Talk:Hypoparathyroidism

Question

I only just found out after a year of seizures, tetany, hairloss and tooth decay that I have hypoparathyroidism. My calcium has been low for a long time, but despite several hospitals and doctors, noone picked it up till now. Nonetheless off to see Endocrinologists soon and am now on calcium supplements and Vit D. Many doctors told me I had depression, the baby blues and all sorts of things till we got to the bottom of it. This article in Wikipedia has helped me understand this condition better, hopefully leading to improvement. --Tuppenze (talk) 05:54, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, good it was eventually discovered, and hope you're doing better now. Could it be that your calcium was never really very low? Because a really good-going hypocalcemia should really prompt investigations for parathryroid disease or vitamin D deficiency. Alternatively, your parathyroid hormone levels were checked and found to be "within the normal range" (which in your case would have been insufficient). Anyway... JFW | T@lk 00:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

NEJM

doi:10.1056/NEJMcp0803050 NEJM review. JFW | T@lk 00:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Corrected today to doi:10.1056/NEJMcp0803050. I messed up the doi in 2008 but clearly did not follow this up. JFW | T@lk 10:59, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Hypoparthyroidism Association

I am glad you were finally diagnosed, but it is not uncommon for patients to go YEARS before diagnosis. Calcium levels can be low and doctors will still overlook hypoparathyroidism. Most of the time you are sent home with the instructions to take more calcium and Vitamin D but the thing is with hypoparathyroidism due to lack of (or really low levels) your body does not know how to handle it. Depression also been associated with hypoparathyroidism. The Hypoparathyroidism Association is a really good reliable resource for support and education about hypoparathyroidism. To find out more about our Association go to our website www.hpth.org. Jhunsaker0264 (talk) 18:35, 24 February 2011 (UTC)Hypoparathyroidism Association, Inc.

Some sources

PMID 21349811 - history of the parathyroids

PMID 12105389 - signal transduction in the parathyroid

PMID 16519596 - calcium regulation (it's HUGE!)

PMID 19328421 - use of autoantibodies

JFW | T@lk 10:54, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

can it go away and come back later in life?'

my 15 yr old son had a siezure abhout a mth ago it was bad enough he stopped breathing and his stepfather had to give him cpr while waiting on an ambulance at the hospital they did a catscan an ekg and some blood work said they werent sure why he had a seizure i told them when he was born that he had seizures and the dr at childrens hospital said he had hypoparathyroidism but she blew me off. when he was diagnosed at 1 week old they said they couldnt be sure if it was because the gland wasnt fully matured yet or if it was because of a deformity that the only way to know would be to wean him of the calcium and vit d to see if he would be ok i guess they decided it just wasnt matured because they stopped giving it to him his father stopped taking him to that dr when he was close to a yr old im not sure that they were ready to release him from there care but he seemed to have been doing fine until now. after reading this article i realize he may have more symptoms he has had leg cramps headaches and when he was much younger he complained with stomach cramps once so severly that i took him to emergency room but of course they didnt really do anything and he seemed to be feeling a little better when we got their anyway he has had 3 broken bones including a buckle fracture and he has cavaties where as my girls never had any i had figured maybe it was because of the meds he took as an infant the dr had also said his calcium levels in his bones was higher than normal so i had wondered if that was why he broke bones so easily. anyway he is in the care of my ex husband who has not taken him to a dr because he has no insurance i have now got insurance on him myself but his father doesnt want me taking him to dr (i plan on checking him out of school and taking him anyway) my question is do you think this could be hypoparathyroidism causing him seizures again? if so how do i get dr to check him for it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.12.200.72 (talk) 15:06, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Not in source

.Kenny- Caffey /syndrome ,.Sanjad-sakati syndrome

These were added, but I don't think they're in the source. Requires a source. JFW | T@lk 08:17, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Possible citation for the use of recombinant human parathyroid hormone

The're is a statement that needs citation that reads as follows: "but research is being conducted to establish recombinant human parathyroid hormone (1-84) (rhPTH[1-84]) as just such a replacement". If the following link was used as citation would it be valid? http://edrv.endojournals.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/33/03_MeetingAbstracts/S18-3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.236.20.151 (talk) 17:19, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

I've been looking at the use of recombinant PTH - another source here: [1] --Kick the cat (talk) 17:01, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Guideline

doi:10.1210/jc.2015-3907 JFW | T@lk 14:57, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Several other papers in the same issue about hypoparathryoidism here. JFW | T@lk 08:07, 3 June 2016 (UTC)