Well, I am totally surprised! I went to the doctor prepared for a lot of resistance about everything. He came in and asked about her reflux and I told him we tried the 15 mg once a day, didn’t work. Told him I tried 7.5 mg twice a day and that worked okay but she was miserable at night. So then I told him that I gave her a third dose in the evening and waited for him to say something bad about it. He turned around and said, you could actually give her more if she needs it! I about fell over. He then gave me 2 months of samples of 30 mg Prevacid and told me I could dose her the 7.5 three times a day or break it up further and give it to her 4 times a day. I was speachless. I told him about the Marci-Kids website and he said he didn’t know about that but he worked with the doctors at the University in Iowa City and that was where he got his information.
So then we talked about the shots and he was fine with spreading them out. She got her rotavirus which is oral and one shot today and we go back in a month, etc. She threw a nice little hissy fit in the office for him too just so he could see first hand how she could be, spit up on everything, and got the hiccups. She has kind of had a bad day today since she spit up the one dose of Prevacid and I never re-dosed her. So she didn’t have any Prevacid until noon.
Anyway, he told me he could call in a prescription or just keep giving me the samples of Prevacid and to let him know which dosing way worked best. Walked out of the office with my mouth hanging open..lol
I don’t know about the 4 times a day. He gave me 30 mg tablets and said I could break them into 4 pieces – not sure about that. Don’t really know how to go about that or if that would work well or if I should just stick with 7.5 mg 3 times a day. Either way, it turned out to be a good visit and he is very willing to work with me on getting her straightened out!
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Yippee!! I’m so glad to hear the good news!!.
And free samples, too!!
