Amy

I agree totally as you know, I do understand that it is hard for people to get that there can be such varying degrees of reflux, but because your child needs medication isn't a failure, it is actually very hard to get a doctor to beleive you enough to get these medications. I have fought long and hard on the decision to mediacate Parker but at the end of the day it is something that needs to be done.

It shouldn't be something you are worried to tell someone about either so that you are judged. The bad thing is that on medicine a lot of the time your child seems perfectly normal and the most frustrating thing is having people say that there is nothing wrong cause he seems fine.

Like you know we weaned Parker in Jan and we put him back on it in May because the symptoms were just getting worse and worse. Anyway I was doing the home videos of Parker the other day and there was about 10 minutes of me trying to get him to take the losec tablet, he did really well for about 3 days and then nothing, so I put him in his cot and he was whining and saying mummy I wan't to come out, and I was saying no not until you have your medicine.

But in that time he refluxed, gagged and coughed about 30 times, he was gurgly and irritable and to look at him now so totally different now he is back on the medicine, both Dan and I had tears in our eyes thinking that he had got that bad and because it was a slow progression we hadn't seen it.

Losec saved my sons life, that is not a statement I make for fun, but it is the truth, without it, he would be so very, very sick.

Parker is three tomorrow, I have been told by his GI that he will not grow out of reflux if he has it past three, it is a very slim chance, I am having difficulty with this, as I was when he was 1 and 2, since I think for the rest of our lives I am goign to have to be justifying our decisions to medicate him Hopefully he won't need to always be on such a high dose, but we will do what we have to do to get it done.

Thanks Amy