What sort of digestive symptoms did you get with primary hyperparathyroidism?
In the early stages of the disease I got a lot of nausea and would be sick for no obvious reason. I thought at first I had a bit of food poisoning but it used to happen ad hoc and went on for a long time. I believe it was the high calcium level. GERD is a known symptom of Primary Hyperparathyroidism.
Thank you, Rosemary. I'm getting a lot of gas, reflux and nause. My issue is that my calcium is only mildly elevated and my UK docs aren't very interested. Were you an 'obvious' case or a more subtle presentation?
Hello Ed
-Oh dear, that old chestnut again that the calcium is only mildly elevated! It may only be a bit outside the normal range BUT usually it will still cause horrible symptoms and will still be doing damage. In a nutshell I was initially misdiagnosed at first with polymyalgia rheumatica and put on steroids for a year (that was awful) but then discovered what I had and long story short I went to the famous expert clinic in Tampa to have my adenoma removed. Most doctors know little about PHPT and either dismiss the high calcium or give you the wrong diagnosis. There are 21 different symptoms for this disease and I had a lot of them. I had it for at least 6 years and was really ill before I got it fixed. It will eventually led to osteopenia then osteoporosis and the adenoma(s) needs to be removed.
An elevated calcium and a raised PTH are the classic signs of this disease.
Hi Ed, I'm 6 months post op having had a tumour removed in January, nausea and vomiting were a daily occurance for me, eventually I was put on anti sickness tablets until my operation, there is a fabulous support group on Facebook called Hyperparathyroid uk action 4 change, lots of help and support particularly for someone with normal/high calcium levels, indigestion & GERD are very common symptoms
Karen
Thanks for the replies.
Do you remember your numbers? Ca and PTHs?
normal ca range is 2.1 - 2.55 Mine was first noted at 2.65 and it varied, once it was 2.75 and at its hightest it got to 2.9.
normal PTH range is 1.6 - 7.2 mine was 8.58
Levels can fluctuate and labs can vary very slightly.
Hope this helps.
Thank you very much.
you're welcome Ed. If your doctor ignores your elevated levels, try another doctor. The damage this disease causes to the body is measured by the clock not how high the calcium goes so gettting it sorted out is paramount, it only gets worse with time. Let us know how you get on.
Good luck.
Rosemary I was recently diagnosed as well...myLCA ION came back High 1.37 and Calcium level 11 I went to endocrinologist in June she said we will repeat blood in Aug. I can't wait to have it done as i dont feel myself at all. I thought perhaps its from the surgery i had 5 months ago for gerd and Hiatal Hernia repair...it was during my recovery that we discovered this because i had palpitations...now we discover its parahyperthyroid. Now things come together as i read....the surgeons said they never saw a stomach w/so much acid...this must be why as well...they said literally "YOU MADE HISTORY" therefore I had Hiatal hernia repair and Nissen fundoplication which is wrapping stomach around the esophogaes....I wonder if all this played a part of the severe gerd as well...Now i have developed my hands from time to time feels prickly and itchy, feet as well. I have a tremor in my neck, and physically tired and short tempered. It is so hard to distinguish is this all recovering as well from this major surgery...the fatigue. Now i am trying to distinguish this blood level of the LCA ION....any advice ? Liz
Hello Liz - apologies for the late reply but I have been away on holiday and on my return going through my emails saw your message.
I am sorry to hear that you are not feeling well. GERD, fatigue, palpitations, irritability, elevated calcium are all some of the many symptoms of Primary Hyperparathyroidism which is what I actually had (not PMR which was my initial incorrect diagnosis). I believe that your symptoms are mainly due to the parathyroid disease rather than post-op recovery although you can get fatigue post-op as well.
Presumably your Endocrinologist has told you that you have primary hyperparathyroidism. With an elevated calcium it is highly likely. It means you are likely to have a growth on one of the 4 parathyroid glands (which control the calcium level in the blood) and these 4 glands, the size of a grain of rice when normal, are in most cases situated behind the thyroid. Sometimes all 4 glands are enlarged (4-gland hyperplasia) but in most cases it usually means just one gland has developed a growth and is producing more PTH than it should and this causes the calcium level to be higher than it should be. Most people who have it have just one growth on one of the glands (an adenoma). The adenoma will need to be removed. If it isn't removed, more symptoms will develop and they will gradually get worse. You will need to find an experienced parathyroid surgeon (which isn't easy) to remove the enlarged gland. (I went to a specialist clinic in Florida to have mine removed).
