This is my sixth pregnancy that has got beyond the chemical stage. With all my other pregnancies, I never had acid reflux, except for with DS when I had it occasionally towards the very very end.
This time out.. WTF!! I feel like I am dying. There is no let up in it and it's getting worse and worse. It started around 5 weeks, and I'm now 7+1 and it's worse every day. Constant bile in my stomach/upper abdomen.
It's relieved for maybe an hour with the behind-the-counter super-strength Gaviscon. Rantidine improves it maybe 50% but it's still horrible.. AND, can I still take regular Gaviscon if I've taken the Rantidine? For a while, simeticone (e.g. Wind-eze) seemed to sort it but that no longer works now either.
Two questions:
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Best way to tackle this. Am I already doing everything I can or is there more? I am not totally happy throwing billions of pills at it either.
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Does it go away when the other first trimester symptoms go away (like nausea etc) or does it stick around forever, or worse, get worse. I figure it'll probably come back in the third trimester anyway, but I could somewhat use a break!
I have NO idea what is different about this pregnancy than the others (I have children of both sexes) and why suddenly this intense pain has come into my life 24/7.. the relentless nausea is bad enough but this is finishing me off!
The only things I can think of that might be different from my other pregnancies are the cup of tea a day I drink (cutting that out now..), I'm using progesterone cream until 10-12 weeks, and finally I am taking maca powder with fybogel (easiest way to take it for me) because I was using the maca to TTC and I'd heard anecdotally that stopping it in the first trimester could cause issues. Oh, and I'm three years older.
Help!! 