This particular age is notorious for babies wanting more milk - to the extent that even those of us who usually have oversupply problems have ended up on the phone to the ABA asking why bub is still hungry.
Please give things a chance to work - the losec, the motilium, and bub a few more weeks to get through this patch. And the feed-a-rama suggestion is a good one. Also - make sure you have the slowest possible flow teat (i.e. newborn, although she's not) for any formula or expressed milk feeds, so she doesn't get "lazy".
Also - rather than formula topping up, have you tried giving bub 3 or 4 boobs per feed - sometimes just coming off the boob and back on again is enough to remind her that when things slow down she should suck!
Then assess where you are and where you want to be going, see the LC again, and make your decision.
It doesn't feel like it at the moment, but you are doing a great job!
Have you tried sleeping bub on a little bit of a slope - putting a wedge under her mattress or even sleeping her in a baby-chair or (at least during the day) in a sling?? Sometimes being a bit more upright helps the reflux too.
If you have fallen in to the trap of using tea/coffee/coke to deal with sleep deprivation then you may need to cut back - because you are probably also giving bub a caffeine hit, which is less than helpful.
Other things that may (or may not) help cranky babies:
a bath (at one stage we were bathing bub at midnight, since that was one of his grumpiest periods and the bath seemed to relax him)
going outside (it's much easier on your brain to be going for a walk with a grumpy baby than to be cooped up inside with one)
movement
being rocked (an office chair and a sling helps make this easier on the arms)
music (whatever you like - she might as well get used to it)
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