my mother was on the methodone program n done alot of drugs y i was in her stomick , i am now 18 and i wonder if half my problems i hav today come from what my mum was doing , i suffer alot of depression n hav alot ov mood swings i get very temperded very easy i always hav so much energy , as a child i was very hard to handle , i never sleep proply .. i just want some ansers do you think it dose come from methodone or is it just me ?? please somebody
i think wat u said is true but also very cruel !! most mothers i know that were on the methodone program r awsummm mums
i have to little brothers one 7 and one 4 and a 13yr old sister , i am 18 we were all methadone babys , we were all in hospital for a long period of time , we had alot of withdrals , we were very hard children to raise , always hypo never able to sit still , cryed alot always got sick , my little brothers r very very brainy but they both hav speech problems n are very very short temperded n sometimes very emotional it is always hard to get them to sleep n to eat, my sister suffers from depression n no one really knows how to control her she is very angry temperded n always has to be doing something , she kan never sit still her moods can change with in a second , i think i hav been the worst it took me a very long time to learn how to talk proply i have always had very bad mood swings very short temperded n very emotional aswell i suffer from depression to , my body shakes alot n i tence up wen im stressed or angry , my body never agrees with medicines , i am always sick i cant sit there with out having something in my hands to play with , i hav a 7month yr old son hu was born healthy n i hav noticed his behaviour is nothing like mine or my siblings , dose anyone hav any older children that r still going throgh problems today ??
have u aktually been throuqh it yourself ?? pple cant blaim their druq addiction on the life they had but u sure cant sit there and say their childs going to hav a bad life , thats wat i call unfair !! dont judge untill u go threw it ur self
Hello,
after reading some of your comments on the effects of methodone, I would like to present my issue. My granddaughter was born on methodone, but my daughter was also doing other drugs other then methodone; cocaine and haroine. Another daughter adopted her and she is in a loving and blessed home with her however, she was placed in head start thinking this would help her when she started school. This is her first year in a regular school. she is 6 now, but she is having a hard time focusing and is being (lazy) I don't like that word, but I can only discribe it as such, about reading simple words, like said, hot, dog, etc... She was placed in tutoring and now the teacher is fustrated and says she doesn't know what to do. I have been looking on the internet in hopes to find symptoms/effect; short term and long term. We can't help her if we can't identify the sympton and associate it with something? She sleeps good, eats good, is very artistic (loves to paint and draw), but doesn't like studing or she can't remember... I don't know.....Its not glasses says the school. So if anyone out there can shed some light on this or refer me to a web page please do so. Thank you and God Bless you and your children...
I'm 28 years old I was born addicted to methodone. I have ADD/CAPD/dyslexia I've always wonder if methodone caused all my learning problems throughout the years.
Besides my learning disabilites. I suffer with a lot of those issues also. Depression, body shakes, short temper, bad mood swings, insomnia. I have a strong threshold for pain medication in order for it to work the dosage has to be higher.
I am so worried about my daughter. I was on 100 mg of methadone and when i found out i was pregnant I wanted to stop it all together. The doctor told me that she wouldnt allow it that it would possibly kill the baby, theni asked to slowly ween off and she no. I wasnt even allowed to lower my dose to even 5 mg less. my baby girl was in I C U for a little over a month and they had to give her morphine and phenabarbitol. now she is 23 months old and she is extremely smart!!! very intelligent, she understands exactly what i am saying to her and lets me know what she wants. only thing is that she doesnt speak much. She only says a few words like mama, dada, ba( bottle or cup),cheese, and will blurt out a word here and there but i never hear that word again. I am so worried as i feel so guilty about being on methadone. My issue wasnt with illegal drugs, i was prescribed painkillers and wanted to come off of them without going through withdrawl, therefore i was put on methadone. I am just truly worried about my baby girl( she is caucasion and jamaican), not sure if that maked a difference or not but just in case it does. Should i be worried
How dare you judge a woman for trying to do what was right by her child. I was put on methadone when I was pregnant because at 18 years old I had a terrible car accident and broke my jaw. While I was building my life I had to undergo 6 jaw surgeries to repair the damage. I was in terrible pain for years. My last surgery was so terrible and the pain was so bad for months I considered suicide to make the pain stop. After all the surgeries were over and years of pain killers I realized that what was meant for help caused harm. I couldnt stop taking opioids without withdrawl. My doctor put me on Suboxone. About a year after that I found out I was pregnant with my second child. I tried to cold turkey the suboxone for the well being of my unborn child. At 13 weeks I almost lost her because of withdrawl symptoms. My doctor put me on Methadone because it was safer for the baby than suboxone or withdrawl. My daughter is 14 months old. She is beautiful, smart and happy. She sleeps better than my 4 year old who was born completely without any substances in my body. DO NOT BEAT YOURSELF UP OVER THIS. As long as you are honest with the baby's doctors they can treat the neonatal withdrawal, and your baby will be fine. People dont understand. A good friend of mine lost her baby at 8 months gestation because he husband thought she was hurting the baby. The withdrawal effects killed the baby. DO NOT LISTEN to people who have never been in your shoes. They are judgmental and really have no clue what they are talking about.
