Anyone else awake with heartburn?

[biggest]

Just drained the last of my Gaviscon, DH has banished me to the living room for fidgeting and trying to toss and turn with SPD. Only 26 weeks, how on earth will I survive another her 14 weeks of this?
Just wanted to share!

[sabinar]

Happily I'm now up with a newborn rather than heartburn, but I could have written your post up until recently. Something I tried in my pregnancy which was surprisingly helpful for heartburn was accupuncture. Might be worth looking into? It saved
my sanity.

[MrsGubbins]

not up with heartburn but I have to get up and have a snack in the middle of the night!! wake up feeling nauseous and only thing that settles it is a sneaky midnight snack.. am only 9 weeks!

[tinylion]

Try Zantac (ranitidine) - you can get it over the counter, or prescription. I found Gaviscon USELESS!

Or, try and ask the dr for Omeprazole - that sorts it out. For a few hours at least.

Mine is terrible. I'm 37 weeks, and only 4 foot 11 and my huge baby is pushing my stomach up my throat! I find taking Zantac good (2 tablets), and then avoiding sugar, milk, citrus like the plague. Keep eating though, otherwise you the heartburn comes back when you're hungry.

Eat biscuits in the middle of the night. I can honestly say throughout the whole of this pregnancy I have not had a settled stomach, since August!! Roll on labour...

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

I have to keep getting up in the middle of the night to drink milk

[matilda73]

I also couldn't survive without Zantac having had awful heartburn since week 21. Couldn't eat or drink anything at all even water without awful pain, and it got so bad it actually hurt to swallow. Zantac has made all the difference but I still have to avoid coffee, tea, and anything acidic, oily or spicy like the plague. Sleeping with 2-3 pillows helps at night as does avoiding any food or fluid after about 8, I also make sure the last thing I have is milky like yogurt or rice pudding ( very strange craving...)
Don't keep suffering, heartburn is really horrid...

[SecretSlattern]

I always seem to wake up with heartburn around 2am and it lasts for a couple of hours. I finished off the normal bottle of gaviscon (which surprisingly this time has been doing the trick) and picked up a bottle of the cool stuff by mistake. It is totally minging so have resorted to suffering, rather than drink that stuff until I can get out and replace the usual one.

[oopsandbabycoconut]

My GP won't prescribe any tablets but has prescribed Gaviscon Advance which seems to work much better. It is VERY thick though I find it takes about a minute to pour out my 20mls! So I have been swigging out the bottle. Gaviscon cool does not work! I have also found that MAgnum White are very very good and if I eat one at night I don't wake up as early with the heartburn.

[nah1974]

Gaviscon works for me too but it is revolting! The surprising thing that I have found really helpful is reflexology; gave me about 3 days of relief from heartburn. Might be worth a try

[biggest]

I like the sound of a bit of reflexology pampering - was it a one off session or did you need more?
I was thinking of asking GP for zantac prescription, safe in pg I assume?
Got about 4 hours sleep in the end, yawn!

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

oopsandbabycoconut I like the sound of that! Might have to send DP out to buy me some for medicinal reasons

[HelenaCC]

Ive got the same problem. Heartburn was making me physically sick as well as nauseaous. Im 22 weeks and just got prescription of Omeprazole. Ive been on it before but not when pregnant. It stops the acid being produced and its listed as safe during pregnancy. Renetidine will do the same but is apparently listed as to be used durting pregnancy "only if unavoidable" or something like that. So far I seem to be doing better. Is worth a try.