Hoping the Doc is on my side

[Anonymous]

Well my Doc finally got back with me. He has been out of town, which makes me feel better vs him just ignoring me. From his return email, I think he assumed we had already increased the dose and just wanted to make sure that we were giving the 7.5mg twice a day vs giving him all 15mg at once…. We were planning on doing that today. We had been giving the prevacid at night instead of in the morning so today he got it in the morning and we will give it again before his bedtime feeding. My hubby had to spend some alone time with Coop last night while I was out and he finally saw what I had been telling him all week, so he was all for increasing the dose without the doc saying okay, but now we have the docs blessing as well… wish us luck, I hope this works and we don’t have to give him more than 15mg/day.

[Anonymous]

Beth- So glad the doc got back to you – and he was out of town – not ignoring! I hope the 7.5 x/2 works good for Cooper. I would think you will notice a diff within a few days. I sure hope so!!!!

[Anonymous]

Good luck. I hope the increase helps! And good news about having dh on board.

[Anonymous]

Goodluck.

[Anonymous]

Good luck. Hope it helps.

[Anonymous]

So it has been alittle over 2 weeks since we upped Coopers dose to 7.5mg 2x/day. Well he is better, still not great, I have been having to give Mylanta some at night to calm him back to sleep. So I emailed our Ped GI again to ask if we could give it 3x/day since that is what marci-kids says. He initially wrote back and said yes and then wrote back to say he was wrong he thought we were on Axid or Zantac and that Prevacid shouldn’t be given more than 2x/day. He did however say that we could try 15mg 2x/day for a week and see if there is any change. I don’t really want to go that high, what do you all think about doing 7.5mg in the morning and the 15mg at night? I was so happy with the first email and then got really upset (tears) when I read the second email.

[Anonymous]

I’d take the 30 mgs and thank my lucky stars!!! Even if you want to try less, definitely take 30mgs so if 22.5 is still not enough you don’t have to call again and ask for more.

10 mgs three times per day was the miracle cure for my little guy, and it has been for a lot of babies here, so I think it would be good for you to have that option.

[Anonymous]

i would def. take the 30 mg’s. there are kids on much higher doses than this. marci-kids.com recommended 30 mg a day of zegerid for my son…however he required 60 mg a day and was on that dose for 2 months.

ftr, mylanta gives my son major diarhea. in fact, he got the runs the other day when i gave him 2ML.

[Anonymous]

TAKE THE 30!!! At least you’ll have it on hand in case…or just give the 7.5 3x/day (which is 22.5mg/day total) and hold on to the remaining 1/2 solutab for a “rainy day”–like if your lo spits up a dose or your refills run out and you’re stuck waiting for the doc to call in for a prior auth–we’ve had to do that here several times–and tell the doc you’re giving 7.5 in am and 15 in pm. You have to do what you think is going to help your little one. Our doc originally ok’d us to try 7.5 every 8 hours (22.5mg/day), and if that didn’t work then 7.5 every 6 hours (30mg/day) which would mean waking her up in the middle of the night, so I immediatley went for the 10mg 3/day (I’d already been giving 22.5mg/day kind of on my own without full improvement). When we went back for the follow-up, I just told him that we dosed it that way so we wouldn’t have to wake her up at night, and he just said “ok”!

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