Copied from a reflux group I'm on, I posted this Friday when we got home.

We saw the nurse practitioner (the GI was booked all yesterday and wasn't in, today, I figured the nurse was better than nothing, and I wanted to get in ASAP). My husband went in while I stayed in the waiting room with the older two kids, but she then came out to speak with me, anyway, since we were the only ones there at the time. Suggested an elemental formula even though we weren't dealing with classic MSPI symptoms. She first suggested Similac for Discomfort, but I thought that was one step more complex than what she was already on (why add in casein when that is notoriously harder to digest??), and I said my first daughter never did too great on Alimentum, so elemental was the only other real food suggestion she could make. We went home with 2 cans each of PurAmino, Neocate, and Elecare, and she told us we could get whatever we wanted for free, apparently she was willing to keep giving us as much as we needed, indefinitely (when we went to this practice two years ago for my son we left with 6 cans of Neocate, too). Insisted compounded Prevacid was better than solutabs, but that we still should give it on an empty stomach for maximum effectiveness (oy vey), and now we're on 5mg 2x's a day (anyone have success with so little for an 8-week-old baby?). Also prescribed Hyoscyamine. Said that to have any success with simethicone we need to do .9ml in every bottle, not .3. Also recommended adding in more probiotics even though the Gerber Soothe has some in already. We have a follow-up with the actual GI in 2 1/2 weeks. The nurse said if nothing else we can put her on gabapentin (Neurontin) for her "hypersensitivity." Gabapentin is a WEIRD drug, my husband's been prescribed it before for chronic back pain, and an ex boyfriend of mine was on it for OCD. I said if they thought it'd work, I'd give it a shot, but we're going to try everything else, first. So I thought I won't change formula just yet. One thing at a time. We'll try the Prevacid and the hyoscyamine, also more probiotics. The testing place is going to call us early next week to schedule the upper GI test, which my husband insisted we do.

Friday night: 11 to 3, then 4 to 830.

Saturday: One good morning nap, and a 1-hr afternoon nap. Still cranky, still acidy.