I'm pregnant and on oxycontin. What is the safest thing to do to get off of it?

Having sex and doing drugs are never a good mix, cause something can go wrong. Ill be honest here, you probably screwed everything up by doing that drug, and continuing to have sex. You can check into rehab, you can lower your doeses, you can do all that stuff, best choice would be, get an abortion, get off the drug, start over, your babys probably already addicted. I had to go through that, not the same exact drug, but I know what its like, I know how it feels to have to give up a child, for your childish choices. We all have to live and learn, if abortions not for you, then take your chances on having a "under developed" child, and pray to god that he's healthy. I'm just trying to be real with you. A lot of people are gonna disagree, oh well.

I am pregnant also and i have been taking them now for 4 years? I have decided to come off slowly? My OBGYN told me that is the best way to do it, yea its a lil hard but however its better than just adding another med to your list to take? There isnt really anybad that comes out of taking it. She said it is only a catergory C a lil more above Tylenol... The only major thing is make sure you off with in 2 mounths of delivery or the baby will go thru withdrawls also an i know thats not somthing you want? Dont get on methadome or any other, your just subing out a catagory C for a Catagory G... An thats worse... An dont take advice from some one that just says to quit, cuz they probley have NEVER been thru what we have to go thru.. Someone tha has nEVER been thru it has NO idea what it feels like to have the cold sweets mixed with all the other horable pain an emotions that come from withdrawling? It is worse that comming off crack or cocain... It is on the top list of worst withdrawls... So If you have never been thru what we have an know 1st hand how it feels how do you think giving advice to us will help. IF it wasthat easy to just stop an quit im sure we would in a heart beat... It not just a 3 day thing it will take bout 2 weeks of wanting to die, Never take advice from some one who has a opinon on it that has never done it themsalves. They just look at you as a drugy an doesnt know what they r talking about.... I was taking 5-9 a day an now im down toa half in the am an a half in the pm. Most of my sweets an shakes are gone once you get down to this a day it will get alot easyer an just the thought of doing this good for you an baby will make it worth it an not so bad I promise, im 4mounths prego an im about done an its been bout 1mounth since i kicked back on dossage... Just make sure you eat alot, I know that thats one thing that is so hard to do when your going thru this but you have to push thru eaing so baby stays healthy... You will get ther i promise...

I know....your baby will be born addicted on Subutex, Soboxil, Oxy, Xanax and Klonopin and a whole lots of other c**p. Which means your baby will have from mild to severe withdrawals. High pitched pain, excessive sucking, wakes up screaming, shaking, diarrhea, muscles so tight you cannot get them to relax their arms or legs. Their skin on their butt, their chin may breakdown and get excoriated. They will be put on MORPHINE for about 30 days and be kept in a hospital until they can slowly wean them off..they will try to decrease the dose and if they start again with the above symptoms, they will probably not decrease that day...all depends on what mom was taking and how much. GET OFF THE DRUGS BEFORE YOU ARE CARELESS ENOUGH TO GET PREGNANT! Addicted babies are not a good thing.

And as far as the above saying "baby gets a little drugs and mine was alright a year later"..who is to say she is not alright. How alright would she or he have been if they had not been exposed to your pain med in the first place. Pain is good, it makes you know you are alive. No one said your life is supposed to be pain free. Live with it. Who knows if your daughter or son is not doing to have to cope with ADD, poor coping mechanisms, depression, lupus or a wide variety of other weird illness later in life because they were born addicted?
Who knows if they are not going to harm you or themselves one night because of the way the drugs made their brain work.

Do not go off the drugs cold turkey. And think of what you are going to tell all your family in friends that your baby has to stay in the hospital for a month after you get discharged. Good luck. :cry:

regular05 wrote:

So you want to do what's best for your baby but you don't want to go through the whole 48 hours of taking yourself off the drug? As in, 5mg less followed by 5mg less etc.; you'd rather just keep taking opiates at a low dose...right. And who cares about this baby?

First of all! It takes a bit longer then 48hrs to withdraw from Oxy Contin especially longer if you been taking a lot. Cutting down is good from 80's, to 40's, to 20's and then from there if you would like to go down to 10's and then purks! As quickly as you can handle now METHADON & SUBOXAN are NOT the way to go they the both are drugs which the pharmaceutical companies call a "anti drug" to help you and that is another thing WORSE TO WITHDRAW FROM. You want to do your best to do it yourself, it may take up until a week to start feeling like yourself again, the first 3 days are the worst. Take advil, sleep meds if ur doctor can prescribe them to you. I don't know what else to say.