Foods affect you?

[Ohio Buckeye]

Since you have been on dialysis have foods affected you differently.
For instance, my s-i-l gave me some chili that had kidney beans in it.
Everytime I saw a kidney bean I felt sick.  On Thanksgiving I could not hardly
look at the turkey.  Some of my former favorite foods I don't want to
have much anymore.  And sometimes I just don't want to be
around a lot of food, like a buffet. but it is not all the time.
almost like being pregnant in a way.  It is strange.

[Bette]

I feel the same way about dairy.  I used to love yogurt and milk, now the very idea of them turns my stomach.  This actually started about a month before I started dialysis.

[paris]

One of the transplant nurses compared my nausea and food dislikes to pregnancy - hormones, toxins, etc.  The thought of a big buffet makes me queasy. My range of food likes has grown very small and I use to enjoy almost everything.  It helps to know others have the same problem.

[goofynina]

Thank you for this thread,  it is good to know i am not the only one going through this, i was getting a little worried.  It is strange but there are days when i cant even eat a whole sandwich because it just makes me nauseous and i love sandwiches, not only sandwiches, it happens with everything i eat, i just eat a portion and that is it,  i was blaming it on being on PD but i guess it is just the whole disease in general huh?  oh well, at least i am not gaining weight, Lord only knows i dont need that 

[mallory]

Goofynina, it's funny you'd mention sandwiches.  I LOVE sandwiches.  I always have.  My sister thinks it's weird to love sandwiches, but I really do, I love sandwiches.  I'd choose a big, yummy hoagie sandwich and potato chips over most other meals.

But, all the sudden, some days I like sandwiches, and some days I can't even think about them.  It's worse since I started dialysis.  It's like my taste changes every day.  Some days I still want to go to Subway, some days you couldn't pay me to eat one of their sandwiches.  And it's all other food, too.  Some days I like some things, some days I like other things.

It's very strange the way kidney failure and dialysis affects your body.  There are so many changes you never even thought about or heard about.

[glitter]

my husband HATED chicken before dialysis-i only cooked it maybe twice a year,(and if he knew he would eat a doughnut)-now he begs for chicken like he needs a 'fix'--and I do cook it 5 nights a week,plus extra for the fridge....I wondered if there was something in chicken he really needed......

[goofynina]

my husband HATED chicken before dialysis-i only cooked it maybe twice a year,(and if he knew he would eat a doughnut)-now he begs for chicken like he needs a 'fix'--and I do cook it 5 nights a week,plus extra for the fridge....I wondered if there was something in chicken he really needed......

The only thing i know is they say that chicken is a good source of protein, maybe that is what he is craving, the protein?  just my 

Me loves me chicken too

[glitter]

actually ,I can't think of it right now,but the thing they measure in your labs that says wether he has good nourishment-his is low-they told me to increase his meat-but its weird how its chicken he is wanting and not beef or pork-although for awhile I WAS cooking pork-ribs every other day lol

[jbeany]

Since I've started hemo, I can't get enough broccoli and cauliflower.  Good thing they are cheap in the frozen section.  I've been eating some every day, sometimes twice a day.  I've always liked them, but not this much!  Makes me wonder what vitamins the hemo is stripping that my nephcaps aren't replacing fast enough.

my husband HATED chicken before dialysis-i only cooked it maybe twice a year,(and if he knew he would eat a doughnut)-now he begs for chicken like he needs a 'fix'--and I do cook it 5 nights a week,plus extra for the fridge....I wondered if there was something in chicken he really needed......

I was never that fond of chicken either, and I'm eating a lot of more of that, too.  With a side order of steamed broccoli and cauliflower, of course.

[Ohio Buckeye]

That's funny. Yesterday at the grocery I saw a bag of garlic cauliflour in the frozen section
and I got it and heat it up and ate it for supper.  It was so good.  I didnd't even have anything
with it. 

[glitter]

Broccolli has been 88 cents a lbs here in florida lately-my hubby craves both broccolli and cauliflower too,I wish cauliflower was on sale too..lol I know cooking it removes alot of the potassium,but he really just wants it raw-so he gets a measured dose of raw with his lunch-who would have ever thought I would be measuring the cauliflower like its medicine,and just giving him the box of little debbies.

[mallory]

who would have ever thought I would be measuring the cauliflower like its medicine,and just giving him the box of little debbies.

Glitter, Isn't that the truth!  This renal diet is so strange to me, I understand the goals, but the results don't seem logical to me, like measuring cauliflower but you can have the Little Debbies.  That just doesn't seem right!

[kitkatz]

I hate bell peppers for some strange reason.  The taste totally turns me off now and I used to eat them all the time.  I even cooked with them a lot.  Now icky poo.

[charee]

What are "little debbies" ??

[kitkatz]

Little Debbies are little chocolate with whipped cream in the middle snack cakes.

[charee]

Little Debbies are little chocolate with whipped cream in the middle snack cakes.

Thanks for that never heard of them here

[Ohio Buckeye]

Little Debbies are goooooooooooooood.
They compare to Hostess snack cakes and cookies if you know about those.

[John S.]

On eof the biggest side of effects of renagel other than making you dispeptic, is a loss of appetite. My appetite after 12 1/2 years of this is non-existant. Now, I'm like a marathon runner using food only as fuel. Sad.

john

[glitter]

little debbies come in about 15 different flavors-my husband likes the huneybuns-which is like a glazed doughnut.

[angela515]

I'm glad someone mentioned this, I thought it was just me. Sometimes I feel really hungry, but when I sit down and start eating, I get full after only eating a little bit of my food. My dad thinks i'm wasting a lot of food now but I tell him, i'm just not hungry sometimes, and most of the time I get nauses during my meal and just don't want anymore for fear of throwing it up. So it's kind of like for me it's better to eat a lot of little meals or snacks throughout the day instead of 3 big meals.

[froggy]

A lot of days I only eat one meal and that can be a challenge. Other days my appetite is just fine. The biggest change I noticed is I like sweets now and I never have before

[Zach]

On eof the biggest side of effects of renagel other than making you dispeptic, is a loss of appetite. My appetite after 12 1/2 years of this is non-existant. Now, I'm like a marathon runner using food only as fuel. Sad.

john

Have you tried any of the protein drinks, like Designer Whey?

[brenda]

What the heck is "Designer Whey" ? There ain't no "way" anything with the word "whey" in it can be good.

[shay_pcb]

My problems with food is that I want what I'm not supposed to have and don't want what I am supposed to have. And I don't eat as much as I did, but I guess that's bc I absorb calories from my fluid.

[Chicken Little]

My doctor warned me about loss of appetite, but it's more than that.  Nothing tastes the same or even good.  When I do eat, I usually get sick too. 

We drove by the It's It ice cream factory the other day and had to pull over because the smell the baking cookies made me barf.    I was hoping it would get a little better when I start PD.