and I’m both terrified and excited.

After years of being debilitatingly sick and getting positive result after positive result I finally got a clue when I asked for the parathyroid levels to be tested. My mother recently had an elevated parathyroid level as well as very low vit D and advanced osteoporosis. The new doctor I was seeing while waiting for mine to come into the room was rather dismissive of this idea because, “That’s only an issue with post menopausal women,” but thank God my doctor came in with, “You want them tested? Sure!”

Normal is between 18 and 65 and mine was 110!!!

Now, normally this accompanies even slightly elevated calcium levels and mine are low/normal which means, with my celiac, that is more likely the cause. BUT the exception, and the evidence that you have both celiac and hyperparathyroid is if calcium levels were elevated before the malabsorption issues kicked in.

So I talked to my mom about the “calcium” issues I had on a test when I was about 11 and she said that the doctor had told her the calcium levels were through the roof and far too high to be accurate.

This means . . . almost guaranteed, a parathyroid tumor. Since my health issues go back to a very sudden change when I was 7, combined with my starting to develop puberty issues (the parathyroid is right behind the thyroid), and other endocrine symptoms, and EVERY symptom I have is a symptom of hyperparathyroid–including the ACID REFLUX!

My only concern now is, because of the celiac, what extra tests they will need to do. In fact, I’m so convinced from everything I’m reading on my own, that I’d do the surgery without the scan (what the leading hospitals do when malabsorption isn’t an issue because without that thrown in it’s a 100% guarantee of a tumor!!!)

And the kicker is . . . after 30 years of being sick . . . after this difficult, encumbered, debilitating life I’ve led . . . after having to work 10 times harder than anyone else to accomplish what I do . . . within a month I could have TOTAL health in my body! I’m ready to cry.

If you think of me tomorrow please pray. I’ll update when I know something.