The calcium level will fluctuate a bit because the adenoma causes the parathyroid gland to become out of control and produce too much parathyroid hormone which in turn removes calcium from the bones (leading to osteopenia and osteoporosis) and puts it in the blood and causes the calcium to be high.
My advice is ifyour calcium is still high in August, don't let them fob you off with the "let's just watch it" approach because things will just get worse. You will need to get the adenoma removed. I hope this helps. Let us know how you get on.
Kind regards.
Rosemary
Thank You Rosemary I hope you had a great holiday....I will go for blood work on Mon tell me am i not supposed to take the vit d when going for the blood work.? I want to say i recall dr saying stop day before is that true that its one day before and not two weeks someone mentioned? Thx for all your info.,also what hotel did u stay when in Fla?
Hi Liz - thanks, yes I had a lovely time away. We are having a few more days away this Tuesday too - trying to make the most of the sun!
We stayed at the Courtyard Tampa Downtown (102 E Cass St, Tampa, Fl 33602). It was very nice and they were very helpful and there were lots of other patients there either waiting to have their op or who had recently had it. They also organise a shuttle to take you to and from Tampa General (except my appt in the mornng was 5.15 a.m.and we went by taxi as the shuttle didn't start until 6.00 a.m. but that may have improved, they did take us back to the hotel after. We then stayed in Florida for a 2-week holiday after my op, we hired a car and went to Clearwater first and then onto Fort Myers for a relaxing time, we had a wonderful stay.
A word of caution - when you have high calcium, you should NOT take Vitamin D (or calcium supplements) as this will make you feel worse and will not help. When you have Primary Hyperparathyroidism (PHPT), most people have a low Vitamin D but that is because the body lowers it deliberately as a protective measure. Before I had my adenoma/bad parathyroid gland removed, my surgeon instructed me NOT to take any Vit D or calcium in the weeks prior to my op. He said they could be restarted once the adenoma was removed and the calcium and PTH were back to normal. Taking them when you have an adenoma is the wrong thing to do. I have not heard about not taking Vit D before a blood test - I only found that out once I had been in contact with my surgeon. But since you should not take Vit D (or calcium) when you have PHPT, if I were you I would stop taking it period. Taking Vit D (and calcium) when you have an adenoma increases your chance of having a heart attack or stroke and just makes you feel worse and also it won't help. But once the adenoma has been removed, then you can take Vit D and Calcium. PHPT always leads eventually to osteopenia and osteoporosis so you will need the calcium and Vit D once the tumour has been removed to improve your bones.
Which country are you in, I don't think you are in the UK???
Now you know you have this disease, my personal advice is to look at the website of the specialist centre in Tampa, Florida where I went (not allowed to give email addresses here) but their educational site about this disease is second to none and they understand this disease better than anywhere else in the world which is why I went there. They lead surgeon has devoted 25 years of his life to perfecting his minimally invasive op with a local anaesthetic and it's all over in about 20 minutes. They know from exoerience where to look for the adenomas. Mine wasn't in the usual place behind the thyroid but deep under my collar bone in the top of my chest buried in my thymus gland. They would never have found it over here. It didn't show up on the Sestamibi scan in Florida but their special gamma probe also helped to locate it. I am soooo glad I went there.
Anyway hope this helps. I wish you all the best, let us know how you get on after your blood test on Monday.
Kind regards.
Rosemary
Rosemary Thank You so much for the valuable advise. I feel so awful these days...of course as i may have said i am still recovering from the Hiatal hernia operations and nissen fundoplication and attributed everything to that. Until during early recovery my heart was palpitations and feeling awful...i am so down at times i want to cry at the drop of a hat....this weekend my hands were stinging and hip pain which i never had ..took tylenol as i dont do drugs of any kind.....it subsided today i feel better...so many things going on one can get quite weary.....your advice i cherish ...i will be in touch when i have news...By the way i do live in the USA Massachusetts....Florida is a 2 1/2 hour flight....what i fear is if something doesnt turn out the way expected and to be so far fromhome....my husband is 77 years old and it all scares me but i will do what i have to do i guess.....here im not so sure about the surgeon they recommended stating he was good....thats not good enough for me . They indicated he did only thyroid surgery thats it....my sugeon who i love that did my stomach surgery recommend him dr jabiev ., i want to say his nurse said 6 or 9 surgeries all of thyroid problems didnt sound like just hyperparathyroid, i dont know what to do as i am not thinking clearly either these days and these night sweats off and on i dont like.....i will be in touch again thank you and God Bless Elizabeth
Hi Liz
I am so sorry to hear that you are feeling so awful and I really can empathise because that's how I felt. You do what you can to try and make yourself feel better and there is the odd day when you feel slightly better but then there are days when you feel really terrible. I felt tearful too and I also had terrible headaches most days (I don't now)! I know it takes a while to get over an operation, but a lot of your symptoms are also those of PHPT and of course despite your op, you won't feel as well as you might expect because you have high calcium (hypercalcaemia) which in itself makes you feel unwell. I felt like I was going down with the flu most days too.
