muscle spasams

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Registered: 06-22-2004
muscle spasams
Thu, 02-17-2005 - 10:24pm


Hi:

I posted several months back about muscle spasams, and a couple of you were having them also. I have mentioned my spasams and muscle twitches to 2 endos, and both said it's either calcium/potassium problems, or possibly a sleep disorder. I have the twitches all day as well as all night (they are like those pesky eye or lip twitches you might get from stress, but mine circulate throughout almost every muscle in my body...). I had a high parathyroid level last fall, and a high urine calcium, but my endo followed up with a blood calcium test and said it was normal, so I probably don't have hyperparathyroid. I'm concerned, though, that the blood test isn't as sensitive as the 24-hour urine... and why would the parathyroid level be high?

Are any of you dealing with untreated muscle spasams or twitches? I'm interested to hear what your docs say...

Thanks,
Dee.