I am just so fecking SICK of having heartburn

[ButIForgetMyself]

I can't eat ANYTHING. I can't even drink a glass of water. I can't take my pregnancy supplement, and you can just forget about bread.

I cannot get them to prescribe me Peptac fast enough. They put my on my repeat prescriptions to renew every two weeks, and I can sometimes trick them into doing every three or four days or so, but it still takes two working days to go through. They bumped me up on one occasion to Gaviscon Advance, but when I put my repeat prescription back in, they'd put me back down onto Peptac again! I am going through practically a bottle a day, and that's by rationing myself!

I'm supplementing by paying nearly £10 every two days for a big bottle of Gaviscon.

Baby is due tomorrow but showing no signs of appearing.

Please tell me as soon as Baby arrives the heartburn will go? I'm in tears here, I don't feel like eating ANYTHING.

"They put down on my repeat prescription slip" - sorry. Pregnancy has also made me illiterate.

Tell them that what they have prescribed isn't working - if need be go and see a different doctor. I suffer from chronic severe heartburn and I have taken Omeprazole throughout my pregnancy which is thought to be safe. My doctor told me (to reassure me) that it is prescribed widely to women in pg when antacids don't work (because they don't for me, they just dilute the acid and make me feel sick). I think that you can also take rinitidine, which isn't anywhere near as good. Omeprazole would put you back to normal, I promise.

Is your Oesophagus actually inflamed (ie do you have stinging pain even when noticable acid) and does your throat feel funny at all?

Me Too on Omeprazole and ranitidine throughout my pregnancy, although I have a hiatus hernia and have horrendous heartburn in non pregnancy state too

Mucho sympathy

Ring docs and ask for the above or buy them from the pharmacist at a smaller dose

My throat doesn't feel funny, so not as severe as some poor women I've been reading about. Just really, really acidic, in the night I get that prickly feeling like I'm actually going to throw up.

MW last time said "Well, do you take it as prescribed after every meal or do you just glug it back as and when you feel like it?" - errrrrrmm, both. I take it after every meal but then half an hour later have to take more. Then it's every time I shift position in the night. Get up, go to loo, back to bed, lie down, 10 minutes later it's antacid time. The taste makes me gip now every single time as well.

Seeing MW tomorrow, will insist on changing meds.

Lilymolly, I suffer in non-pregnancy too, but mostly with wheat based stuff like bread, toast and pastry and oaty stuff, never with something as innocuous as a glass fecking water/ tea/ orange squash.

So is Omeprazole available over the counter? Didn't know that.

Glass OF fecking water.

I don't think you can get omeprazole otc but you can get rinitidine. The MW can't give you anything that will work - you need to go and see a doctor. The MW will just tell you that gaviscon is it, which isn't true If you can't eat then that sounds pretty bad to me and there are lots of different symptoms, I was just suggesting a couple of symptoms that would be definite evidence to present . The thing is with heartburn is it is something they definitely CAN do something about - as me and lilymolly are testimony to.

Get a presciption for Ranatidine (generic Zantac) only thing that worked for me

I have actually shoved it in the trolley in Tesco's before

Natural yogurt will ease the pain and neatralise the acid - it worked for me although I must have consumed more whilst pregnant with DS than cumatively in the rest of my life.