I remember reading somewhere that alcohol can raise pth levels.

My suspicion is that many (most?) HPT suffers self-medicate. Personally, I never found alcohol to be aversive. Quite the opposite. Alcohol also produces a temporary relief on high blood pressure, although it contributes to hypertension chronically. So I'm not surprised that there is no literature correlation between HPT and alcohol use. It's complicated. Patients will self-medicate until they feel really bad, and then they stop. In fact, the correlation between moderate alcohol use and longevity is largely driven by the fact that those who are healthy tend to drink, while those who are no longer healthy stop drinking (alcohol use does not lead to long lives, but healthy people continue to drink). So there you go.

Here is the article from the Cleveland Clinic that talks about alcohol incresaing pth levels and how with chronic abuse can lead to hyperparathyroidism.

http://health.usnews.com/health-conditions/bone-joint-health/osteoporosis/managing

Alcohol is related to SECONDARY Hyperparathyroidism as opposed to Primary Hyperparathyroidism.
In secondary hyperparathyroidism all parathyroid glands become overactive because the body usually is not absorbing the calcium or lacking calcium. Basically this occurs in chronic drinkers because they are drinking booze instead of milk.
Secondary hyperparthyroidism is also common in people who have gastric bypass surgery because they do not intestinally absorb the calcium from their diet as easily.
Secondary hyperparathyrodism also effects people who are anorexic, malnourished or do not consume enough calcium in their diet. These people are usually given vitamin d and calcium supplements which will lower their PTH. However, sometimes th
Secondary hyperparathyroidism occurs in people also with chronic kidney disease needing a kidney transplant.

As parachild said, high PTH is a natural response of the body to low calcium. If calcium is low due to dietary issues, or some other issues, then PTH should be high to compensate. Primary HPT is the conjunction of high blood/tissue calcium and high PTH, indicating that the PT glands are running amok. Bad glands have to go. Good glands will elevate PTH only when calcium is low. This steals calcium from the bones, because your tissue must have calcium (or you will die).

Alcohol is an unrelated factor to primary HPT. Don't think that you can cure primary HPT by reducing drinking or by improving your diet. It's not going to happen.

I never had the muscle pains from alcohol. What I did notice was that I actually had a tendency to drink more when I had symptoms but no explanation for them. (This, I think, is the self-medication that PostPTJoe is talking about.)

For the last two or three years before my surgery, I woke up every morning with a little headache whether I drank the night before or not, and went through my day with brain fog regardless of amount of alcohol consumed. The only difference was that if I had a couple of drinks in me, I felt slightly happier! So, no real downside to drinking.....

Post-surgery is a different story. Now, I get real sleep, wake up in the morning feeling good, and can think. I cherish these things. If I have too much to drink, my sleep is disturbed, I get a headache, and can't think. So now I drink less, because I don't want to feel the way I did every minute for years before I got my PTH adenoma out!

Neat, huh?