How Late Into Pregnancy Is It Safe To Stop Taking Suboxone? (Page 4)

I am almost 14 weeks pregnant. I want to stop taking my Suboxone completely, but have heard it can cause premature labor if stopped too far into pregnancy. My doctor also said that withdrawals can not cause miscarriage or hurt the unborn baby in any lasting ways. I have been taking 2mg of subutex (now Suboxone) for the past week. Am I okay to cease all Suboxone use, or should I wait another week or so?

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Hey im 33 weeks pregnant and ive beendoing opopanas off and on the whole time do u think if I got one subutex and quit everything my baby will be okay when I have her at 40 weeks

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Did this work for you???? I'm down to 1mg a day and only have two months before my baby girl is here! I need to get off :"(

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I am the same way I need help!

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Please someone help me! I have read many woman who have tapered off and been fine by the end of their pregnancy! This is not a debate for me, I must get off. I am ashamed, my husband nor doctor know. I am only on 1mg and have weened down a lot! I was prescribed oxycodone for pinched nerve pain for a year, and when found out I was pregnant started taking small amounts of Suboxone instead of the oxycodone that was prescribed. Please only comment to me, if you have tapered off. Please no judgement, I am a great mother of a six year old boy and I just want to get off of this before my baby girl is here. It is so hard! Someone please please help me :"(

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I tapered down incredibly slowly. It's best to be off prior to the 3rd trimester. So make a tapper schedule that works for you. I dropped by a tiny bit every 4 days. From 1mg to 7/8mg to 3/4mg to 5/8mg to 1/2mg to 3/8mg to 1/4mg to 1/8mg. By the end, I felt the suboxone was making me sicker than just stopping would be. So I just stopped (after a day at 1/8mg) and it sucked for a couple days but then was fine. I have a happy, healthy, strong 7 month old now. He's already sitting, crawling, and standing. He's hit all his milestones and has spent no time in the nicu or needing extra care.

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This is my second child taking suboxone I am 22 weeks and trying to Come down I just been taking a half the hole time but I worry this one might withdraw for some reason my 2 year old done great he never withdrawal ed at all but I don't know really what to do I do anything to keep him from withdrawal but I don't know if I am ready to come off the suboxone......what should I do

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I know this is a older post but am in the exact same position I'm 38 weeks and on .5 mgs of subs and no one knows, I'm curious to know how it turned out? Did back you detox at all? I heard at that lil amount they don't.

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Half a mg or half an 8mg strip? It's a big difference. If you're taking half a strip, the baby probably will have withdrawals. If you're taking .5mg, then you can actually stop taking it altogether (I had withdrawal symptoms at .5mg so it wasn't really worth it to keep taking so little). Anything around 2mg and under, I've heard the baby won't have withdrawals. But I have no experience, I quit before the 3rd trimester and I was under the care of a doctor. You should tell your doctor.

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I am 5 wks pregnant and have been tampering off suboxone. I have been taking a 1/4 strip 3x a day for the past 4 days. Today I am trying 1/4 strip 2x a day. I plan to do that for 3 or 4 days and go down again. I just worry because I hear you should switch to subutex. Since I am so early and have been tampering, I don't see why I should change prescriptions. I am presribed. To subs so its all legal. Any advice would be great. I'm just so scared since I had a miscarriage Feb 2014 while I wad taking pain killers. After that tragic event I started subs and in Aug 2014 I went to Dr and started taking them to right way under a drs care. I am prescribed 2 strips a day but I was only taking 1 a day until I discovered I was pregnant this past Monday and since I went down even more.

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Sounds like you're off to a good start! You have to taper slow or you can lose the baby. Maybe continue 3x a day but cut one dose in half. Set a schedule and stick to it. Good luck!

