You know I have been wondering this myself and especially today in light of my latest labs. I always hear about the calcium causing problems but not much about the pth. I read somewhere, and should have bookmarked it, that the parathyroids are one facet of your immune system. From what I understand everyone has cancer cells but if your immune system is strong it can destroy them before they get a chance to organize and cause problems. PTH has a lot of components to it but now I am going to try to find out more. I'd be interested in what you have found as well.

That is very interesting,my calcium level where slowly climbing upward that is when the nausea and the feeling of a brick sitting on top of my stomach started,my last labs my calcium went down to 10-4. I was hopeing my problems would go away or atleast be milder.But no that wasn't the case.So Iam not sure if its always higher calcium levels that causes problems.

Interesting Bonezz,

Could you elaborate on the "brick" sensation? I thknk I know what you mean. I've never heard anyone describe it like that. Could you be more descriptive?

Regards, Brenden.

I will try Brenden, It is in the upper part of the stomach right in the middle it feels heavy and when I move around alot or do alot of walking I feel like holding on to my upper stomach to keep it still to kept the discomfort down that really doesn't work though..It does not burn like gerd.Maybe somewhat like indigestion,It will give me a queasy feeling.My endo did tells me that HPT will cause a lot of gastric problems in some people.He did make it sound more like the high calcium causing issues, so that is where my hope was when the calcium went lower maybe the stomach thing would go away,not.Hope that helps you.

Hi Bonezz,

The feeling I get is like this; It feels like I need to support myself with a truss or corset (I'm a man, so that won't work) sort of like my muscles or whatever don't like me standing errect. If I stand next to a counter and put my palms on it and support my upper body weight with my arms, the strange pain or pressure or whatever it is feels better. Do you find some relief when laying down?

Regards, Brenden.

The increased blood calcium from HPT can affect gall bladder function and affect digestion. The stomach symptoms you describe also occur in people experiencing IBS, Celiac disease, GERD, and stomach-acid problems from too much GERD medication! (Great, huh?)

Call me crazy, but it seems to me that correcting the blood calcium level would be very helpful.....:^)

(One additional note--thyroid issues can affect gall bladder function too--I did not know that!)

You asked about PTH's effect on the body--apparently it can make you fat! (Take with large grain of salt--there is a lot going on here!)

Still the Ca, though--you are right that PTH doesn't seem to do anything without Ca. :^)

http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/VitDNonAuto/MccartyPTHObesity.pdf

Yes Brenden laying down even sitting down helps, With me its seem to be the moving around makes it worse.I also hang on to the counters and I drive a shopping cart like a 90 year old lady,.It doesn't happen every day I will have some really good days.Paraglider I was thinking it just mite have something to do with gallbladder,I should ask the doc if I should have it checked out.Thanks for the link.