This is a great question. Unfortunately there isn’t a single answer for everyone. On average, most people will feel better within a few weeks after surgery, and this improvement can continue for months. But that is just the average. I have had patients who wake up after surgery and felt like a cloud was lifted. They feel amazing, right after the operation. These patients are rare, but they happ...

Parathyroid hyperplasia is a form of hyperparathyroidism in which all four glands are overactive. In the most common form of primary hyperparathyroidism, a patient will have one or two parathyroid adenomas, benign tumors that grow from the parathyroid glands. But some patients have hyperplasia, which is not caused by parathyroid tumors. It is simply an enlargement and overactivity of all of the...

Thanks for asking! There are a couple of aspects to your question. First, how common is it to have recurrent parathyroid disease? It's hard to get firm numbers on exactly how many people end up having more than one parathyroid operation, because patients often follow up with different providers, and a recurrence can take many years to present (like in your situation). So I can't give an exa...