30mg Prevacid Users

We use 30mg in two doses. I’m thinking of trying to split it and add a morning dose. She’s never been interested in eating breakfast, and I’ve always assumed it was lack of appetite. It seems that many refluxers don’t want to eat breakfast which has made me wonder if it’s actually breakthrough acid. Her last dose is at 8 pm, and her other dose is at 1. She takes it in CaraCream.

Are you using the solutabs? Do you manage to wait the 30 minutes?

I give Myles 10 mg three times daily. 7am, 2:30 or 3pm, and 7:pm. For the morning dose I sneak into his room before he’s fully awake and give it to him then give him his nuk and pat him a little and he almost always goes back to sleep. If not, I pick him up and just slowly dress him, play with him a little and the 30 minutes goes by quickly enough. He is very hungry in the morning, but so far I haven’t had any problems getting him to wait the 30 minutes.

I’ve always done three doses, so I can’t really say for sure if it’s better than two, except that three doses is what marci-kids recommends, so it must be better.

Caracream cannot be used with solutabs, and I wouldn’t trust the compounded prevacid. The empty stomach/30 minute thing is very frustrating, but there’s no way around it that I know of except to switch to Zegerid, which I have seriously considered doing many times. Now that Myles is getting older and is on a pretty regular schedule it’s not as difficult to time his meds, so I will just stay with what’s working.

I give one dose mid morning at around 11ish….(um or when I remember, Aidan is usually pretty good in the morning and it’s crazy around here schedule wise in the summer) and I TRY to give the second around 5 before dinner…His med schedule isn’t set in stone, as long as he gets all 30 mg in him a day, and is acting happy I don’t really worry about when/how the doses are given/divided up. I will say I tried splitting it into 3, and for some reason it works beter for him in 2 doses. (solutabs)Aidansmom792006-6-19 15:42:0