Well for months now my Calcium levels have been high along with my Cholesterol so now I am on Cholesterol meds and will see what happens with that in a month or so.
My Ca levels however is a different matter. So ya hear Ca levels and ya think no biggie there right, WRONG Ca controls your heart as well as your bones. Well the results were high last year when I was still in Ft. Lewis but my nurse case manager said "no biggie" and sent me on my way. When I got to Ft. Campbell I had to get all my medications switched to this area and had some routine blood work done that's when it first started. My levels were elevated and they wanted more blood. So more blood I gave, then they were showing even higher so now they wanted a urine sample and a 24 hr urine to see if my kidneys were OK because Ca also causes kidney stones. Well they came back high also. So she had me do a DEXA scan to see if I was loosing Ca from my bones but that came back normal. That's when my doctor decided to send me to an specialist, Endocrinologist, in Nashville. Well off I go on a hour drive to see a specialist with a copy of all my lab work so that they can move forward without more blood work. LOL yea right they took even more blood, urine, and wanted another 24hr urine (which is a pain in the a$$ BTW). Well they got those results and guess what my Ca levels were high in both blood and urine. So now they have me go and take a what is called a parathyroid scan because 99% of the time its caused by a tumor (benign) on the parathyroid so I figured groovy get a small surgery have one of them removed and move on. Well there was no tumor so now we are left with the 1% of causes which are all bad. I'm talking cancer here and death. Come to find out having high Ca in blood and urine is really rare in fact the resident that was overseeing my care has to turn my case over to the head Endocrinologist to take care of so Tuesday I go and see her to find out what test to do next and isolate what is wrong with me. To give you and idea normal Ca is below 300, and stroke and heart attack are 350, currently at my last test was 333 and it has been slowly rising.
Side note the side effects for high Ca is what is kicking my a$$. Tiredness, weakness, memory problems, trouble concentrating, just feeling run down all the time. And lets not forget short temper and just general bitchiness (my poor family) Well lets add this to the fact that I am trying to quit smoking so I am not that easiest person to be around right now. So it has been a big pity party for me lately. I don't really have any friends that are close to me we only just moved here like 6 months ago, I don't know exactly what is wrong so its hard to tell people because it is unknown what is wrong, just hurry up and wait. Well I told my girls what was going on and of course then it spread like wildfire because the main thing that it could be right now is Cancer (breast or lung) which I am hoping for breast (hey some new boobs) lol and just that word has everyone worried. Its great that I have people who are worried at the same time not so much because then I feel like I have to comfort others because they are worried and want to know what is going on. So I figured that if I put it on here then everyone can look and read so that I won't have to explain it over and over.
Right now I have decided that I can't control my body only my response to it so I choose to live like nothing is going on (lots of coffee, suckers, and deep breaths) and just keep plugging along until the doctor tells me different. If everyone could keep me in their prayers that would be groovy
