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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had to get up 1-2 times a night to pee.  It turns out I had hyperparathyroidism.  I had a parathyroidectomy and was literally cured immediately.

I no longer wake to pee even though I am 59 and in full menopause.  The difference it has made to my quality of sleep and thus my mood, cognition and memory is incredible.  [/quote]

What were all your symptoms?[/quote]

Couldn't sleep through the night - had to pee once or twice and not even 60 yet.  Little deep sleep. Restless but not restless legs.  Slow inexorable weight gain.  Would eat and not be satiated.  Vitamin D dropped (because calcium was too high).  Irritable mood.  Didn't want to go out and do stuff -- just apathetic.  Tired during the day.  Heart flutters intermittently.  Blood pressure and glucose were a bit higher but not yet high enough to justify beds.  Would get very cold in hands and feet and sometimes in chest, sometimes so cold that I was exhausted and had to get under the covers and take a hard nap for an hour in the middle of the afternoon.  Memory and focus problems.  Constipation so bad I had to get a rectocele repair.  A simple fall from standing and broke my arm at 55.  Gastric reflux so bad for so long that I started to get a noticeable hoarse voice that I was try to clear many times a day.

I went to several doctors complaining and, of course, was written off as menopause or just getting fat with old age, etc.

Surgery radically improved most of that.  [/quote]

Where you hypo or hyper?[/quote]

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