Two years ago my Rumatologist found a high reading of calcium in a blood test he ran and took me off calcium completely and told me to get further test and treatments. I saw a refered surgeon and it was found that I had one enlarged parathyroid and he left the decision for surgery up to me I chose to wait since he said it was not a life or death decision. This week my family physcian did some blood work and found my PTH reading to be double to what the norm is. My question is does anyone know why the parathyroid becomes enlarged? I know cancer would be one reason but are there more reasons someone may have experienced or know of.

I have an appt Sept 1 and I am sure surgery will be soon after that.

Thanks
Penny

Penny, I am sorry to see no one has had anything to add to you inquire.
I am not a specialist but I can give you something to think about and ask you Doctor.
Glutathione is the most important cellular antioxidant and depleted glutathione causes many physical and neurological problems.
So what I did was I went to Google and did a search and came up with 127,000 hits linking Glutathione & Parathyroid
Plus I did a search for Glutathione & Hyperthyroidism and came up with another 48,000 hits on that search so this will, if nothing else give you something to read.



I hope to have helped

Best regards
Randy