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Debra, I hope you can advice me. Im currently 13 weeks pregnant with a miracle baby. I've been on suboxone for almost 9 months now and I take 8 milligrams a day. I did tell my doctor and I have been going to a high-risk clinic they both advised me that I should just continue on the medication and not wean off of it, they say it's more dangerous than staying on but honestly I need to get off and so I'm wondering if you can advise me on a taper schedule? the main reason is because my husband has no idea I'm on this medication he has very strong ideas and opinions on people that abused pills and so he would be disgusted with me especially allowing our child to be born addicted to something it would probably destroy our marriage... so my plan is to be off completely by the third trimester I figure I have 3 months to slowly wean down and do it the right way. I also canceled my last suboxone doctors appointment last month so I just have whatever is left over because I'm prescribed 16 but only use 8 so I have enough leftover if I start weaning down asap.

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OK, so at 8mg and 13 weeks, you have to cut down 1mg every week and a half. Do you take it all at once or a couple times a day? When I got lower, I was taking some 2 or 3 times a day because it doesn't feel like it lasts. I would recommend it, at least when you get down to 4mg. So you've been taking 8, that's a whole strip. Fold it in half, then half again, then half again. One 8th is 1mg. Drop to 7mg right away. It's a small change and you won't feel it much. You'll need more time for the smaller changes. Go 1 week at 7, 1 week at 6, 1 week at 5, 1 week at 4. 4mg is easy because it's half. At 4mg, start taking 2mg twice a day. After a week of that, cut down by half a miligram increments every 5 days. So 5 days at 3.5mg (2mg in morning, 1.5mg in the afternoon or evening), 5 days at 3mg (1.5mg at both doses), 5 days at 2.5mg (1.5mg morning, 1mg evening). This part is hard! You'll be getting chills and hot flashes, headaches, trouble sleeping... But you'll have a bit of that because if the baby, too. Once you drop to 2mg, you can actually just stay there and the baby should be fine. But if you want to go lower, I would continue at .5mg increments every 5 days. I dropped below .5mg a day trying to wean slowly but I think that was too much. I was experiencing mild withdrawals from about .75mg and below. It was better to just quit completely and deal with it. I still didn't feel totally "right" for almost a month... But I was also pregnant and that throws things off. Good luck with this! If you need to go faster or slower, doc said dropping every 4 days is the fastest. Dropping every 2 weeks would be really slow but if you need to, do that. Babies usually don't go through withdrawals at 2mg a day so keep that in mind. It's a hard road but you can do it! Let me know how you're doing in a few weeks.

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Let mr know what happens im in the same boat lets talk I want ur email ir number ir ill guve y mine it off everyone I read ur related the most

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Baby girl - u took the words out of my mouth. I need to know what u did and what happened? Please im so scared. We have an addiction n it sucks. We would never hurt our babies. I would love to talk to u please.

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Debra, Thank you so much! this is extremely helpful and I am going to start today dropping to 7 and I'll let you know how I feel as I continue lowering my dose. I'm currently taking 4 milligrams twice a day. I was actually doing three times a day because it felt like it wasn't lasting? but that could just be all in my head so I've cut it down to twice a day. Ill update in a week! I'm extremely determined and I want to do this I'm going to do this. Ladies, mind over matter right? whatever we set our minds to we can essentially do . and don't cry and don't feel bad because you are in recovery with the suboxone and you are not intentionally trying to harm your baby its better than being in active addiction. Good luck!

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I was taking suboxone during the first 4 months of this pregnancy and 4 years prior. I am now 6 months pregnant and was switched to subutex about 2 months ago. This is my second child, by the way. With my first child, I didn't take anything. She came out beautiful. Anyway, as for this pregnancy, I was ashamed to tell anyone about taking suboxone and, when it was finally figured out that I was taking it, my husband was furious. That is when I made the choice to go to a doctor and get subutex. I also informed my OB about what I was doing and she advised me to keep taking it. I am an addict and we all know that there are many things that come along with addiction other than the just using our drug of choice (lying, stealing, etc). I had been stealing the sub from my husband all the while telling him I was not. He finally gave me a surprise drug panel and I failed. Everyone in the family now knows about this and all I hear from my husband is how awful I am, how no one respects me, how I'm killing our child, that I'm selfish, etc. I am really trying to taper down (not going as planned especially when I hear all the time how awful I am) to nothing because I don't want to risk having baby born with withdrawal and CPS being called then I risk losing both my kids and I definitely don't want that. I don't care if the withdrawal makes me uncomfortable but I don't want it hurting the baby as well. I realize that if I'm feeling uncomfortable then so is the baby.

