Went out for lunch at an English pub in a nearby village today with some friends of ours. Love the pub, the landlord & landlady are very friendly and talkative (from South London) and the food is good too. After a long lunch we went to buy a filing cabinet for G's office (thrill a minute) and I'm now exhausted. I find that full days of activity really seem to take it out of me more & more. At least the weather is perking up, a whopping 11 degrees celcius today, lots of meltage of the ice, and possible to wear a t-shirt :-)
Last night I went to bed and was immediately hit by an excrutiating attack of heartburn. I ate 4 TUMS and they did absolutely nothing, so I had to take a Zantac which I don't really like to do during pregnancy but it could not be avoided as I was in agony. They're not unsafe, there's been no instances of any harm caused by them either in animals or human beings, but they don't *do* studies on pregnant women therefore these and most drugs remain in Category 'B' when pregnant... which means 'we can't guarantee that they're safe because we can't really study it, so only take them if you really need to'. Anyhow, Zantac worked, and after an hour I was able to sleep comfortably.
Posted by katie at February 29, 2004 05:22 PMhttp://www.gaviscon.com/default.asp
I suffered with indigestion really badly with both of my pregnancies – I was prescribed *huge* bottles of Gaviscon as it is safe in pregnancy. I kept one on my bedside cabinet and swigged from it when ever I needed it! I also had one in the living room so I could swig from that one whilst watching the telly!
I know it tastes gross – but bloody hell it works!
Am thinking of you – this is the hard bit, but it gets better when you get to the ‘glowing’ bit – even though the only glow for me was from the red spots I got!
I have just found out that my other friend is 7 weeks gone, so that is 3 of my mates now – there must be something in the water!