I learned recently that a single large chicken egg contains 95 mg of Phosphorus which is a lot especially if you eat two of those. It will nearly rival the phosphorus content of a half piece chicken breast.
But I cannot eat 1/2 chicken breast meat in one sitting because a quarter of it is enough for me for one meal with rice. Either I get one drumstick, the thigh part without the drumstick. Essentially one piece chicken is enough for me.
One reason is that I can never really eat too much because of my poor appetite issues, it is just only now that I temporarily halted my Cinacalcet because it makes me feel sick to my stomach. The other reason is that the more I eat the more I should take Renvela my phosphate binder so that my phosphorus levels would not get so high.
That is why I am quite strict to my diet to the point that I am really paranoid into what I put into my mouth because mot of the foods out there even frozen fish has phosphate additives to maintain moisture, makes the product juicy like in hotdogs, fast foods, and maintain other qualities of the product.
So I never am really fond of eating packaged and processed food because even jams are tinged with additives as well to my dismay as I have thought that they only have sugar and those fruits in the case of strawberries, etc.
This morning I ate a piece of egg plus that mayonnaise sandwich that my mother had prepared for me prior to our departure for my dialysis. So I took one tablet of Renvela so that I won't absorb the phosphorus or at least most of it. Even my energy drink has phosphorus which is which I am just taking it now at dialysis.
Then after we got back home my mother fried a couple of pieces of chicken and gave them to me. Again I just ate the drumstick and afterwards I took again one tablet of Renvela phosphate binder which has been my SOP whenever I would eat.
So I already had used up my today's allowance of Renvela which is unfortunate because it makes me feel deprived of food. I am actually a bit hungry now because instead of eating my regular meal of viand and rice I just asked my mother to give me two pieces of toast plus a thinned-out coffee so that my belly would have some fill and I would not get shaky with hunger.
I just wished that I could have more funds so that I can take two tablets or maybe I could eat more often with a tablet or two of Renvela for each meal so that I could enjoy food without the guilt feel that I always get whenever I would eat.
E-codes of the most commonly used phosphate additives
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If you read teh food labels you can see that some of the ingredients are listed as "E-codes for a type of phosphates a particular food product has.
Well it is not good to eat much food anyway but in my case my body is so emaciated that it longs for nutrition and or calories. But I just have to still control the things I would put into my mouth so that my Parathyroid issue would not exacerbate. A high elevation of phosphorus is what I am trying to manage because it was the root of my bone problems.
So I just pray God to heal my Parathyroid without even any medical intervention surgically because I am too tired of taking expensive medicines that is drying up my funds fast and making the possibility of me getting my dream surgeries get trapped in Limbo. Please pray for me is what I asked for the people who cares, may God bless you all.