What are the Symptoms?

Common symptoms include:

• Extreme tiredness, fatigue and weakness
• Muscle cramps (tetany), and hand cramps called carpopedal spasm, in which your hands can cramp up in the shape of a claw.
• Salt cravings for salty foods like crisps, pickles, olives, and chips.
• Chronic dermatitis (itchy skin and eczema)
• Excessive thirst- needing to drink lots
• Excessive urination- needing to pee lots
• Heart palpations- feeling your heart beating fast in your chest.
• Gastrointestinal slowing- (Ileus), constipation.
• Numbness and tingling in your hands, arms and legs or feet.
• Paralysis and muscle twitching.
• Joint pain sometimes caused by Chondrocalcinosis, which is when calcium crystals build up in the cartilage in your joints.