How is it possible to be so judgemental? Are you on drugs; because your spelling is way below normal for an adult. Your post concerns me for the women expecting a child, on a methadone maintence program, (no other drugs or drink), seeing an ob/gyn, in a medical pre-natal program, honest and coordinating all info between the doctors and the methadone clinic, eating and exercising on a healthy and regular basis. Some pregnant mothers, on methadone, are so filled with self hate, regret and incredible fear for what may happen to their baby, there is nothing you can say to make them feel any worse, or for them to judge themselves more harsh than you have in your cruel comment. However, your words can cause a vulnerable woman to take negative actions, reenforcing that she is a horrible human being, which would be detrimental to mother and child. Your comment is irresponsible, please think before you write. And yes I have lived the life of having a child that was a drug addict and a grandbaby born on methadone. I thank God for both of them every day of my life. And yes both are very healthy in their lives and family relationships, intact and living with husband (baby's father) in a happy, normal and productive manner. No one has a crystal ball, please don't presume you have the right to judge unknown women and what they "deserve".
I have been there. my son is 5 now and is healthy and very smart. I read some of the post and im shocked. for the most part. there is nothing to be scared of. when i pregnant i wanted to quit cold turkey at 110 mg, but the clinic advised against they said it would hurt the baby. my ob had no clue about methadone and looked my like i was a bad person. anyway, curtis was born 2 months early and addicted to methadone. he was real shaky and cranky. the doctors suggested that he be given methadone to calm him. we decided to go ahead and curtis was given about 0.5 mg a day and weaned down to off over 3 months. even tho he was early he was healthy and went home when i did. i have been on methadone for 6 years and im the only one i know of that had baby treated with methadone after birth, but out of all the people i know that had babies on it, babies are fine. (lots of people) i truly sorry that your baby was sick. i do know that methadone will cause premature birth and low birth weight and that is why they kept raising my dose and split dosed me because the baby was getting bigger and needed more.i have 3 children and curtis is one of the brightest and calmest of all. i hope your boys ok and your fears are eased. you are welcome to share this if think it will help someone else.
A lot of the little research has done to my knowledge, is, that when a baby is detoxed in utero, there is damage done if the mother was not on a steady dose. Once the baby is out, the detox is physical, and has little damage. My son was born on 130mgs of methadone and I felt terrible. He is 2 now and doing just fine. Dr. says he's great and on time.
My son, now 19, was born while I was on 30 mg of methadone. He experienced mild withdrawal (restlessness and little sleep) beginning the 5th day after he was born. This lasted around 4 days. After that, things were entirely normal. He developed at a normal rate and is fine. When I told the obstetrician that I was a methadone patient, he did not make a big deal out of it. Some one else I knew personally delivered a boy while on methadone around the same time I had my son and her case was totally different. The baby spent a long time in the hospital and was very sick for a long time and to this day has trouble in his life. She and I lived different lives. She chose to use other drugs, prostitution, etc... while she was pregnant. I chose to do my best not to harm my baby.
I have read pages of responses and questions concerning methadone addicted babies and have come to the conclusion that unless they were born with extreme defects that are noticeable within the first milestones, it is impossible to say that methadone addicted babies have a life of misery and delay ahead of them. I am researching it because my step daughter was born addicted and is starting to have behavioral issues (she is 9 years old now). What I am concluding though is her problem is still the same as it was when she was born...her mother. Her mother still uses methadone and other opiates, has behavioral issues of her own, does not give her the attention, discipline, and training that every child needs. I think her behavior is directly related to the environment she spends the most time in. Her mother wants to say she is ADHD and needs to be put on medication which is the worst thing I think could happen. My step daughter is delightful, smart and active just like other 9 year olds her age when she is with me and her dad. She turns into a nightmare at moms. That can't be blamed on the original addiction problem.
And for the post by KEZ, you can't blame the guys for it. In my step-daughters case, this was a prior relationship of my husbands (who was clueless that she was on methadone) in which the "mom" said she had her tubes tied and could not get pregnant (lie), he paid for an abortion and she said she had it, but instead had bought drugs with the money...obviously he wasn't with her after that, but she continued with the pregnancy and now we are dealing with the rest...