What is some filling pasta like recipes? Someone with stage 5

Nutrition

Sadly I'm not going to probably get a nutritionist yet for a while. I finally got my biopsy recently so they're looking at that soon hopefully I'll find out more information a few days.

I'm really really hoping there is an infection of my kidney but unfortunately even then because of my rapid progression it might help bring back you know say 10 or 15% if that. But unfortunately we found blood work all the way from 2022 that shows that I even had lost 50% of my kidney function back then.

So I'm definitely in for the long run as I'll definitely have some scar tissue and won't be able to regenerate my kidney.

I'm right now hanging around 15%. So maybe I'll get lucky I'll get 20 or 25% out of it in total but highly doubtful any higher than that if I'm lucky to have inflammation say an allergy reaction or something to something I had a long time ago.

Unfortunately they don't want to start trying to medicate it before they know for sure.

Anyways the last couple weeks I've been eating renal diets basically I've been keeping mynumbers down as much as I can.

So sodium I'm doing under 1500 potassium I'm trying to do under 1500 I know it was recommended 2000 but I thought 1500 is probably still better phosphorus under 800 and protein under 50. Protein is a hard one because I'm actually a heavy person so I'm guessing if I need to start losing weight over time I'll need to eat less protein because of the breakdown of my fats and stuff I'm assuming if I eat less calories?

Now that's the other big issue is keeping my calorie count up somewhat because weirdly enough unless I are eating a lot of jelly beans or something silly each day I need a way to pad my calories because I don't get a lot out of the food itself especially when focusing on the four major limits above.

My fluid intakes are not an issue which I'm really thankful for right now. In fact I went down to 2500 ml a day and that actually brought my kidney function all the way down to like 10%. I was in the hospital for 8 days and they pumped me with IVs and lots of fluids and said yeah just keep drinking normal fluids as for some reason my body doesn't really retain it like other people do.

So until we get a nutritionist I just looking for some other meal ideas you know we've even been doing things like egg sandwiches with low sodium bread I'm going to eventually have to save up for something like a bread maker because I like bread and bread is a good one to have like sandwiches are easy to make but definitely have to start making low sodium bread because even the cheapest bread I can find has like insane amount of sodium in it.

There'll be a lot of things I have to save up and also like egg sandwiches yes take out the yolk you know I know all that kind of stuff I literally process everything through AI just to double check some useful this I guess with AI this day and age. So I look up everything on Walmart or whatever and then I double check it through the AI especially the ingredients because sometimes they have traps that are hidden in there where it's like oh this has no phosphorus or something but then there's like some sort of insane phosphorus ingredient that's included that they don't have to list the same way.

Anyways thank you for your time.

Posted Dec 1, 2025, 4:14 AM UTC

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