Hi everyone I'm trying to make an appointment with the suboxone Doctor my obgyn referred me too and he hasn't been answering or responding back to my calls! I'm calling different clinics today to try to get in today for treatment.
Just wondering if subutex or methadone would be better for my baby? I've done ALOT of research and everyone says subutex is safer but not a lot of research has been done to let it be known if it's safer or not compared to methadone, as for methadone it's been used for pregnant women for the last 40 years
Forgive me for being blunt....if you can't handle a little honesty, don't even read this. Keep in mind I don't speak for everybody, so if you wish to continue, take this with a grain of salt.
Wonder why the Suboxone Doctor never called you back?
Nobody wants to write dope to a pregnant woman.
I would be more upset, but since you're already in the 2nd trimester...does it really even matter at this point, anybody??
I've got a suspicion that, no matter what you do at this point...cold turkey, suboxone, methadone.....you're baby WILL be born an opiate addict. Birth defects are the least of you're worries, and if you're still using dope at this point in the pregnancy, I can only assume you're biggest worry is yourself, you're dope habit, and not the fetus growing in you're belly.
I wasn't born an opiate addict, but I did become one. So that's not really my worry, not like a newborn can satiate his/her addiction for the next 17 years.
What worries me, however, is the thought of a child being raised by an opiate addict. Why?
Well look at the facts, we're addicts....the drugs are more of a priority than many, if not most other things in our lives. And for someone whose about to have a baby, you don't sound like you have much control over you're habit. If you did, the logical thing to do, at this point, would be to reduce you're dose of oxycodone 10% every 2 days or so. Addicts are unreliable, selfish by nature.
All I know is this; as good as I've had it, as fortunate as I was, with the family I was born into, the opportunities I've had, I still oftentimes find myself cursing my life...damning the fact that I was ever born. I'm sure everybody doesn't think like this.
This thread brings to mind though, one subject to me, in particular. I've got a drug-addled relative around 25 or so...hooked up with literally, the craziest chick he could find (not exaggerating) and they had a baby a while back.....accident, on purpose...doesn't matter now.
What matters is that neither of them are in any way, shape, or form prepared to raise a child. They are dirt poor, young, and at least one of them is incurably mentally ill, though not to a dangerous degree. The other one is ill with addiction, which has improved some recently, since they had their SECOND child a while back.
But I digress, they are COMPLETLEY insecure financially..neither has a long-term carrer, or even much of a plan for one. As a consequence for meeting of the demands of the jobs they DO have, they often leave their kids with questionably, shady caretakers.
All in all....it's a really fucking shitty situation. Don't know why I wrote all this, I guess the point i'm trying to get across is this; think of the kid before you think of yourself. Not that you don't....but if you don't have a fair amount of stability in your life at this time, you better get some.
Remember it's 2016, this is not the world you grew up in...Hell I don't know.
My motto; "Don't have a kid if you can't support it's morphine habit."
Or cancer, or Zika, or freakin Mickey Mantle's disease.
Of course my mothers entire side of the family all had kids before they were 22....they're not the most stable i'm sure, but I know they've at least got a good foundation..values and shit. That's not gonna stop life though...and in life, you gotta be prepared for anything and everything.
So seriously, be PREPARED for this kid to be fucked up...think zika virus. Prepare to go bankrupt treating the Zika virus..prepare to be homeless...even if you won't be, just plan for the absolute fucking worst 18-30 years of you're life ahead of you. Because if you're not at least prepared....then you won't know what to do when life throws a curveball. And you will be overwhelmed...especially with an opiate addiction on top of all of this.
Good luck to you and the family
