Hi, I'm new here

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Where do I start? Two years ago I got pregnant with a very late in

life baby. Pregnancy at almost 50 was hard (and definitely not

planned - I have a grandson who is 5) My fibroids grew so large I

looked like I was carrying triplets by the time I was five months

along. I couldn't walk anymore without significant pain. I started

using a wheelchair occassionally. Before all this I ran three miles

a day and was in awesome shape. Now I couldn't walk.

I lost the baby (to be expected since I was too old to have it) and

still couldn't walk. Fibroids still huge. After many misdiagnoses

and lots of unnecessary treatment at great expense we finally

learned I had also grown (besides the fibroids) a rather rare tumor

on my parathyroid gland. Ah well tumors just love extra estrogen so

the pregnancy really made problems bigger.

I had surgery to remove the fibroids and then they cut open my neck

and removed the tumor there. That helped. I could walk again without

pain (the tumor caused so much calcium to leach from my bones that

they were severely painful) without the tumor, no more leaching,

pain disappeared almost immediately. Unfortunately my body took some

major hits at the same time. I lost function of my remaining glands

and woke up to a calcium crash. Instead of too much I now had almost

none. Over the course of a year the lack of calcium in my blood,

brain and muscles has led to developing other endocrin problems..

such as adrenal fatigue and now food allergies I never had.

At this point I wake up feeling okay for about a half hour. Then I

eat. Within an hour I'm exhausted. I fall on the bed and sleep in an

almost comatose way. I've been blaming this on low calcium (my

doctor did) but I've wondered lately if this could at all be related

to my eating. My sister is type one, adult onset diabetic, my

brothers are hypoglycemic. I've never been tested for diabetes since

I had gestational in my 20's. All I know is my life has become a

whirlpool of eating and sleeping. I almost never feel good. I

urinate constantly, and blamed that on fibroids pushing the bladder.

I just feel sick and very tired almost all the time. My brain is in

a fog and I make plans that I forget to keep (such as deciding to

call the doctor) This isn't any kind of life. Thing is I'm guessing

it may not be diabetes (which would actually be helpful to me since

there is no cure or real treatment for hypoparathyroid disorder -

its too rare for drug companies to bother with) I'm thinking maybe

not diabetes since every now and then, inexplicably, i feel fine for

a day. Not real often, but just every now and then.

Any thoughts?