GI Specialist

As you know, yesterday was the appointment with the GI specialist. I tend to have this problem with each specialist we go to, I get so hopeful for each appointment and latch on to every word they say and then nothing pans out from it and then I'm disappointed again. The good news is that, that didn't totally happen yesterday. We finally got some answers yesterday as to things we are NOT dealing with, and some possibilities of what we ARE dealing with.

We are more then likely NOT dealing with anything metabolic or malabsorbtion issues. Almost all her stool tests have come back negative. We are still waiting for one, but he said he'd be surprised if it was positive.

His thoughts are that this is could be some extremely severe acid reflux, or some kind of condition that has a really long name that I can't remember that has to do with the esophagus.  He said it's normally prone in children that have allergies, and come from an allergic family. So he encouraged us to keep our appointments with the allergist and the other specialists, because they could all be connected.


Anyway, the next steps for this are upping her reflux meds. She's already on a very strong acid blocker, so we'll up it one more time and if that doesn't work, then he figures we should do a scope to have a look inside to see what her esophagus looks like. So for the next two weeks we'll see if her meds help her eat better, which hopefully will also help her gain better. If that works, then he's fairly certain this is reflux related.

So here's hoping it's really that simple. I'm very scared that it's not, but I am really, really hoping it is!  Do you know how happy we would be to put this all behind us, and to really be able to start enjoying M in a way we haven't been able to yet??!! Without watching her every stinking move and every drop of formula that goes into her body, and watching her cheeks to see if I think they have grown, or if maybe, just maybe she has a new fat roll that I haven't seen yet, etc.

I realize this appointment doesn't answer all my questions, but at the moment I would be OVER THE MOON if she started to eat better and gain better. I can get over my child being small, but I just want her to eat something and at the very least continue to gain...even if it is slowly.  So if you're praying for us, please pray that it really would be this simple. And if its not, that we would at least be on the right track to figuring it all out.