Dear Diary: I Have Found A Way Not To Get The Bitter Aftertaste Caused By My Parathyroid Medicine

I had been suffering from the aftereffects of my Parathyroid medicine for more than a year now and it took a toll in my life, my well-being. With my desire to rid myself of pain and at least stop the progression of my Leontiasis, a rare bone disorder that developed gradually until it changed my appearance and gave me a set of disabilities that further made my life unbearable and so hard I endured taking my medicine.

Had it not been for my normal hemoglobin levels I wouldn't been able to tolerate the nauseating effects of Cinacalcet. It smells like gasoline and I am actually afraid of busting my liver with it considering that I have to take it twice a day everyday.

My doctor wants me to take it thrice a day but I didn't do that, I can't afford to do so because of the forbidding price of that medicine that is so rare as well that I was only the one that is buying it here in our province.

I could not take it three times a day because it has an appetite-disturbing effect that it drains away my appetite down the drain. That is why I did some shopping online some foods that can help me with my nutrition because that medicine had made my appetite to zero.

But I seem to find a way now in avoiding the bitter, or metallic aftertaste that it gives me when I take it with food. My way of taking it now is to just eat while sitting and taking it in with meals and I should not lie down or I will get that nasty aftertaste that I was always complaining about.

It seems to work, so after eating I would take some cereals and continue sitting for maybe an hour before lying down on my bed since I cannot sit up for so very long. That is what I am doing now and I am glad with my heart that at least one of my miseries is solved now.