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Congrats on your two year milestone!!!
I just wanted to add that my father suffers from parathyroid disease also and has the same effects that you described. He was dx about ten years ago and was having so many problems that we thought he was having a breakdown. The doctor finally did some research, and found that there was only place in the US that could even do the blood test for this. He is doing fine now, didn't have to have surgery, and only has to drink a mixture of magnesium and a few other things twice a day. He has to continue that for the rest of his life. You can really tell if he misses a dose or two because you can tell that he seems that he is slipping into a depressive state. It's very strange how that affects a person.
Before the doc dx's it, his answer was to start him on anti-depressants, and that really made things worse. He was curled up in a fetal position for about a week and wouldn't even speak until we found out what was going on.
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Diagnosis and Treatment: DX 12/07/07
Male Diagnosed with DCIS at age 39
Mastectomy on right breast
Tumor Stage pt1b NO MO
DCIS Tumor size 1.5 x 1.x .6cm
Infiltration tumor size .25X.17 cm
Bloom-Richardson Grade 3(score 8)
Nuclear Grade 3 with comedo necrosis
Estrogen+/Progestrone+/HER-2/Neu +++
FISH ratio 4.31
Lymph node removal scheduled 1/07/08
17 nodes tested and all negative 1/08/08
Started Tamoxifin 1/29/08
Oncotype DX score 52 (off the charts, according to my onc!!!)
Starting TCH 3/14/08
BRCA I Positive BRCA II Negative
Finished TC 6/27/08 continue Herceptin
8/1/08 Herceptin stopped due to low Muga score
Mastectomy on left breast 11/10/08
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