Last night i had my first terrible case of heartburn... i thought maybe i ate too much, but this afternoon i got it again, and i haven't even had dinner yet!
Has anyone got any remedies for taking care of heartburn,....?
Hey there,
I have suffered from heartburn/reflux since week 7 so I'm pretty much an expert.
Don't lie down after eating, huge no no!
Milk, icecream & chewies are supposed to help with the acid.
I have asked my specialist who says mylanta is fine to take & you can't really take too much so have as much as you need.
Spicy foods, cool drinks also make things worse.
Hopefully some of these things help you.
Jo - 27 (treated endo)
Dh - 34
Second chlomid / IUI March 2007 -
I got it dreadfully at the end of my pg, but it mostly affected me in the evenings. I found chewing on a rennie (or two if it was baaaad) before brushing my teeth worked for me. Also, it turned me off really flavoursome food unfortunately... I found bland stuff was less likely to give me heartburn. HTH and all the best for your pregnancy!
Hi - milk helped for me, mylanta and also zantac which was ok for me to take in the 3rd trimester but just check with your pharmacist re first and second trimesters. Avoid acidic food and lying down after eating. Also, not eating anything for longer periods (being greater than a couple of hours!) also caused me to get severe heartburn. So eating helped too. Goodluck, i'm afraid to say it will probably get worse before it gets better - nasty stuff!
I understand - I get it sometimes after eating and sometimes when I'm really hungry! Best things for me are:
*Milk drink
* chewable rennie
*building up your pillows in bed so gravity keeps the digestive acids down (this is the best)
Hope that some of these suggestions help.
Last night about an hr after dinner i had a glass of milk...which made it better but not go away! Then about an hr after that i snuggled into bed and squished my pillow up under my head (two pillows gives me bad neck/head ache) and guess what... gone! i slept beautifully!
I am 18 wks pg and have suffered only a little with hb over the last couple of wks (thankfully). My cousin is a midwife and she said that apple juice, either full strength or watered down, can help. I haven't tried it as it has mostly occured when I go to bed and I figure that I will fall asleep faster than it takes for me to get out of bed and go to the kitchen!! It's also too cozy to get out of bed!! Hope that this helps. Nicole
I suffered terrible last time and this time too so I feel for you!
The pillow thing is great and I also found that the lollies called Fruity Tingles work a treat like antacids but taste yummy and the worst thing in them is sugar I guess.....
I found that the kind of food I ate made no difference, I could have Thai and not get it and then bland veges and get it BAD!
Mine did not stop until DD was born so hang in there.
I used LOTS of rennie and mylanta. Milk also worked well if there was no antacids handy. I had to stay up after eating for about an hour before going to bed otherwise the heartburn would be SOOOO bad.
Bread seemed to make me have bad heartburn. Chocolate and also Nutella was also guilty of giving me bad bad heartburn - pity too because I LOVE eating those two things.
thanks again girls, my OB had suggested Mylanta and gaviscon.. but i'm not sure i want to take them... yesterday i felt like it was coming back, so i had a milo ice-cream yummo and it just stopped instantly! So i think i'll see how i go with the home remedies.. i'll try the fruit tingles too! and if it gets worse or i can't control it.. i'll try an antacid!
What i eat doesn't effect me either... the night i got it real bad, all i ate was rice, salad and potatoes! but if i eat something spicy.. i don't get it...*shrug* i think it may have something to do with the amount of dairy that i eat/drink in the day that day i hadn't had much except what i put on my cereal..usually i have at least 2 glasses + cheese
I had the worst bout of hb a couple of weeks ago and thought that my chest had a knife sticking into it. Had one chewable zantac and 2 hours later it went away. I am 22 weeks pg with twins and it was the first hb i have ever had in my life. I hope that it never happens again!! I understand the desperation of women trying to find a solution for this painful ailment. My greek mother and her friends say that hair is growing on the babies heads and that is what causes it. Funny wives tales. Its even funnier as dh and i are not hairy people at all!! Greeks!!
hey Gina! I hear you on the Greek thing! as you could probably tell from my name! LOL that's what i've heard around the traps too! hahaha but i don't believe it... more like uterus is squishing my stomach! LOL
i used to get it once in a blue moon anyway when i used to have a lot of lemon and salt on something but i'm off lemon now... weird ha! LOL and i know it's not food now...! ohh well
Can you feel your baby moving yet? I started to in the last couple of weeks feel my twin boys!! Last night my dh put his ear to my tum tum and got whacked by one or both of them - right on his ear!! We were in stitches for ages. I hope you get a cool surprise like it did. I had to share with someone. Hope you dont mind listening to my story last night.
Are you going to find out the sex of your little one? These are our first bubs too. Its very exciting!
PS -Milk works for heartburn. Its the only thing that works properly so far without taking pharmacuticals.
i think i feel the butterfly movement... but it's hard to tell yet... hoping that bubs will give me a nice surprise soon and i'll be able to feel the kicking before 20 weeks! i'm hanging out! Yeah we will be finding out what we are having! there's no way i can wait until term to know! hahaha
I've been trying the milk thing too! so far so good!
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like antacids but taste yummy and the worst thing in them is sugar I guess.....
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