I noticed this going a few days without reply.

I've been doing research on my own symptoms, and came to realize that many look for symptoms of hyperparathyroidism, when in fact, the symptom of that is hypercalcemia. Having found sporadic success looking under hyperparathyroidism, I changed to searching symptoms of hypercalcemia and found much more success.

Your physician is going to be looking to first confirm the hypercalcemia, then to find the cause of that. 90% of the time the cause is primary hyperparathyroidism...but that must be confirmed case-by-case. My advice is to corellate your symptoms with those of hypercalcemia, and allow the MDs to diagnose the cause.

thought I replied to this last evening...will keep it brief...I have a diagnosis of hperparathyroidism already...am currently seeing my Endo, Cardio, & Ephrologist...they are working together as I have several issues going on...are trying to determine if at present time can treat with meds or should pursue surgery...as we are certain surgery is needed just trying to determine when....I made this post because Neurocardiogenic Syncope can be primary or secondary...I was diagnosed withit 2 years ago...just FINALLY received the hyperparathyroidism diagnosis 2 months ago...have had several of my issues for approx 10 yrs...with progression of some & new ones over the course of that 10 yrs...posted to see if anyone else had NCS as secondary or primary ....Thanks...

I have POTS aka neurocardiogenic syncope and just was diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism but haven't seen an endo yet and don't know if there is a connection.

chase 6180...thanks so much for replying...good luck with everythiing & please keep us posted....

It absolutely causes heart palpitations and insomnia. And high blood pressure. Calcium ions are what make your muscles contract. Having too much calcium in your blood actually causes your muscles and nerve processes to slow down. In my case, I just went through menopause and apparently estrogen has a blocking effect on PTH, so without estrogen, my symptoms got much worse. I pushed to get a thyroidectomy. My doctor didn't want me to do it. I had the tumor out 6 weeks ago--not a moment too soon I believe. Try reading parathyroid.com There's a lot of good ino there.

Oh...and the palpitations and the high blood pressure are history.

I was recently diagnosed with ncs with a positive tilt table test. Waiting to see a cardio Doctor
I hate it it's sucking my life down the drain!! Trying to cope with my symptoms it's hard at times no medications are working for me right now.