In the States PHPT is known by the pneumonic "itchy, twitchy, witchy and bitchy" because of the symptoms and in the UK doctors learn the symptoms by the pneumonic "bones, stones, moans, groans and psychiatric overtones". The "bones and stones" refer to the symptoms of osteoporosis and kidney stones (quite a few sufferers get kidney stones, more common in men) and the "moans and groans" are the stomach symptoms and the "psychiatric overtones" are the depression-like symptoms that it causes and forgetfulness and it also makes people short tempered (when they normally wouldn't be). There are 21 symptoms in all and I had quite a lot of them. My surgeon said I had had my adenoma for at least 6 years and because it mainly affects postmenopausal women, some of the symptoms can overlap and it can often be mistaken for a few other diseases such as polymyalgia rheumatica, which I was incorrectly diagnosed with initially and then when the Rheumatologist prescribed steroids for it, a doctor I saw said all the increased symptoms were due to the steroids!! It wasn't until I broke 3 teeth ! that another doctor said they had better check my calcium level and that's what brought to light my high calcium (that and a subsequent bone scan which then showed osteopenia, almost to osteoporosis level) not helped by steroids which also leach calcium from the bones!
...../Ctd Liz, I will send you this bit and then another as it's quite long but it is useful to know all of this.
Ctd. My flight was almost 10 hours to Tampa. 2 1/2 hours will go quite quickly. You are right to trust your instincts and not choose the surgeon you were told only operates on the thyroid. You need a real parathyroid expert, parathyroid surgery is quite tricky. I have noticed that people have a habit of saying "my surgeon was good, he didn't cure me, but he was really nice"!! Really?? It's not how nice they are, it's how skilled they are that matters, if these people weren't cured then those surgeons were not experts. The thyroid is different to the parathyroids. The parathyroids just happen to be situated behind the thryoid anatomically but they have nothing to do with the thyroid, they have a different role in the body. You need an expert parathyroid surgeon and going to a surgeon who has only done a handful of ops, that means he/she isn't an expert. This would result in you not being cured and then needing a further operation. In Tampa they do approx 3 re-ops every day because the patients weren't cured the first time around.
One of the biggest benefits of the surgery in Tampa is that it is done WITHOUT a general anaesthetic so there is much less chance of damage to your vocal cord. Also the recovery is so much quicker, the surgery takes approx 20 minutes under a local anaesthetic (you are still asleep so know nothing of it) and you can leave the hospital approx 1 or 2 hours later. Most people go out to dinner afterwards the same evening. I just felt like I had had a peaceful nap afterwards, there was no sickness at all and I didn't feel as if I had had an anaesthetic even. It was truly amazing. I had never had an operation before but I was relieved at how smoothly it all went.
Regarding anything going wrong, it's virtually unheard of in Tampa, they have an almost 100% success rate and in any case the hardest cases are usually the people who have already had at least one failed surgery because every surgery causes scar tissue and that gets in the way (and can also resemble cancer under the microscope). You have to send in a series of results for them to compile a personal chart for you and they can then confirm whether you definitely are likely to have an adenona looking at the blood results and if there are any other issues that could prevent your surgery.
When I had my op, we met a very nice couple from California and the wife had surgery just after me. She was in her 70s and ironically had been a nurse for over 40 years - and she had had her adenoma for up to 20 years and didn't realise that she had PHPT. It turned out that she had 2 adenomas removed - the second one was half the size of the first one. Her husband said to me that she used to be able to walk 8 miles a day but by the time she had her op, she couldn't walk anywhere. Her 2 adenomas were in the usual place just behind her thyroid and she had the 1 inch bandaid that the surgeons put on the little incision. We bumped into them again on a pier a few hours after she had her op and she was fine.
