painkillers

[ajh83]

I really need someones help.  I'm 24 weeks pregnant, and on and off thru out my pregnancy I have mostly done hydrocodon, but I have done some oxycontin too.  I'm not prescribe to them, I just have an addition to them.  I'll stop doing them for a couple of weeks and then my boyfriend, who is also addicted to them or myself will get some and we will start doing them again.  I already have a 2 year old and while I was pregnant with him I  did pills too, but not  the whole time and not nearly as much.  He came out find, but that doesn't mean that this baby will.  I am so angry and discusted at myself that I'm still doing pills.  I just want help to stop doing them and staying off of them.  I was also wondering if anyone knew if there was anyway that my baby would be fine  and if she's not what will happen...please someone respond I willing to hear what anyone has to say.

[JeremysMom07]

I have a 1 year old, and my entire pregnancy, I took hydrocodone (prescribed by my doctor) & abused them. I weaned myself off around 8months, because I didnt want my baby to be addicted like I was.... Its hard but youve gotta do it for your baby.....

I think you should talk to your doctor, and also to your boyfriend. Tell him that he doesnt need to be bringing it near you. Youve got an addiction & when something is in front of you, saying no is way hard,..... so, see if he'll just try to keep them away from you....

& dont stop taking them CT... It can cause your baby severe withdrawals, even in your tummy.... It can cause early labor, along with other problems....
Good luck- keep us updated!

[slk714]

so glad you posted, i am pregnant as well, 16 weeks, and addicted to vicodin. i am here to lend my support, i know the guilt that is associated with this, it is devastating, making it harder to stop, wierd as that may be. i totally agree, 1234betterlife has been a Godsend to me thru this ordeal. please contact her, for you and the baby's sake. if you ever want to talk, i amhere. i never thought it would be so hard, and always shunned and judged those who used while pregnant, now, here i am, helpless to the addiction, but now winning. i will b here for you , pm me anytime

[avisg]

CAT is right plz PM 1234betterlife ........... she will be a great help for you .PLZ don't CT it is not healthy when you are pregnant ....
Have you told your OBGYN?

[CATUF]

pm 1234betterlife.  she is a nurse (rn) with substantial experience not only with ob/gyn generally, but specifically with addiction during pregnancy.  

she can and will be of great help to you.

she is nothing short of a medical angel.

[CadillacJack]

Do you know what withdrawals feel like? Can you imagine a newborn, that can't tell anybody how it feels, going cold turkey? That's what may very well happen, at the least. Get it together. There's much support on this forum, but you need to get a move on. Talk to some of these folks, and also your doctor, about suboxone. Get so kind of treatment now. And if your other half doesn't have enough sense to go along with this and help you,  not to mention himself, then that's another problem that needs addressed. Otherwise, you're lack of action will be heavily borne by your own infant. Does that get through? Stay on this forum. Many wise folk here, myself excluded. They will give you some good tips.