False Positive On Drug Test At Emergency Room For Cocaine (Top voted first)

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I had a c-section on September 15th and they used a lot of medication in me from the epidural as I stated before b/c I not only had her but got my tube cut and tied as well and could not fell any part of my body from head to feet. I was in extreme pain as I had been on Suboxone for 1 1/2 years and had taken my dose before rushing to the hospital b/c my water had broke at 4:15 am and I made my grand entrance into the hospital at about 5:30 when they had started my IV and got all my paper work out the way. I only stayed in the hospital a total of 2 days b/c I was wanting to come home. They sent me home with 30 Percoet 7.5 and I took them as I was supposed to the best I could, but had to get them to call me in more meds due to the extreme pain so they wrote me 30 percoet 10's which helped me much better with the pain. I finished those pills and before I finished them I got a very bad yeast infection and then they diagnosed me with a Urinary Tract Infection and wrote me these two new meds nitrofurantoin Mono/Mac 100 MG caps and Phenazopyridine 200 MG tabs and on the same day I seen my psychotrist and she put me back on my Lexapro 10 MG, Klonophine 1 MG 2xday for my anxiety and then a mood stabilizer called Depakote 240 MG 2xdaily plus I am already on my Suboxone that I have to take at least 2xdaily. Anyways before using these meds I was using Lidocaine patches on my back b/c I was having a horrible pain as well. I ended up having some types of drug reaction to either one of the medications or all of them together I am not really sire and since i was passing out while inactive and it was scaring all of us and also when I would go to sleep I was hard to wake up they had to pinch me b/c they were scared i had went into coma. Well yesterday after taking my daughter to her doc appointment I told my mom to bring me to the hospital and it had started up again after we ate and this is not normal. They took a lot of blood from me and my urine sample which I gave up without a fight b/c I knew I had nothing in my system. The next thing I know I had fell back asleep and the RUDE YOUNG doctor was telling my mom the only thing they found in my urine was Cocaine and that since I had a "pimple" close to my mouth, which I am bleeding from having the baby it's been there since after I had her, that they was from doing it. Why would he do this to me? He like slapped my foot to wake me up and was very rude to me and said I was so tired from coming down from the Cocaine. AGAIN What The Heck is this..... It's rude and not accurate b/c I had not done any drugs so now he totally ruined my mother and my relationship that we just mended and on my release papers his diagnoses was that I had a substance abuse problem. I cried and cried and no matter what I said my mom would not believe me that I had not touched the stuff. She refused to listen and said all the evidence was there, but to me they did nothing for me. I want to sue the hospital for doing this to me. It was all very wrong and not at all nice or friendly. They didn't even check to see if all the meds I am on could have caused my reaction or be the cause of a drug I have never done much less had i my system could have been from the meds I was on. Now my depression is very low I feel like giving up once again b/c the one person who I love more than my kids thinks I am a bad mother now and we have no relationship once again.I need some serious answers and fast please. Today Is October the 6th. I went to the hospital on the 5th. I need any help opinions on what could be going on or anything.

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Do you know what type of test the hospital did, did they give you any details on it?

The Lidocaine in the patches you were using can cause false positives for Cocaine, because it is a distant relative, but an actual lab test at the hospital would have been able to tell if it was a false positive from it, or if someone actually took cocaine.

Learn more Lidocaine details here.

You could try paying for you own in-depth lab testing to see what results you get.

However, you don't actually have any grounds to win a suit against the hospital.

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I was really very worried that they would try to report me and take my kids from me. I do not actually do cocaine so I have nothing to worry about, but the embarrassment of having to go take a drug test for them to show them that I am clean would be horrible and also when they open a case on you no matter if your Innocent or guilty they leave the case open for 7 years. It is not something I need over a young doctor making a mistake and I really hated the way he treated me. I was sleeping when he came in and he hit my foot to wake me up like I was trash. I will not ever go back there unless it is absolutely 100% no other way I can make it to another hospital. I had just had my daughter in that hospital a week or 2 weeks before and that in its self made me hate that hospital b/c it was a very bad experience. My first child I had at Woman's Hospital that works strictly with babies and it was the best experience. They were night and day from each other.

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I just read on another site that antibiotics can create a false positive! You mentioned you had a uti infection. There's a more detailed test out there called a "gamma" something, I'd look into it if I were you. ;) I'm assuming because of the suboxone they are figuring you are using and lying, which is a shame

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Yes I actually still have the UTI and can not seem to fully get rid of it. I have taken my full dose of "NEW" antibiotics that I received after leaving the hospital being accused of being on drugs. Yes he used that against me, which is a totally bias thing to do to someone. I chose to get prescribed to Suboxone so I could lead a better life for me and my son and now my daughter as well. I also had a pimple on my face, which I had a few on there and he said it was a sign from using and also it was the other antibiotics that I was given that was causing me to pass out while inactive, because ever since I stopped them I am 100% better now. I tore the papers up that he gave me, because his diagnosis on there about me was cocaine usage!! WTH!?! How could he do that I mean your a doctor you should know these things so other people do not have the same issues I did. I was treated like trash and the way they looked at me I could tell he thought he was better than I was and wanted me out as fast as he could get me out.

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Go somewhere else. I had something similar happen and was horrified. They just tossed me out like trash even though I was not on pot. It so happens that I found out later I was on a drug (They knew this) that gives a false positive. They kept me over night because it was a heart issue but they treated me like dirt with the exception of one nurse who recognized that I was actually very ill. I spent the next three months going back to the hospital trying to get help. Turns out my heart was flipping out because I had been battling Salmonella poisoning for three months with it going undiagnosed because they thought I was a drug addict or something. When I started throwing up blood in the Emergency room they finally took me seriously. By that time I had lost 50 pounds and was starving and weak.I thank God that I requested to see a different doctor or I might have died from an ignorant, small minded, holier than thou, and dangerous doctor. Change doctors. If they assign you one you don't trust then tell them. I have refused to use a doctor and they did assign another. I hope you feel better and try not to let an idiot ruin your mood or health. Find a doctor you can get to know and trust so if you have to go to the hospital again you will have someone in the field to speak up for you. Good luck. My heart goes out ot you. By the way....I am 54 and look older yet they still thought "DRUGS!!!"> Your doc and mine have a paranoia problem they should maybe be seeing a psychiatrist to make sure they don't read ever patient incorrectly.

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This has happened to as well ive had 2 UTIs in one month and I'm all kinds of different medications valium for ANXIETY n panic Attacks PTSD lexapro 10 n 20 mgs ,amoxicillin ,phenazopyridine200mg,vicks nasal spray , flonase also premarin and several others and I also drink my mineral water w fresh lemon and orange juice and have used lidocaine patches to help with my back pain from my kidney pain

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