What I'm wondering is what is the safest way to stop taking this? I have no more subutex left and my script can't get refilled for another 2 weeks!! I have some tramadol on hand that I may take when I start feeling super awful and hopefully that holds me over till then with me not taking anything for a few days at a time (I'm sure this subutex is still in my system). I also have some clonapin and vitamin B-12 sublingual tablets to help with the energy part of it. have read the stories on here and I am so grateful that there are other women in the same boat as I am. This post is more to everyone out there but I responded to the post about a woman's baby being taken by CPS and my heart just aches for you. That feeling must have been awful and I can't even imagine what you're going through. My thoughts are with you and I hope that you're doing better now. I just want to quit not just for me but for the baby most importantly and would like to know the safest way--is 6 months ok to stop taking it altogether because that's what I'm looking at now. If I can't get a script refilled for 2 weeks then i may as well consider this as me stopping since I feel as though I have no other option. All I want is for my baby to be ok--I know that whatever damage has been caused was already done early on in the pregnancy. I know that if the baby if the born without any "firsthand symptoms" anything that happens to him whether psychological or emotional issues--will be blamed on me as my husband has made that very clear. I know he's upset so he's saying a lot of things he may not necessarily mean. To end my rant, I really want the baby to be ok since I will not be having subutex for the next 2 weeks--I know it would be good for me but I'm worried for the baby. Any advice until i can get the refill or should I just take my tramadol when needed and the clonapin for the anxiety?

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Hello, i was wondering what you ended up doing since i am in the same situation you were in. Thank you.

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Just wanted ton update. I didn't start weaning process when I said I would because I was feeling so terrible and stress on my body or my baby but I did start yesterday and I took 6 milligrams instead of my usual 8 I have to say I woke up today feeling withdrawals...bbut I only have a certain amount of strips left and I have to do this now or else call my doctor and make a new appointment which she would probably charge me a bunch of money to be seen again and I just can't afford that right now so I really have no choice in the matter.I'm now almost 19 weeks pregnant and hoping that means my risk of a miscarriage is pretty slim at this point?I'm just so scared about everything and it's sad because this is a miracle pregnancy that technically never should have happened and I can't even enjoy it because I'm just full of worries and scared about everything.I'm trying not to stress but I figure if I can at least get down as low as possible maybe my baby won't be born with withdrawals and I really do not want to deal with CPS because it would probably kill my marriage .but I hope everyone is doing ok and keep your head up

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Janna, what have you done to help you wean off and keep the baby ok? I'm in need of any advice I can get about this issue. I am so thankful that I'm not the only woman who is going through this type of situation. I don't want CPS getting involved because i don't want to risk being without my child and my marriage would probably end if that were to happen.

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I was prescribed 24 mgs of subutex my whole pregnancy. I took it very sparingly. When my son was born I was 100% honest & let them know so the hospital could care for him properly. As long as you are taking what is prescribed & are totally honest for yr baby's sake you won't get into any trouble,but my son was born 7-20-13 ,came home 8-9-13 the NICU weaned him off using morophine ,so that he wouldn't withdrawal too bad. He is very happy,healthy,on track as far as development. I was told subutex was a better option then the pain pills I was prescribed before getting pregnant. PLEASE be honest while in labor. A lot of babies addicted to opiates can have severe seizures if hospital staff isn't aware of what you took while pregnant. Just take what you need,but don't stop because it can cause a miscarriage. I have 4 children & my youngest was the only one that I had to take the subutex with. I hope my words help. Good Luck!!

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