs may help prevent breast cancer patients having recurrances of cancer as bone cancer.
My mom is 53 and is sufering from Hyprcalcemia but Doctors are unable to diagnose her. She has been tested for Cancer with a bone marrow and all they said was that she had no cancer but they are concerned because she has plasma and protein in her bllod cells. She is always tired, sleepy and has heart palpitations but EKG's come out normal. She also has sver headaches and her bones ache and is depresed. She does not have hyperthiroidism. HELP!
I would go to www.parathyroid.com and read through the material - see the symptoms involved. With high calcuim - low PTH and VIT D you fit the profile.
What kind of doctor are you seeing at this time?
or do i have to worry about it also i mostly feel thirsty and hungry all other electrolytes are fine.can i have any kind of cancer cause of high calcium?
I do not think are any real correlations between hypercalcemia at the level you are describing and heart attacks. We do sometimes see arrhythmias of the heart in patients with hypocalcemic (low calcium) and could possibly see an arrythmias (abnormal heart rhythm) in a patient with hypercalcemia but I think this would be at a higher level such as 14-15 or so.
25 which rules out a parathyroid tumor. Head to toe bone scans and bone xrays are normal as are abdominal and chest Ct scans and chest xrays and abdominal ultrasounds. Ruled out Familial type of hypercalcemia, ruled out multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic cancer, thyroid and parathyroid cancer, bone cancer, chest cancer. His spleen is enlarged. There is a small kidney stone and a small cyst on his kidney they weren't worried about. Not of Jewish descent.
I am searching for answers and have had much anxiety over this ongoing issue. For the past 3 years or so I've had mild hypercalcemia ranging between 10.6 and 10.9 usually. Last week my serum Ca. was 11.4 one day and 11.5 two days later. All other levels including phosphate have repeatedly appearead to fall in the normal range, except I did a 24 hr. urine collection and my calcium level was 323. For the past 2 weeks I've been experiencing heart palpitations as well.
bones , groans, emotional overtones
Ovarian cysts are common and that one is tiny.
I would definately get a follow up scan perhaps a pelvic MRI
If a cause of hypercalcemia is not found, you should have that ovary removed.
There is an extremely rare cancer called a small cell cancer that produces hypercalcemia.
A few weeks ago I read the pages of parathyroid.com and noticed that hypercalcemia often induces arrhythmias, eg. atrial fibrillation. Last year I had persistent flimmer for six months, until an electric cardioversion after one week's medication with Multaq took it out.
I have elevated levels of calcium and PTH in my blood. When I read about the symptoms of primary hyperparathyroidism on Parathyroid.
I've been reading about placental calcification and can't seem to find an answer to this question. I've had mild hypercalcemia for a few years and have aslo had 2 late miscarriages (consecutively) at 18 weeks. Can hypercalcemia cause placental calcification or am I way off track ? I don't smoke, so that's not a factor. Except the elevated calcium (usually about 10.9 to 11.0) I am a healthy woman who has had healthy, uncomplicated pregnancies before this calcium issue.
I had a BMD issue a couple of years ago (suffered 3 hip fractures over 2 years) and after seeing 7 different doctors my Primary Care seemed to put a ton of things together and believed I was not absorbing calcium and may estrogen levels were super low and virtually non existent. I was put on Ogestral and Forteo and knock on wood- no more injuries and a BMD increase of 22% in 1 yr. However, I started having what I thought was food allergies.
I just don’t see any references anywhere to conditions that exist when calcium is high and PTH is low. Everything I have read about hypercalcemia talks about high calcium with high PTH or hypocalcemia with low calcium and low PTH. Anybody have any experience or knowledge about conditions that might arise in a generally healthy person with high calcium and low PTH? Thank you!
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I consistently feel just all around bad, with constant heart palps and inability to exercise and concentrate. Sometimes have stomach bloating, and a white cloudy urine. Also feel aches and pains all the time, especially when waking up.
Have had full range of cardiac tests come back normal.
Hyperthyroidism? Something else?
Please help if you can.
I am 53 and just diagnosed with osteopenia of femoral neck. I exercise every day and do multiple forms of exercise. I can only assume this is because I have been on synthroid for years! I have doubled my dose of calcium to 1200 from 600mg but will now stop taking it so soon after synthroid after reading the above posts.
I've had my calcium checked and, as I stated, my calcium levels have always been high. I had hypercalcemia but the doctor pulled me off vitamin D3 (800 IU daily) and my PTH levels are always normal. I've read that excess vitamin D (up to 50,000 IU daily) can be a sign of primary hyperparathyroidism.
If such a small (comparatively speaking) dose can cause hypercalcemia, doesn't that lead one to a diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism?
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