Anyway, I perambulate too much - sorry - but I really truly wish you all the best and hope you will be cured soon, the sooner the better. Take care. God Bless and look forward to hearing how it all goes.
Kind regards.
Rosemary
My flight was almost 10 hours to Tampa. 2 1/2 hours will go quite quickly. You are right to trust your instincts and not choose the surgeon you were told only operates on the thyroid. You need a real parathyroid expert, parathyroid surgery is quite tricky. I have noticed that people have a habit of saying "my surgeon was good, he didn't cure me, but he was really nice"!! Really?? It's not how nice they are, it's how skilled they are that matters, if these people weren't cured then those surgeons were not experts. The thyroid is different to the parathyroids. The parathyroids just happen to be situated behind the thryoid anatomically but they have nothing to do with the thyroid, they have a different role in the body. You need an expert parathyroid surgeon and going to a surgeon who has only done a handful of ops, that means he/she isn't an expert. This would result in you not being cured and then needing a further operation. In Tampa they do approx 3 re-ops every day because the patients weren't cured the first time around.
One of the biggest benefits of the surgery in Tampa is that it is done WITHOUT a general anaesthetic so there is much less chance of damage to your vocal cord. Also the recovery is so much quicker, the surgery takes approx 20 minutes under a local anaesthetic (you are still asleep so know nothing of it) and you can leave the hospital approx 1 or 2 hours later. Most people go out to dinner afterwards the same evening. I just felt like I had had a peaceful nap afterwards, there was no sickness at all and I didn't feel as if I had had an anaesthetic even. It was truly amazing. I had never had an operation before but I was relieved at how smoothly it all went.
Regarding anything going wrong, it's virtually unheard of in Tampa, they have an almost 100% success rate and in any case the hardest cases are usually the people who have already had at least one failed surgery because every surgery causes scar tissue and that gets in the way (and can also resemble cancer under the microscope). You have to send in a series of results for them to compile a personal chart for you and they can then confirm whether you definitely are likely to have an adenona looking at the blood results and if there are any other issues that could obstruct surgery.
When I had my op, we met a very nice couple from California and the wife had surgery just after me. She was in her 70s and ironically had been a nurse for over 40 years - and she had had her adenoma for up to 20 years and didn't realise that she had PHPT. It turned out that she had 2 adenomas removed - the second one was half the size of the first one. Her husband said to me that she used to be able to walk 8 miles a day but by the time she had her op, she couldn't walk anywhere. Her 2 adenomas were in the usual place just behind her thyroid and she had the 1 inch bandaid that the surgeons put on the little incision. We bumped into them again on a pier a few hours after she had her op and she was fine.
Anyway, I perambulate too much - sorry - but I really wish you all the best and hope you will be cured soon, the sooner the better. Take care. God Bless and look forward to hearing how it all goes.
Kind regards.
Rosemary
My flight was almost 10 hours to Tampa. 2 1/2 hours will go quite quickly. You are right to trust your instincts and not choose the surgeon you were told only operates on the thyroid. You need a real parathyroid expert, parathyroid surgery is quite tricky. I have noticed that people have a habit of saying "my surgeon was good, he didn't cure me, but he was really nice"!! Really?? It's not how nice they are, it's how skilled they are that matters, if these people weren't cured then those surgeons were not experts. The thyroid is different to the parathyroids. The parathyroids just happen to be situated behind the thryoid anatomically but they have nothing to do with the thyroid, they have a different role in the body. You need an expert parathyroid surgeon and going to a surgeon who has only done a handful of ops, that means he/she isn't an expert. This would result in you not being cured and then needing a further operation. In Tampa they do approx 3 re-ops every day because the patients weren't cured the first time around.
One of the biggest benefits of the surgery in Tampa is that it is done WITHOUT a general anaesthetic so there is much less chance of damage to your vocal cord. Also the recovery is so much quicker, the surgery takes approx 20 minutes under a local anaesthetic (you are still asleep so know nothing of it) and you can leave the hospital approx 1 or 2 hours later. Most people go out to dinner afterwards the same evening. I just felt like I had had a peaceful nap afterwards, there was no sickness at all and I didn't feel as if I had had an anaesthetic even. It was truly amazing. I had never had an operation before but I was relieved at how smoothly it all went.
