What Are the Symptoms?
In many cases, calcemia is diagnosed when patients are still asymptomatic, and in mild cases, no symptoms are typically present. In more severe cases, symptoms may affect certain parts of the body.
Kidney Symptoms
If there is too much calcium in the blood, your kidneys have to work extra hard to get rid of it. Symptoms may present themselves in the form of excessive thirst or more frequent urination. You also may experience flank pain between the back and upper abdomen on one side where your kidneys are because of their overuse.
Digestive Symptoms
Patients may experience an upset stomach, nausea, vomiting or constipation with hypercalcemia. It also can lead to poor appetite.
Bone and Muscle Symptoms
High levels of calcium in the blood may have come from your bones. Thus, patients may experience bone pain with hypercalcemia. Muscle weakness is not uncommon. Other patients have visible symptoms, including bowing shoulders, spinal column curvature or height loss, and patients with calcemia are at risk for pathological fractures due to the weakened state of their bones.
Psychological Symptoms
Patients with calcemia may experience a range of psychological symptoms with the increase of calcium in their blood. Among these symptoms, patients have reported experiencing apathy, depression and irritability.