Cathy_S:
Pierre, I know and do my best. Even my center says it is due to the PTH. My neph refused to prescribe Hecterol or Sensipar and my calcium kept getting high on calcitriol so I would have to stop it. My neph didn’t believe that I had hyperparathyroidism because even though my PTH was above 1000 my alkaline phosphatsse wasn’t high. So, when it finally went high my PTH was about 1600 and he finally prescribed Sensipar, which lowered my calcium enough I could take the Sensipar and Calcitriol, however, in the first couple of weeks my PTH actually went higher, so it is way out of whack right now. IT has been repeated lately and they will probably double my sensipar which hopefully will lower that PTH and everything else will follow.
Cathy
OMG!! My husband isn’t even on dialysis yet and he has been on Hectorol for months. His Neph has adjusted his dosage twice as he monitored his PTH. Currently he takes one Hectorol every three days.