Buprenorphine Basics (suboxone/subutex) for detox from opiates

[just jen 2010]

I was on 16mg of suboxone when I was pregnant and the orange taste made me throw up because I was so sensitive to things...so my doc put me on subutex (same as suboxone minus the bloker) I was told my baby may or may not be born addicted. He was. Suboxone has such a long half life that on the thrid day when my husband and I took our little bundle of love home, his arms were clenched so rigid they felt like a rock and his fists were clenched and all he did was cry and not sleep. I didn't know what was going on really and after a few hours...my husband insisted the baby was going threw withdrawls so ...i cried and cried then called a center in my area (washington state in USA) and they told me what to do and look for. We had to swaddle him tight like a burritto for 5 or 6 days and held him non stop 24 hours a day. I felt so guilty and horrible I caused this to a little innonicent baby...my doctor never told me what to look for and i felt so fu$kin mad....our little baby is now 15 months old and fine...just spoiled rotten...and I went back to college and am 6 months away from being a licenced chemical dependcy counsler...one of my books is called "uppers, downers, and all arounders" its awsome cause it's like a drug bible...it tells you things about every single drug in the world and stuff doctors do not tell you. I learned suboxone is "50 times stronger than heroin" woooooooowwwww
end of story but what ever drug you do...definately crosses the blood barrier of a childs brain because it is not totally formed untill the age of three....suboxone will get into your unborn childs brain but whatever opiate you do will too.

just jen 2010 added 28 Minutes and 36 Seconds later...

Originally Posted by Mellissa_0202821E_UIR

What are the possible impacts are there to unborn children if a mother abused on Subutex (a controlled drug banned here in Singapore recently)?

MELLISSA 0202821E UIR

I was on 16mg while I was pregnant, and because the brain blood barier in a fetus or child is not fully devoloped untill three years old, the baby gets suboxone to his brain. my child was born addicted. because suboxone has such a long half life (adverge 37 hours to get half way out of your body) on the thrid day we brought our son home and he began to withdrawl. His arms were rock hard and clenched, his hands were tight fists, he liked to be swaddled tight like a burrito, he cried 24 hours a day, and my husband and I held him 24 hours a day. This went on for almost a week and I never felt so guilty in my life..I allready felt like a horrible mother because I did this to him, he didn't get to choose to take suboxone, I forced it on him. He is now 15 months and a healthy baby, and now it''s my turn to kick suboxone.