How Late Into Pregnancy Is It Safe To Stop Taking Suboxone? (Top voted first)

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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Ok so I'm jus gonna tell you guys my deep dark secret.. I am almost 9 months pregnant with my lil girl and have been on 1mg of suboxine the whole time give or take and now am on prolly .5 mg and NO ONE knows but me and my dealers... Not my doc not my family not the babies father.. Everyday I wake up and think about how much a peice of s*** I am! I should have been stronger I should have stoped when I found out I should have told my doc but now it's to late I have went a day Invetween but once I hit that second day and I'm hurting so bad I'm scard that's what my lil girl is feeling.. I wanna take a tiny peice sooooo bad rite now I'm like fighting myself telling myself o ill jus try not to do any tommro I will start tommro.. Yea ok first thing when I wake up subs is what I think about and then I spend my whole day searching online for people like me and there stories.. My plan was to be done in my second trimester yea didn't work out that way for me and now I'm terrified my baby is gonna be born addicted, my pain meds won't work when I go to deliver.. And everyone is gonna find out about my deeeep dark secret.. No one will ever forgive me and ya kno what I will never forgive myself for doin this to my poor unborn child.. I am a true f***ing loser! My old self would KILL this person I am today.. Well thanks had to get that out been holding it in for 9 months.. Pray for me and my babie girl please!!!!

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Hi crystal, I recently went through the same thing. I have a 6 month old baby boy in which I took suboxon during my pregnancy for him! I weaned myself down to about 1-2 mg per day and he was born 6 lb 13 oz and very healthy and had no withdrawal what so ever! I'm not a dr or anything I'm only telling u my experience bc I drove myself nuts over this while pregnant and couldn't find anyone to give me an answer. He is a very good baby and hardly ever cries! I also breastfed him while taking 1 mg a day! Dr told me that very very little would pass through breast milk if any did at all bc it's not something u swallow,, it goes directly into ur blood stream! Ive been told that it's dangerous to stop taking it during pregnancy bc of the risks of miscarriage and preterm labor. I'm now off the suboxon and will never go back down that road again! It's hard I know. Don't let anyone judge you and don't be hard on yourself. Best of luck to u and I hope this helps ease ur mind.

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How did you take suboxone? That is a worry of mine since im not prescribed subs. I just found out im pregnant and dont want to miscarry becuause i tried to quit. I also don't want my 5th baby experiencing wd symptoms. Will they test me for subs in my routine visits? Will it show up in the test? Help pls.

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I am on my 5th pregnancy. I have taken suboxone through 3 other pregnancies. I have a huge urge to quit this time around. But with my other children none of them were born with any withdraw symptoms. They were all completely healthy and i got ot take them home after the regular 48hours. The reason i want to quit this time is because its been years and i just think it is time to quit. But with all my pregnancies i was only on about 4-12mg.. hope this helps

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I am 29 weeks and expecting my first a beautiful babygirl named Layla, I'm 25 years old and I was addicted to roxy 30mgs. I never have touched heroin or oxy cotton in my life, I don't smoke cannabis or do any other drugs the pain pill addiction is stemming from open chest lung surgery I had a few years back. I have friends who did drugs while pregnant and CPS got involved and ruined their lives. I don't consider suboxone a drug to get high off, it's my medicine. When I found out I was pregnant I was on a subonxe program and I stopped going I was petrified of telling the doctor cuz I don't want CPS involved at all. I'm married, I'm a television producer and I'm stable mentally and financially. So when I found out I was preggo I stopped my suboxone and some how I was fine, I had been prescribed 8mg a day and was only taking 4mg. Then at 14 weeks I got a servere upper respitory infection and was admitted in the hospital for 5 days. They were giving me Tylenol with codeine. Codeine is an opiate. So when I was discharged I found myself in withdrawel and started taking suboxone again. No more than 2mgs a day and my bestfriend has a script and shares with me so I don't have to go to a doctor. I'm praying that since I'm only taking 2mg that my daughter isn't even getting any. I refuse to tell my doctor. I feel like if I told them in the beginning it would have been fine but now it's too late. I've kept info from them and it will be awful if I tell then now. No matter the circumstances and the fact this all originated from lung surgery and started again with the hospital putting me on opiates I know I will be branding myself by telling the doctor. It's not an option. It's too late in the pregnancy. I'm happy I'm not the only person.any advice or success stories I'd love to here just no one say tell a doctor! Thanks god bless and good luck!!!!

