Episode 7: Crossover Symptoms and Hyperparathyroidism

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They include the menopause, fibromyalgia, depression, and hypothyroidism, underactive thyroid. Some of the symptoms that menopause sufferers can experience are hot flushes, night sweats, mood changes, and sleep disorders. Memory and concentration issues. Some women may experience brain fog, including challenges with focus, recalling information, or completing tasks.

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They can also experience joint aches and pains, experience inflammation in joints, leading to discomfort and pain, difficulty sleeping, headaches, migraines, anxiety and depression. All of the aforementioned I've experienced myself in addition to my symptoms of hyperparathyroidism. Moving on to fibromyalgia symptoms, Many, many patients who have been diagnosed, and indeed many members within our support group who have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, before they've been diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism, will suffer from this.

Some of these symptoms if not all or some that simply aren't mentioned here, so it's really important to make sure That you know which health challenge is which and which symptoms are which and which symptoms cross over. Fibromyalgia is a neurological condition that causes widespread pain, fatigue, and

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brain fog,

according to the NHS's website, the main symptom of fibromyalgia is widespread pain that might feel like an ache, a burning sensation, a sharp stabbing pain, or a mixture of these three feelings. The pain is likely to be continuous, but it might be better or more severe at different times. And often referred to as a fibro flare up.

As well as widespread pain, people with fibromyalgia might also have increased sensitivity to sensations like touch, light, temperature, noise, and more. and more. fatigue, extreme tiredness, muscle stiffness, difficulty sleeping, problems with mental processes known as fibro fog, and problems with memory and concentration.

They can also experience headaches, bowel syndrome, A digestive condition that causes stomach pain and bloating. Dizziness and clumsiness.

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Feeling too hot or too cold. Restless leg syndrome. Tingling, numbness, prickling or burning sensations in your hands and feet, pins and needles. Also known as parathesia.

Anxiety and depression. Again, some of those crossing over with the menopause symptoms. And therefore in turn. are crossing over with hyperparathyroidism. So we'll touch lastly on symptoms of hypothyroidism, which is underactive thyroid. Again, according to the NHS, common symptoms include tiredness, being sensitive to cold, weight gain, constipation, depression, slow movements and thoughts, muscle aches and weakness, muscle cramps.

Dry and scaly skin, brittle hair and nails, loss of libido, pain, numbness and a tingling sensation in the hands and

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fingers thank you for listening. Please join me for episode 8 where I share helpful tips for navigating a diagnosis for hyperparathyroidism in UK and elsewhere.