False Negative Test For Methadone (Page 3) (Top voted first)

I am taking 80mg of Methadone daily for pain control. For the past two months it is not showing up in my urine or blood when it always had in the past. I am frightened because now I question what the pharmacy has been giving me. I have felt less relief of my pain over the past two months, but I would have gone into withdrawal if the medicine was not Methadone. help, I need answers. If it isn't showing up it looks as if I am not taking it, which I am. I truly cannot without pain control. Thanks, hoping for some insight.

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Isn't the DEA monitoring peoples use of pain medications and obstruction of our privacy? Medical information is highly sensitive and NO one has a right to your information besides you and your dr. We should all sue them under a class action law suit. This monitoring system they set up to see what we get, when we get it and watching to see if we dr. shop. Listen to this one, I had a serious abscessed tooth and went to the emergency rm. This was during the time my dr. of 2 yrs. suddenly dropped me telling me he no longer was taking my ins. I even offered to pay cash but the S.O.B. still wouldn't. I think when they do this they are being investigated so they weed out their patients! Anyway this b***** dr. lady at the E.R. comes in and looks at my tooth and then say's I'll be right back, she comes back screaming as loud as she could "YOU'RE a Pain Med seeker!! You're already ON Oxycontin & Hydrocodone!! The ER was packed, I could hear her telling the nurses, she gets 150 Roxys and 120 Hydrocodone EVERY MONTH, I mean as LOUD as she could!! I walked out and stopped at the counter she was at and said " I didn't ask for those meds, My dr. prescribed those meds because I have spondolothesis, a fracture, stenosis, scoliosis and arthritus!! I said I don't EVEN TAKE them anymore!! I mean I seriously was in the worst pain, you can't get any help anymore because of the effing government, may as well just throw in the towel. This b**** definitely infringed upon my medical privacy and I did call the hosp. and report her, I was so upset I was sobbing on the phone, so hurt and felt like a piece of dirt. No one would ever believe all the crap I've been through in my life. NO one would believe half of it, it's too much for any human to endure the crap I have. I don't want pity I try to remain strong but sometimes I just breakdown and don't even know why I'm here anymore. My children are what keep me going. Thank God for them.

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I'm in a liquid methadone clinic. I've been there for 2 weeks and my last two drug tests have been negative. And the crazy thing is, I dose everyday in font of a nurse and camera, except for Sunday I get my take home and take it at 5 am. I don't understand...

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I take my methadone exactly as prescribed for chronic pain. I have never missed a dose and yet my urine tests come back negative. The pain is not relieved either. Any idea why it disappears in my system?

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I've been going to a methadone clinic for almost three years. I took a mouth swab drug test for a job last week and the methadone didn't show up in the test. Is this normal?

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Thank you for your response. I really have not changed anything in my life so that the methadone would not show. I do have a high metabolisme, for example my normal temperature is 100 degrees. I am unable to gain weight easily. I do drink a great deal of tea therefore, I have to use the bathroom frequently. The other meds I am on are Celexa and phenobarbital for a seizure disorder. I haev not taken more than has been prescribed of my medications and I am at a loss. Is it the lab, the pharmacy or my metabolism? I am at aloss as to how to prove that I am taking the methadone. I told my doctor I will take it in front of him if need be. All I want is and answer. The two months the tests came up negative I had a substatial amount of pain, more than usual. I have RSD and without medication I cannot walk. I asked the pharmacist if she knew why the tests are coming back negative and she had no clue. This month when I filled the prescription I noted within seven days more relief than I had been getting in two months. I cannot believe that a pharmacy would not give me the correct medicine. But now I have doubts. I will have another urine done on August 3rd when I see the doctor. I am totally baffled and don't know what I can do to resolve this issue.

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Well Doc, if you read my letter then why after 16 years would this doctor do this without retesting me or giving me the benefit of the doubt! Do you have any idea of the pain and agony this doctor has caused me? and I am still going through it! I feel worthless and am depressed all the time now, I still am not getting proper care and the expense I have endured since this started.. well put it this way I have never been in the hole so bad since this has happened, if this doctor drug tested me with out my knowledge and did an in proper test causing false results why shouldn't he be responsible for my loss! HE WAS MY DOCTOR FOR 16 YEARS! and he just kicked me to the curb! This has nothing to do with what your saying it is a moral issue and that doctor should pay for what he is doing to me! although I have not got legal help yet because I do not like the idea of suing a doctor and to be honest with you I don't know if I have the strength to go through it but if I don't start getting proper treatment soon I will have no choice.

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