Regarding anything going wrong, it's virtually unheard of in Tampa, they have an almost 100% success rate and in any case the hardest cases are usually the people who have already had at least one failed surgery because every surgery causes scar tissue and that gets in the way (and can also resemble cancer under the microscope). You have to send in a series of results for them to compile a personal chart for you and they can then confirm whether you definitely are likely to have an adenona looking at the blood results and if there are any other issues that could obstruct surgery.
When I had my op, we met a very nice couple from California and the wife had surgery just after me. She was in her 70s and ironically had been a nurse for over 40 years - and she had had her adenoma for up to 20 years and didn't realise that she had PHPT. It turned out that she had 2 adenomas removed - the second one was half the size of the first one. Her husband said to me that she used to be able to walk 8 miles a day but by the time she had her op, she couldn't walk anywhere. Her 2 adenomas were in the usual place just behind her thyroid and she had the 1 inch bandaid that the surgeons put on the little incision. We bumped into them again on a pier a few hours after she had her op and she was fine.
Anyway, I perambulate too much - sorry - but I really wish you all the best and hope you will be cured soon, the sooner the better. Take care. God Bless and look forward to hearing how it all goes.
Kind regards.
Rosemary
My flight was almost 10 hours to Tampa. 2 1/2 hours will go quite quickly. You are right to trust your instincts and not choose the surgeon you were told only operates on the thyroid. You need a real parathyroid expert, parathyroid surgery is quite tricky. I have noticed that people have a habit of saying "my surgeon was good, he didn't cure me, but he was really nice"!! Really?? It's not how nice they are, it's how skilled they are that matters, if these people weren't cured then those surgeons were not experts. The thyroid is different to the parathyroids. The parathyroids just happen to be situated behind the thryoid anatomically but they have nothing to do with the thyroid, they have a different role in the body. You need an expert parathyroid surgeon and going to a surgeon who has only done a handful of ops, that means he/she isn't an expert. This would result in you not being cured and then needing a further operation. In Tampa they do approx 3 re-ops every day because the patients weren't cured the first time around.
One of the biggest benefits of the surgery in Tampa is that it is done WITHOUT a general anaesthetic so there is much less chance of damage to your vocal cord. Also the recovery is so much quicker, the surgery takes approx 20 minutes under a local anaesthetic (you are still asleep so know nothing of it) and you can leave the hospital approx 1 or 2 hours later. Most people go out to dinner afterwards the same evening. I just felt like I had had a peaceful nap afterwards, there was no sickness at all and I didn't feel as if I had had an anaesthetic even. It was truly amazing. I had never had an operation before but I was relieved at how smoothly it all went.
Regarding anything going wrong, it's virtually unheard of in Tampa, they have an almost 100% success rate and in any case the hardest cases are usually the people who have already had at least one failed surgery because every surgery causes scar tissue and that gets in the way (and can also resemble cancer under the microscope). You have to send in a series of results for them to compile a personal chart for you and they can then confirm whether you definitely are likely to have an adenona looking at the blood results and if there are any other issues that could obstruct surgery.
When I had my op, we met a very nice couple from California and the wife had surgery just after me. She was in her 70s and ironically had been a nurse for over 40 years - and she had had her adenoma for up to 20 years and didn't realise that she had PHPT. It turned out that she had 2 adenomas removed - the second one was half the size of the first one. Her husband said to me that she used to be able to walk 8 miles a day but by the time she had her op, she couldn't walk anywhere. Her 2 adenomas were in the usual place just behind her thyroid and she had the 1 inch bandaid that the surgeons put on the little incision. We bumped into them again on a pier a few hours after she had her op and she was fine.
Anyway, I perambulate too much - sorry - but I really wish you all the best and hope you will be cured soon, the sooner the better. Take care. God Bless and look forward to hearing how it all goes.
Kind regards.
Rosemary
My flight was almost 10 hours to Tampa. 2 1/2 hours will go quite quickly. You are right to trust your instincts and not choose the surgeon you were told only operates on the thyroid. You need a real parathyroid expert, parathyroid surgery is quite tricky. I have noticed that people have a habit of saying "my surgeon was good, he didn't cure me, but he was really nice"!! Really?? It's not how nice they are, it's how skilled they are that matters, if these people weren't cured then those surgeons were not experts. The thyroid is different to the parathyroids. The parathyroids just happen to be situated behind the thryoid anatomically but they have nothing to do with the thyroid, they have a different role in the body. You need an expert parathyroid surgeon and going to a surgeon who has only done a handful of ops, that means he/she isn't an expert. This would result in you not being cured and then needing a further operation. In Tampa they do approx 3 re-ops every day because the patients weren't cured the first time around.
