It has taken me a very long time to gain enough courage to ask this very important question. I figured that everyone in here is a friend of mine and they wont judge me because of my past. Ok here I go.... Before I got pregnant I was heavy into drugs I smoked weed everyday and on the weekends I would roll on ecstasy, smoke embombing fluid, trip on acid or drink liquid codeine with juice until intoxicated. A few weeks before I conceived the funniest thing happened to me, every time I would do any drug except weed I would become violentley ill. I dont know if it was an act of god but it sure has saved my first born. I continued to smoke until I found out that I was pregnant and went cold turkey. The thing is that last summer I had a deadly reaction to some drug I had ingested and I was rushed to the hospital. I stopped breathing and flat lined on the table and the doctors brought me back by repeated compressions and c.P.R. Three of my ribs were broken and I was given vicodin for the pain. I became addicted to it and my grandmother fed my habit by replenishing my stash that was supposed to be for both my mom and i.I recently got over my addiction but im afraid the damage is done. My question is if anyone knows if past drug use or the use of vicodin during your pregnancy can damage my unborn fetus permanently. My doctor has told me that pregnant women are sometimes prescribed vicodin but my guilt is over bearing and I feel I have not done enough to ensure the health on my child by educating myself of the effects of my addiction. Does anyone know?