is taking hydrocodone while being five months pregnant dange

HI, I'm almost five months pregnant and my doctor put me on hydrocodone i told my doctor it was not helping so he doubled my dosage from taking 1 550mg. pill every 4-6 hours to taking 2 pills every 4-6hrs i asked him if there were any symptoms or sideffects that i should know about and he told me no. but what i would like to know is if there is any thing i should worry about any sideffect or things like that is it o.k for my baby

The FDA declares that the effects of this drug on a fetus are currently uknown.

Chelsea,
I am a mother of two and I know what it is like to be in pain during pregnancy. Just a word of advice- frequency and how much you take of the Vicodin counts. If you take it every 4-6 hours and never give it a chance to clear your system, when your baby comes out he/she will want it!! It won't be very fair. You should try taking two before the pain gets too bad and then maybe you won't need to take any for a good 12 hours or so. That sounds okay- for future reference it takes five half lives for a drug to completely clear your system. Vicodin (hydrocodone) has a half life of about 4 hours... so 20 hours after taking two pills they are completely out of your system (and your baby's since you provide his/her route of excretion). Hope this helps!!

I am ashamed to admit this but I used hydrocodone during my last 2 pregnancies and both of my children have shown no side effects from the drug. They also didn't seem to show any signs of withdrawal after birth. I didn't use high doses but did use almost daily. I'm not saying that it doesn't effect the baby but I did want to share my experience since there doesn't seem to be any non-biased research on the subject.

Just to warn you they will drug test you and the baby when it's born so your Dr. must be aware or you need to have a valid prescription for them or Social Services will get involved!!! TRUST ME ON THIS AND JUST PLS BE CAREFUL!!! It certainly doesn't make a bad mother!!! Good luck mamma and PLS TRUST ME ON THIS!!!!

I am 2 months pregnant and I regretfully have been addicted to hydrocodone for a few years now. I know that there are no known side effects from using them and some doctors even prescribe them, but I would still like to stop taking them. I only take 4-5 7.5/500mg a day, but I still feel like this is too much for my baby. I am more scared of the withdrawls hurting my baby then anything. What can I do?[/i]

I had a nephrostomy tube put in at 4 1/2 months along. I took oxycodone, and /or hyrorocodone (5-10mg -325) every 4 hours until after the baby was born. They even put me on a diloted drip a couple of times. My baby has no side effects, and niether one of us went through withdrawls.
Everything will be fine.