One of the biggest benefits of the surgery in Tampa is that it is done WITHOUT a general anaesthetic so there is much less chance of damage to your vocal cord. Also the recovery is so much quicker, the surgery takes approx 20 minutes under a local anaesthetic (you are still asleep so know nothing of it) and you can leave the hospital approx 1 or 2 hours later. Most people go out to dinner afterwards the same evening. I just felt like I had had a peaceful nap afterwards, there was no sickness at all and I didn't feel as if I had had an anaesthetic even. It was truly amazing. I had never had an operation before but I was relieved at how smoothly it all went.
Regarding anything going wrong, it's virtually unheard of in Tampa, they have an almost 100% success rate and in any case the hardest cases are usually the people who have already had at least one failed surgery because every surgery causes scar tissue and that gets in the way (and can also resemble cancer under the microscope). You have to send in a series of results for them to compile a personal chart for you and they can then confirm whether you definitely are likely to have an adenona looking at the blood results and if there are any other issues that could obstruct surgery.
When I had my op, we met a very nice couple from California and the wife had surgery just after me. She was in her 70s and ironically had been a nurse for over 40 years - and she had had her adenoma for up to 20 years and didn't realise that she had PHPT. It turned out that she had 2 adenomas removed - the second one was half the size of the first one. Her husband said to me that she used to be able to walk 8 miles a day but by the time she had her op, she couldn't walk anywhere. Her 2 adenomas were in the usual place just behind her thyroid and she had the 1 inch bandaid that the surgeons put on the little incision. We bumped into them again on a pier a few hours after she had her op and she was fine.
Anyway, I perambulate too much - sorry - but I really wish you all the best and hope you will be cured soon, the sooner the better. Take care. God Bless and look forward to hearing how it all goes.
Kind regards.
Rosemary
OOPS sorry - I cut and pasted my reply so I wouldn't lose the text so it's not as long as it looks it's just that it had duplicated what I wrote - sorry!
I am so grateful to you Rosemary as I was beginning to think I am losing my mind...how can i possible have so many things wrong with me.....Before this HH repair & Nissen I said to my husband i have a bucket list to tend to after surgery...not knowing I had this and its a contributing factor....the head tremor is scarey and chest pains.....I cant thank you more for making me feel its all part of this disease....Here we rely on the advice of our doctors that we have to trust.....and she will have me waiting 2 yrs for the next ultra sound...imagine? Thank You and God bless You for helping me.....I feel like I know you and wish we lived closer... xo Liz
Awww thank you Liz, I was very happy to share my story and what I know, and am glad it has helped you. It's very lonely when people simply don't understand just how bad having PHPT makes you feel and having to live with all the horrible symptoms.
Regarding the depression-type symptoms, the Tampa website has a blog written by a Psychiatrist who says that people don't just suddenly develop depression-type symptoms and that when doctors refer patients to her, the first thing she does is have them do a blood test to see if their calcium is high because so many patients are misdiagnosed with depression and given antidepressants when in fact it is being caused by the high calcium. Every cell of the body needs a certain amount of calcium, not too much and not too little, which is why it's tightly regulated by the parathyroid glands. The high calcium affects the central nervous system which includes the brain so it causes brain fog and depression-like symptoms.
Take heart because you will be pleased to know that when the adenoma is removed, this all goes away and you will after a little while feel normal again.
Unfortunately doctors (although they mean well) don't always get it right first time (as I discovered to my cost) so we need to be our own advocates. If you go to a specialist parathyroid surgeon you will get better from this and feel pretty much normal again although everyone has a different recovery rate. Think positive. It is a disease that can be cured - if the adenoma is removed. Take care. Rosemaryxx
Rosemary Will they have me on meds when i leave? Do they phone the house when i return home to check on things? We are sch'd to go on a cruise Oct mid., i wonder if i get started now will they schedule surgery quickly in Fla..I read 3 weeks from whem they get blood tests....do they order any tests here for me to have done?