Doc pushing for Reglan

Update: It’s been 2 weeks on the Reglan and we haven’t seen any side effects NOR have we seen ANY benefits. Sooooo…I put in a call to the GI doc yesterday. Long story short, she wants to see her ASAP and squeezed us in for Wednesday. I assume this appointment is just to check her weight and recalculate her dosage (b/c the dose is based on her weight) and discuss how things have been going (or i guess i should say NOT going). i do know the Reglan is doing something b/c we have seen an increase in poopy diapers. But that’s not what I signed up for when we decided to give her this med. I want to see a decrease in what’s coming out the top end!!! not an increase in what’s coming out the bottom end!! if this is all this med does – NO THANK YOU!

Good luck tomorrow.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The GI checked her weight and she gained about 10oz in 2 weeks – which is great – remember she only gained 15oz the previous MONTH!! So here’s the plan: The doc recalculated her dosage of the Reglan to the max amount and we’re gonna give it another 3 weeks. We go back to the GI on the 16^th and if she is still not showing improvements by then (with the spitting up) the doc is gonna do a scope. GI says if that amount of Reglan doesn’t work then we’ve missed something. If we do the scope she’s gonna take some biopsies and, based on those, will make changes to Lil’s diet/medication. GI thinks we could be dealing with food allergies on top of the reflux but Lil is too young for normal food allergy testing. So the scope and biopsies should tell us something. If it does then she’ll be put on prescription formula (Neocate??).

So we’ve been on the higher Reglan dose for a week now and still no change. Maybe I’m expecting too much from the Reglan? She gained weight and she hasn’t thrown up an entire feeding since starting the meds. Maybe that’s all the Reglan does? But the spit up hasn’t changed. If she’s awake – something is coming out of her mouth. 30 minutes before her next feeding she’s still spitting up the previous bottle. I guess I need the GI to clarify what my expectations should be for this med. I know it’s not gonna stop the spit up completely but shouldn’t I see some improvement with that?

I’m not trilled at the idea of doing a scope. I’ve talked to some people in the medical field (not pediatrics or GI) and the general feedback is a scope would be very invasive on an infant this young. Did any of y’all scope your kids? And what age? And how did it go?

I don’t know much about this, but my mommy intuition would tell me that as long as she’s growing and gaining, and she’s not in any pain, that it would be best to stay the course and not subject her to any testing. My son spit up and puked up constantly (due to reflux and dge) but his doc felt that as long as he was keeping enough down to grow and gain normally that we didn’t need to do anything about it. That’s just my (and my doctor’s) opinion, but I thought I’d share it…..