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October 6, 2007 at 7:21 pm #43847

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We’ve seen two GI practices in our area and they both do not want to up our dose of prevacid. I have contacted Dr. Philips from marci kids and he indeed confirmed that we are definitely underdosed. I am at my wits end…no one seems to listen to us that this is reflux. We are currently trying hypoallergenic formulas but it’s not going well. My twins are 6 months old and they “know” how disgusting these formulas taste. They won’t take it mixed or straight up. So we can’t test for milk intolerance.

How did you convince your docs to prescribe a higher dose? Should I up them to 22.5 mg per day (from 15 mg) myself?

TIA.

Marie

October 6, 2007 at 7:26 pm #43850

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YES!!!!!! Just up it and up it yourself until you find a comfort zone then go to a family doc to get the script written. My dd is 19 lbs even and is on 45 mg of prevacid, 15 three times a day, maybe it is a bit of an overdosage but she eats comfortably!!!!!! no more sandifer symptoms!!!!!, We started with 15 mg and went all the way up!!!!!

Go for it!!!! THough I’m no doc, go up slowly though to see if it affects their system…

October 6, 2007 at 7:27 pm #43851

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Where are you from?? I am from PA but a good nj doc we went to started my dd at 15 and went up to 22.5 mg, Dr Eicher feeding and swallowing ctr

October 6, 2007 at 11:58 pm #43866

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ADISMOM wrote: Where are you from?? I am from PA but a good nj doc we went to started my dd at 15 and went up to 22.5 mg, Dr Eicher feeding and swallowing ctr

I’m from Portland, Oregon.

October 7, 2007 at 7:43 am #43872

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You can get Dr. Phillips to call your doc directly. Beware though that he’ll probably recommend zegerid. Alternately, I had to keep Dr. shopping… no one would read the marci-kids info I printed off, and we didn’t have too many med options in Canada at the time.

Finally we found a new doc. I just told him that our old doc put her on 30mg (even though it was only 22.5). He said, okay, and wrote the script for 30 from then on. I didn’t like the idea of having to lie about dosage for the longterm, so this was a good solution for us.
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