Off of reglan and pepcid

[Anonymous]

Of course I go and say yesterday that he is not a spitter or vomited too often
but has been in the last few days, once a day at least. Like I said before,
mom and dad like to play “rough” putting him up over their heads,
holding him upside down..he loves it and laughs but I try to discourage it, especially right after he eats.

My son said Elijah vomited an hour after eating last night while just sitting there.

I am wondering if this is because he has not been taking the pepcid while the Prilosec suspension starts to work?

But then again, pepcid doesn’t have much to do with vomiting does it?

Mom also stopped giving him the reglan because he really resists taking
it and as far as we know, he does not have delayed gastric emptying.

Could this be causing the vomiting, that he went off of the reglan suddenly?

Maybe it needs to be titrated down until he is off it?

I am also tempted to tell DIL to give him the pepcid for a week or so
while the Prilosec kicks in, even though the pedi gi said no.

We also described to her what seems to be esophageal spasms that I can
feel when I am cuddling him to sleep and mom has seen it while he was
in his crib. She just dismissed it.

I have had esophogeal spasms and had a narrowing of my LES which
allowed food and meds to get stuck in it. Boy that was bad and ended up
spending 5 days in the hospital and it wasn’t until day 3 that I
actually got someone to listen to me that it was my LES..I had to yell”
What ever happened to listening to the patient?” After I kept being told
by every Dr that it was my fibromyalgia when gall bladder tests came
back negative.

My point is, I KNOW how uncomfortable to extreme pain I was in and hate to think his spasms are this painful.

He hasn’t had them in a while, since the pepcid.

Could those spasms be a sign of Sandifers?

Thanks,

Elijah’s Grammy2006-4-26 8:49:11

[Anonymous]

I am not an expert but I know that you are supposed to ween off of Reglan.

[Anonymous]

susan—did they do a scope and dilate your esophagus? i seem to have the same problem you do with food getting stuck. i already have 2 kids on prevacid, so i really can’t afford meds for myself. i need to see a gi, but keep putting it off.

[Anonymous]

Christine, yes they did a scope and dilated. I closed my eyes and a few
seconds later it was over. At least it felt like a few seconds.

A few weeks ago though, I was awake for the whole procedure plus a colonoscopy!

I think I had too much adrenaline going to fall asleep this time. Still
wasn’t too bad, I guess I was pretty drowsey, just not “out.”

I had an accupuncturist tell me to drink warm water in the morning and
before bed. Just heat a cup of water up in the microwave, as warm as
you would drink coffee. It’s not bad at all, helps get peristalsis
moving.

But I found it helped to drink warm water when the LES spasms happened after I took meds or ate.

I only realized this just worked before the spasms ended. But hopefully it help you stay out of that horrible nagging pain.

[Anonymous]

Katie, thank you for the info on reglan. I should know this and should
have looked it up. But I did not know his mom took him off the reglan
until he had been off of it for ??? I am not sure when she did it.

All of a sudden, she started to give it to him a day or so ago, and he seems a little better.

Mom has a hard time giving him meds. He resists some of them, and she is a little anxious about it.

Even though I am a RN, I would never tell Elijah’s mom to just take him
off of a med without consulting her the pedi. (although pedi doesn’t
seem to be too up on GERD at all.)

For example, Elijah had to go to the ER for us to learn he could take
Maalox or is it Mylanta? (it’s generic and I’m feeling geriatric at the
moment:) and we were seeing her once a week for a while.

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