Re: osteopanic resolved

[Guest guest]

Hello All,

I feel I need to follow up my postings on osteopenia from one month ago.

Seeing that everyone is worried that CR may be the cause of boneloss, I wish

to report that osteopenia has nothing to do with CR diet in my case. I have

been diagnosed, upon further analyses with hypercalcemia (too much calcium

in the blood) the cause of which is hyperparathyroidism. The parathyroid

gland puts out too much parathyroid hormone and this can cause leaching of

calcium from the bones, too much calcium in the blood and many other

maladies such as fatigue, depression, nausea etc.This can be caused by too

many glands, enlarged glands or tumorous glands (benign or malignant)

Thank heaven I didn't just accept the diagnosis of osteopenia, more calcium

and fosamax, but convinced my Docter to test further as my diet is picture

perfect, as is my exercise routine with weightlifting etc etc for 25 some

years.

There is only one thing to do for this and it is immediate surgery to remove

enlarged glands, or tumorous glands. I am praying there isn't anything murky

as we had thyroid radiation as " standard practice " against goiters when we

were kids in the 50's- . Criminals! In those days I also had a skin rash

and they nuked my hands as well. My vocabulary isn't large enough to express

the contempt and anger I feel.

Anyway, it ISN'T CR!!!!!

Thank you for the extensive on list and off list support and this wonderful

forum! Without all the posts about bone disease, diet etc. I wouldn't have

known enough to request more extensive testing to find the source of the

problems.

best wishes to all!

MM

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[Guest guest]

on 6/11/2002 3:49 PM, Mambo Mambo at mambomambo@... wrote:

> There is only one thing to do for this and it is immediate surgery to remove

> enlarged glands, or tumorous glands. I am praying there isn't anything murky

> as we had thyroid radiation as " standard practice " against goiters when we

> were kids in the 50's- . Criminals! In those days I also had a skin rash

> and they nuked my hands as well. My vocabulary isn't large enough to express

> the contempt and anger I feel.

MM : is it the opinion of yor doctors that the cause was the radiation?

As an aside I have a friend who was radiated for her acne as a teenager and

now has skin cancer; it's kept under control with surgery for the lesions

that appear on her skin.

[Guest guest]

>

> > There is only one thing to do for this and it is immediate

surgery to remove

> > enlarged glands, or tumorous glands. I am praying there isn't

anything murky

> > as we had thyroid radiation as " standard practice " against

goiters when we

> > were kids in the 50's- . Criminals! In those days I also had a

skin rash

> > and they nuked my hands as well. My vocabulary isn't large

enough to express

> > the contempt and anger I feel.

>

> MM : is it the opinion of yor doctors that the cause was the

radiation?

>

> As an aside I have a friend who was radiated for her acne as a

teenager and

> now has skin cancer; it's kept under control with surgery for the

lesions

> that appear on her skin.

Another side affect of radiation exposure is leukemia. I just

buried a very dear friend 2 weeks ago...56 years old...previous

aircraft radar technician in the service (20 years). I've observed

many instances of military personnel being exposed at close range

(several feet) to operating radar systems that were being worked on

by maintenance personnel. Radar folks weren't aware of people out

in front and people out in front weren't familiar enough with the

equipment to realize that it was transmitting. I remember guys

joking about not needing condoms anymore because they had walked in

front of an operating radar system. The perceived immortality of

youth....

Bob