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The Enlargement Of My Facial Bone Had Receded Down A Bit And I Can Close My Mouth Now
It was this day Oct 9th was my third year anniversary in taking Cinacalcet, a drug that I am using to treat my Hyperparathyroidism. The mechanism of this drug is to fool the parathyroid that I already had lots of calcium in my blood and that it needed not to let out its hormones to tell to my bone to leach out Calcium from them.
The effect was gradual and I felt some shedding of pain until the lingering pain in my back and neck had gotten a considerable relief.
But taking this medicine has a awful side-effect on me, it wipes away my appetite for eating foods. It doesn't allow me to enjoy foods anymore and everytime I would eat it feels like a chore and I just have to eat anyway because my body needs nutrition.
The side-effect of this drug is really causing me much grief and misery, I always feel nauseated and taking appetite stimulants doesn't do much of a good thing, basically they do not work so I gave up on them and just accept the fact that I could not enjoy the taste of foods anymore.
The only time that I could eat better was after dialysis and after eating and taking Cinacalcet again my appetite goes into the drain again. That is why I like a frequent dialysis sessions but sometimes my appetite doesn't come back after dialysis, so it is just what happens when I eat at dialysis time, I could not eat after the session again.
But I have to take this medicine anyway because my body pain will come back and get worse and I will be in square one again if I stop. Right now I am continuing to take it even with just one tablet per day plus taking phosphate binder in order for me not to cause my parathyroid to get hyperactive.
I also am in a very strict diet and not eating forbidden foods high in phosphorus like most of the foods that we can buy in the market which have lots of phosphate additives to preserve the product's specific qualities like retaining moisture, etc.
I am also taking Calcium tablets and vitamin D to aid about my bone's healing process. I am improving a bit and praying that soon I will be totally pain-free even though I could not get the desire to eat and enjoy eating foods again.