Constant heartburn and 10 days to go. What can I eat/ do apart from gaviscon???

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I had it bad last time but only in evenings. Now it's all day. :(
I hate bloody gaviscon but am necking it straight from the bottle!
What do you suggest? I have 10 days till elcs to put up with it.

I hated the liquid stuff, so took the double action tablets, spent a fortune on them though

have you tried herbal teas? I can't recommend one for heartburn but was suffering from indigestion that gaviscon wasn't helping at all and the nice man in the health food shop recommended an after dinner tea that turned out to be a miracle cure for me.

Cold milk, hot water, chewable rennies are more bearable than gaviscon - about £3 for 3 packs.
Watermelon helps me.
Lucky you only having 10 days to go...I've had heartburn from very early on and still have 7 weeks to go, argh!

soda water. mallox from the doctor. extra strong mints. peppermint tea.

avoid citrus fruits and fruit juice.

ranitadine/zantac or omeprazole.

Peppermint tea no good
Milk no good
Rennes no good.

Mw suggested ranitidine but by time I get to speakto a de, get them to write a prescription etc it'll be nearly d day.

I might try chocolate again! :)

I agree about trying a different type of gaviscon. The tablets didn't work for me at all, and I;m not convinced about the bottle I now have... but the one dose liquid things really helped. I guess its not all quite the same formula.

I'm on rantitidine. It def helps although you do have to take it regularly. Why would you have to wait so long for a Dr?

oh, and cut out anything that makes it worse:
chocolate, cola, spicy food, tomatoes (!), cheese, orange juice.

Basically only eat bland stuff.

I have ended up going to the hospital twice now in the middle of the night for problems related to digestion, in serious pain the first time, so do sympathise. At least you have not got long to go.

I take ranitidine, was magic to start with (started at 32 weeks) but with only 3 days to go heartburn has made a reappearance when lying down!

I find very cold custard helps. You can get little pots from the supermarket.

Oh our gp surgery is crap vj32. No chance today. Wouk have to be lucky to get appointment tomorrow in phonecall lottery system or wait for gp to call me after surgery hours. Then wait for prescription if you go via phonecall system.
May send dh out to get different gaviscon later.