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@ first time mommy-did you stop taking subs? I am in the same position right now I'm 25 weeks and trying so hard to stop but worried about WDs while pregnant. Like you these are not prescribed to me and so I have not told my OB. I keep looking for answers but have yet to find anything useful. Please help!

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I am about 2 months pregnant and on suboxen but mine is prescribed. I'm just finding out tonight that I am pregnant. I can tell you Suboxen WILL come up, I see my family DR monthly and he does drug exams and for a while my suboxen wasn't coming up, but the last 4 months it has every time.The baby's first stool goes back 6 weeks. I have a 4 year old and was addicted to pain pills, and my OB knew the entire time what I was taking I was scared so I told him. He told me to lower my dose each week, and I did but my son had withdrawals and yes CPS got involved and took my baby after he was able to leave, I couldn't take him home. I'm not trying to scare any of you, BUT GET A PRESCRIPTION AND TELL YOUR DR. That was the most painful thing having to leave the hospital without my baby and not being able to pick him up after his 7 day stay in hospital. I went to treatment and got my son back, actually we went to a place together it housed 12 moms and 21 kids but I didn't want my baby to go his first year without me. Today he is a very healthy 4 year old not a thing wrong with him, but to all moms to be not prescribed, I'd def tell my ob. You do not want a CPS case opened and you sure don't want them in your life, be HONEST. Hope this helped

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Unless you are already seeing a high risk OB-GYN, I would continue on the med and seek a second opinion from someone who deals with high risk pregnancy, as your pregnancy definitely fits into this category. This drug is different from opiates, but there could still be problems if you stop it without seeking a second opinion first. I am an R.N., ind this is what I would do, as not all OB physicians have the samr level of exoertise when it comes to issues regarding drugs and prenatal and neonetal effects on the infant, or the mother.

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Sweetish you really need to talk to your doctor. I know you are feeling so guilty right now. I was somewhat in the same boat 5 yrs ago. I was pregnant with twins and a pill addict. The moment I saw that stick turn I was terrified and went straight to the Internet looking for advice. I saw so many things about not stopping a opiate addiction while pregnant because it can cause a miscarriage. So in my addict way of thinking that was my "excuse" to not stop. I was sick with guilt the entire pregnancy. By the grace of God the twins were healthy and had no withdrawals but were a little premature. Afterwards I heard of some many women who were pregnant addicts but they told their doctor and were put on suboxone or subutex. It would have been so much safer and just smart to go through this experience being monitored by a doctor. I know you feel so guilty right now but I promise you that talking to your doctor and telling him everything and I do mean everything is so much more safe for you and that baby. It will take so much stress off of you knowing that you are being monitored and doing things the right way and you know that stress is also very bad for your body to deal with pregnant. So please talk to the Dr about it, you could also make an appointment with a suboxone Dr first and explain the situation to him and then he or she could communicate with your ob. It is also not a very good idea to keep it from your ob because during my addiction treatment while going to meetings and stuff I heard several stories where babies were born to addicts and their ob had not been informed and when the baby was born it tested positive for opiates and CPS took the baby. I was prescribed low dose pain mess at the end of my pregnancy for an absessed tooth so it didn't raise any red flags that the twins had any in their system. I'm sorry this is so long but I hope it helps. Good luck.

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You will be fine and don't beat your self up.. things will work out, promise. I was in same boat about not sharing my situation and being prego on sub. But I finally got tired of holding it in. I realized actually being honest and sharing what I'm going through ended up being easier and less stressful. Everyone ended up being right there for me and understanding.I hope everything works out for u and 85% of the stories about people on subs n prego end up being perfectly fine :-) good luch

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I am currently 38 weeks pregnant and on Subutext. I stated out at 16mgs a day now i'm up to 20mg. I have wanted to stop taking it many times and asked my doctor about it.Withdrawls can harm your baby don't try to stop. The milagrams I am prescribed are just that I go by how I feel I start my day with a half a one and if I start to feel icky I will take half to a quarter more. My baby is very healthy she is around 8lbs already and constantly moving. If you do have to take something during pregnancy subutext is way better for you then methadone. So if it the effects it will have on the baby that you are concerned about just realize your baby is a lot weaker then you are withdrawls for the baby will be way worse then the effects the subutext has.

