Non-calcium binders

[sico]

Fosrenal absorbs flavors easily.  Stick your favorite hard candy in the bottle and leave it there.  You'll taste that instead of so much chalk.  I used to tuck one into a bag of dried cherries and chocolate chips to take to D, and it even absorbed some of those flavors.

Thanks for the tip. Might try that.

sico have you been taken off the Renagel?

btw aranesp 20mcg is a very low dose. the 50's and higher cost into the thousands full cost. yikes!

Yeah Richard, off the renagel. Had just got a fresh bottle too (unopened). It did bring my calcium into line but the phosphate has continued to rise.

I only have the aranesp every fortnight now. On HD it was 40mcg a week, effectively 4 x the dose.
Read on here somewhere if you inject it subcutaneously you don't need as much.
When i was doing HD at Kew there was a patient there that had aranesp every HD session.

[RichardMEL]

yep every two weeks for me too (50's). last Hemoglobin was 117 so all good

Sorry you got taken off the Renagel so quickly. Maybe you can take one every so often with your meals to use what you've got (ask your doc, I don't think it would be a problem). I did that with alu-tabs I had left over and my labs were awesome

[sullidog]

If I take more then 1 renagel with my meals I get an upset stomach, anyone know why? I have fosrenal as well but never had to take it.
Troy

[RichardMEL]

Interesting. I'm up to 3 renagel 800's with meals and don't have any problems. Sorry you are