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My son has silent reflux and this sounds a lot like him. I breastfeed and in the beginning, when he was newborn, he would pull off and scream even though he was so hungry! He’s also a big boy – from what I understand, the breastmilk works as an antacid, so he wanted to eat all the time, though he only ate a little at a time, so there was a lot of feedings. I also had an overactive letdown, so I had to pump a little before I fed him each time. I also think he has MSPI and an allergy to eggs…it’s all SO much fun…note sarcasm 🙂

I feel for you, I really do. A thought – they say reflux peaks at 4 months, so maybe that’s why you had a little break and then it revved up again? At exactly 16 weeks my son started showing symptoms again, so we had to increase his dosage by quite a bit. Now he’s happy again.

Give your medicine some time to work. It takes a few weeks, at least, to see the full effects. My son is a TOTALLY changed man.

Good luck!

I think the MSPI definitely runs in families. I was “allergic” (my mom called me allergic, I think I was just intolerant) to milk until I was 8. My mom breastfed me, but didn’t make the connection until much later, and I was a “colicky” baby until 9 months. My daughter was MSPI, though not nearly as bad as my son is now. I could still eat butter and didn’t have to look for hidden ingredients with her (and she was over it by 1 year old), and now my diet is sooooooo limited. But it’s worth it. I would definitely give the elimination diet a try. It’s interesting because I now am so much more informed about what’s in all the foods we used to buy, and there’s a lot I’ll never buy again…processed food is terrible! Keeping it simple is so much healthier.

Anyway, good luck. At least you have some things to try! Let us know how it goes.

Andrea

We live in Canada and have been using CaraCream. We’ve had no problems with it going through customs, not sure what your system is like though. You can go to a compounding pharmacy and have them make it exactly like marci-kids suggests- BUT ask for a printout of ALL the ingredients that were in there. Sorry if I sound paranoid and insane. It’s just that our pharmacy told me that we had an unflavoured suspension made by marci-kids specs, and when I asked for a printout, I saw that they added all kinds of sweeteners and bitter-stops. Meanwhile, my daughter got worse b/c the meds didn’t work. The problem with properly compounded losec is that it tastes SO bitter and salty that you can vomit!!! Honestly terrible. Compounded prevacid tastes a bit better b/c the med isn’t as bitter. Good luck.