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Hello, im curious what happened with some of the pregnancies of the women who didnt tell their drs. I am a little over 15 weeks pregnant, taking 4mg of suboxone once or twice a week...I havent told my dr, nor am I prescribed the subs. Any info would be great

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Ok, i know a lot of Posts were from over a year ago, but for the more recent ones: I'm currently 21 weeks pregnant. First time mommy! I was on 8 mg of subutex daily for about 7 or 8 months, found out i was pregnant. I wanted to completely come off the clinic i went to Lied, saying it would be harmful to my baby if i came off. I am high risk because of this and I'm epileptic. I see a perinitologist, who specializes in addiction medicine. He switched me to suboxone, cause strips are easier to wean off of(easier to Break into small pieces). Im now down to 2 mg.one in the morning and one mg at night. Being pregnant your metabolism is quicker,and medicine leaves faster,so it's better to split your dose. I hope to be off in two to three weeks!!=) and honestly I've felt pretty ok. AFTER 20 weeks is when You harm CAN HARM YOUR BABY. SO BE CAREFUL,WORK WITH YOUR DOCTOR. Before 20 weeks my doctor said the baby will be ok. I hope this helps someone. Good luck.

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I was prego and took suboxone through my whole pregnancy and have a healthy baby boy. I didn't want tobtake the chance of going into horrible withdrawals and having a miscarriage. I gradually decreased my 16 but never stopped. Yes baby did have a very slight withdrawal and was given phenobarbital for 2wks but he is healthy and doing very well. Only you can decide what is best for you and baby.

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From what I've learned, you really don't want to be on it if you're getting a c-section. The Naloxone in the Suboxone can affect how the meds work to numb you up. You really, really shouldn't go into a c-section without the docs knowing you're on Suboxone!!! As to quitting, I was taking 1mg a day and dropped an 1/8 of a mg every 4 days until I got to 1/8 of a mg a day. Did that for a couple days but it wasn't really helping so I just stopped. It still sucked! It wasn't as bad as it could have been, but still not fun. Hot/cold, goose bumps, runny nose, headache, can not sleep at all!!!! When I try to sleep, my legs kick and my arms kick. Sleeping pills aren't helping. Day 3 of taking nothing, I took 1/8 of a mg before going to bed and that helped a little with the sleep. I don't really think it made the withdrawals worse, either. So you can try it that way... Once you get to about 1mg you should break it up into 2 or 3 times a day. The little bit just doesn't last all the way thru the day. So maybe try 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 12 hours later. Good luck!

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Re: Sicksadgirl (# 16)

I know this post is old but I am in the exact situation you have just described. How did things end up. How was your baby and did she withdrawal I'm so terrified. Thanks

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Hey, Were in the same boat girl! Please write me back!

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Hi i have been on suboxone for 3year & i started with taking 3 but now im down to a half as of 2 weeks ago. I just found out 2days ago that iam only 2 weeks pregnant & i have been worried about my meds my doc is putting me on subutex as of mon, but i figured i would tapper myself to a 1/4 a day soon but the question i need to know is should i stop all together before my last few months & when?

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I am in the same boat as you are or were...idk if you had your child yet or not. I am takin Suboxin while pregnant to and i take about 1 mg a day probably. I used to be hooked on painkillers really bad so i switched to Suboxin to get off them and now i have the addiction to Subs. Idk what to do and i dont want DFS taking my child away from me or anything. Iv been told its bad for you to quit while pregnant cuz it can kill the baby and iv also been told it can cause withdrawl. I really need some input and help on what to do. Will they take my child away from me after i have the baby? Will the epidural not work? And how do i quit when im pregnant or do i quit at all? I just want a healthy baby to go home with...i thought to myself oh i dont take much a day so i think ill be ok, but then again i stress myself out crying wondering whats gonna happen. Im scared to death to talk to my OB about the situation, so what do i do? If you can help msg me back PLEASE!

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On the one hand, it's better she's taking Suboxone instead of methadone, H, or pills. But she really needs to tell her OBGYN about them. The baby will need to be monitored for withdrawals when it's born. But I wouldn't worry too much about birth defects... From what information I've found, it's not that bad for the baby. I've known people and found lots of people on these forums that took it their whole pregnancy and their babies were all perfectly fine. It can be dangerous to stop, too since it can cause a miscarriage. She really needs to be under the care of a doctor.

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