I NEED HELP!!!! My name is megan and im 23 yrs old. Ive struggled with a very bad opiate addiction since i was 14 and sought help for it a lil over a year ago. I went to treatment and got put on suboxone last october and have been on it ever since. However, about 10 months ago my insurance cancelled and I stopped getting them prescribed. I continued to take suboxone (about 24mgs a day) because I didnt want to risk going back to opiates, but I was gettinng them illegally from other people with prescriptions. In May I found out i was pregnant. I went to see my old sub dr just to ask for his advice on what I should do. He told me that it was not safe to just come off them cold turkey because if I go thru w/d then the baby will as well and the stress on the baby could possibly cause a misscarige, so he suggest weining myself off until i felt comfortable enough to stop completley. I informed my ob that I was on them, but I made a mistake and lied and told her I was being prescribed by a dr. Im 32 wks now and i didnt think I would still b on them this far into my pregnancy. Im down to 2mgs a day and recently tried taking the jump off, and was unsuccsessful. It was really hard and I was scared to put the baby thru that. My biggest concern is the baby testing positive for subs when he is born and then having cps take him away from me. I called the cps hotline today and just asked them without giving them any of my info and the lady told me as long as my ob dr knows, so i wasnt hiding it, and depending on the amount in my system ( so they know i wasnt taking them to get high) and depending on the effects it has on the baby (no w/d's when he is born) then I should b ok. She said there will prob def b a report and after the investigation as long as they dont feel like i was abusing them, they shouldnt take him away. Does anyone know how bad babies go thru w/d from subs???? I dont want him to suffer because of my bad decisions. Im not a bad mother. I have a 3yr old son and my life revolves around my kids, but this whole situatuon has made me feel really guilty. Another one of my concerns is my sons father. Although it hasnt been for a long time, there is history of domestic violence and I know what he is capable of. He has gone through conseling and things between us have gotten a lot better, but he doesnt know about my opiate addiction as he was incarcerated while I was going through it. If he finds out that I have been taking any kind of drugs while i was prego and especially if our baby gets taken away....i dont know how he will react. Im so torn and I dont know who to turn to. If anyone has been through this, or anything like what im going thru, I would greatly appreciate some advice. Thank you
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