Thanks for the input, but I was talking about the parathyroid, which is a different gland than the thyroid. Many people make this mistake,hearing thyroid but not para. That said,I found an endocrinologist through NORD who cured my hypoparathyroidism. All she did was to take me off of calcitriol and it sprung right back in a period of 3 to 4 months. None of the other doctors knew squat, so they consider this to be a medical miricle. I still have my other post cancer side effects but they cured this one, which is a disease which can be much more devastating than cancer.