i have terrible terrible pregnancy related heartburn

[misdee]

hiow much gaviscon can i actually take?

took 2x5ml spoons a couple of hours ago.

feel like guzzling the bottle down tbh.

take bets on another hairy baby later.

previous hairy ones in my profile.

don't know

sympathy

Sorry misdee, I can't remember - but I've been suffering from stress-related indigestion/heartburn recently and just wanted to sympathise with you. It's truly awful.

How many weeks are you now?

16weeks.

You can take 20ml at a time. I used to swig it from the bottle.

If its really bad, then Zantac (ranitidine) is safe to take and works much better.

Can you drink milk? I found this and sitting/sleeping! as upright as possible helped. Don't really know about Gaviscon sorry. Milk made mine a bit better. hated heartburn, you poor thing.

I never measured it by spoonful - swigged it straight from the bottle as required

Ask the doc to prescribe you Zantac if it gets really bad, I know they are a bit iffy prescribing it in pregnancy but one tiny tablet works wonders.

I have stopped using spoons and just swig the Gaviscon.

As much as you want, afaik. The worst it will do is give you wind .

What did you have for dinner? I found that certain foods triggered mine (orange juice, fresh bread and cream were particularly bad culprits) and once I avoided them the hearburn only happened occasionally.

Eating a plain oatcake also helped a bit as it sort of keeps everything down a bit.

I was told to avoid drinking during an attack too, as apparently liquid refluxes more easily than solids so makes it worse.

fantastic hairy babies on pics as well

I had horrendous heartburn and I didn't use a spoon, I drank from the bottle! (I had a very hairy baby too!)

I've had baldies so thats disproves the theory.

right am going to drink whats left in the bottle.

will buy another one in the morning.

i did have a horredous puking session earlier (sorry!) and i think that triggered tonights attack.

Don't take gaviscon .. take the other stuff.

The hard stuff, in tablets ... damn, but I can't remember the name of it!

Yes I can!!

RENNIE (or however it's spelt).

ooh i slept with a huge bottle of gaviscon next to my bed for the last 3 months of pg. it was terrible. just used to swig it from the bottle as it was so bad it woke me up several times a night!

no rennie in the house.

think dh has zantac.

but thats perscription only right?

rennie's helped me loads and i suffered terribly, drank milk on my 21st birthday!

misdee - magnum whites, cannot stress them enough as a serious soother for heartburn

You can buy zantac over the counter, but you are entitled to free prescriptions as you are pregnant.

Honestly, misdee, if Gaviscon isn't working too well, try Rennie.

It's like the old pep-up argument. Some people swear by Red Bull (doesn't work for me), and some people swear by Pro-Plus (does work for me).

Perhaps you're a chalky girl when it comes to pregnancy indigestion?

I have been guzzling Gaviscon. GP prescribed a big 500mL bottle.

But I'm probably going to have to move to Zantac in 3rd trimester here.

I had horrible heartburn with DD2 and she was bald as a cue ball.

Crikey! 16 weeks already!

I used to just swig it down too

I've just realised - DD has a school friend who has always looked 'familiar'. Looking at your profile, this girl is the spitting image of your DDs.

Rennie's stop working for me long ago.

I, too, wake up with it.

It sucks.

18 more weeks.

Congratulations Misdee, I didn't know

(re the pg, obviously, not the heartburn!)

I took Zantac from around 14 weeks with dd2 (have a hernia courtesy of pg #1) and later on, when even that wasn't heping, I took Omeprazole, with OB's blessing. Zantac is far, far better than Gaviscon and has been used a lot in pregnancy with no adverse effects.

Heartburn is awful, and if untreated can damage your oesophagus, so hope you can get whatever meds you need asap.

I got an ulcer in my oesophagus with DD1 from it, Eli .

I had a shite GP and crap midwife care and thought all I could take was Rennie's.

I also had to take some mega drugs in hospital for the acid reflux.