Reflux is of the devil

It took me a little while to come to the conclusion and accept it, but my baby girl has acid reflux. Thanks to numerous friends and family members suggesting that it was the culprit, I took her into the doctor for a checkup and in hopes they could help her out. She was prescribed Prevacid at first. However, when Miles went to fill the script, they wanted $250 for it. The pharmacy called our insurance who said that it requires a pre-auth first. On Monday, I called the doctor's office to ask them to take care of it. They said we had to try Zantac first. It has been almost a week now and I am not seeing any big improvements. And half the time, soon after she has taken it, she does a big spit up and I worry most of the medication is just coming right back up. Not to mention, she HATES taking the medication. I asked the office how long she has to stay on it before switching. The nurse seemed a bit uninformed, but said she thought at least a month or longer. Ugh!

For now, this is what we are dealing with:
• LOTS of spit up - sometimes right after eating, sometimes an hour after eating. One night I woke up to the sound of her spitting up and it hitting something. After some searching, I found she had projected her spit up from the bouncy chair she sleeps in next to me in the cosleeper, onto our bed (about two feet away).
• A squirming, squealing, screaming baby when she's being burped or the reflux is hurting her.
• A frequent eater (Sometimes she will eat on and off for 3 or 4 hours straight with just small breaks in between.) I think it's for two reasons: 1) She spits up so much she's still hungry 2) It's comforting to nurse and also helps keep the acid down.
• Waking frequently at night (usually every 2 or 3 hours...sometimes shorter).
• Laundry every day (multiple outfit changes, tons of burp cloths and blankets).
• Congestion (This just started last night. She spit up out her nose and due to residual junk left behind/inflammation of her nose membranes, she is now severely congested.)

It really is awful and I feel so bad for her. I really hope her medication starts working or that I can figure out what to do to help her.

I'll leave with a couple pictures of her giving stink-face at having to take the medication. (And this doesn't even do justice to the faces she pulls.)