“The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down,/ You can’t let go and you can’t hold on,/ You can’t go back and you can’t stand still.” — “The Wheel” by the Grateful Dead Sometimes I feel like living with hypoparathyroidism is like playing roulette, because I never know…
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I recently participated in a clinical study for chronic pain and depression. For several weeks, I answered surveys about my mental health and my willingness to stay alive. The irony of living with post-surgical hypoparathyroidism is that every day I look for strategies to feel better and to stay…
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“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.” — Bessie Anderson Stanley I have lived more than half my life with hypoparathyroidism. My world forever changed after a total thyroidectomy for Graves’ disease in 1998 resulted in my life-changing hypopara diagnosis. Before…
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Encaleret increased bone turnover markers and improved patient-reported symptoms in people with autosomal dominant hypocalcemia type 1 (ADH1), a genetic form of hypoparathyroidism, in a Phase 3 trial. At 24 weeks, all participants receiving encaleret reported improvement in at least one ADH1 symptom, compared with 46% of those receiving…
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