Hi! I sorry to say that the heartburn will really go away when you give birth and release all that abdominal pressure. What you can do now is to eat 4 to 5 smaller meals in a day than having 3 regular meals. Eat healthy I hope you don't drink coffee. Then wait a an hour or two after eating before lying down.

Taking OTC Prilosec is ok for pregnancy. I've been taking it all of third trimester, but check with your doctor that it's ok to take it in the second. You can take it every day. The only reason why it states that it is a 14 day treatment is because if it hasn't fixed the heartburn after 14 days, you have a more serious condition, like heart disease (you should also check with your doc on that too.)

This will help for acid reflux (GERD) too.

Thank you so much!! I will definately check with my doctor tomorrow when I go for my check up because sometimes it is so unbearable.

Strawberi --I dont drink coffee. I used to though and that was before I found out I was pregnant.

But thanks to you both for responding.

i feel you pain hun

try rolaids instead of tums

i will try rolaids also. a friend of mine told me to try drinking some ice cold milk..... I dont know if that i will help but I am willing to try anything (safe of course) right about now..

Ah, all I can offer is sympathy. I don't think I've ever had heartburn

thanks

After coming from my check up today the doctor said the same as you said STRAWBERI and that was to eat small frequent meals and she also told me to try a the liquid mylanta and see if that works for me.

Baby is doing great! His heartbeat was in the 150's and on my next visit I have to look forward to the glucose drink.

the glucose drink i thought was actually pretty good LOL

LOL

glad I could help

Try Zantac over the counter. My dr had to put me on prescription Nexium. I'm going Thursday and I'm begging him to do it again. I can eat a piece of lettuce and get heartburn.

i do have heartburn also, but its tolerable, i just avoid oily ,smelly foods and cold drinks, and i agree a small amount of meals 4 to 5 times a day w/ warm tea or plain water.

ive been having heartburn from the beginning. the only thing that helps for me is rennies

my doc said tums are ok to take while pregnant for heart burn relief

My doctor gave me a perscription of ranitidine for my acid reflux/heartburn. I took it one night and got an intense headache that lasted throughout the night and into the next morning. Since then I've been kind of afraid to take it, but I took one last night & the middle of today and so far nothing unusual has come of it. I also take Tums when I need quick relief, but I find that rolaids "fizz" and cool my throat better and more quickly. So far throughout my pregnancy Ive gone through 2 bottles of rolaids, 1 bottle of tums and I have no idea how many little packs of the rolaids (I buy them whenever I forgot to bring the giant bottle with me lol)

Thanks to everyone that is giving me suggestions.

i hope you start to feel better. heartburn is awful