Took A Drug Test At My Doctors For Suboxone And It Showed Negative - Please Help

I had a drug test with my suboxone doctor the other day and he called and kicked me off the program because the suboxone did not show up on my drug test, but i have been taking suboxone for 3 years and cannot go without it and i took suboxone the morning of the drug test. How is it possible it would not show up?

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Hi Scott,

Did you have any other medications, substances, or specific food with the suboxone that could interact with its absorption?

Also, do you notice how long it usually takes to kick in after you've taken it?

From an outside perspective, I can only imagine that if you took it with a full meal (high in fat or calories) that the pill may not have been digested and assimilated until hours after you took the pill. Fat can significantly slow down your metabolism in the presence of carbohydrates, so this is the first thing that comes to my mind in this situation, depending on what you ate or took with it.

Is it possible for you to get retested?

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it kicks in pretty quick it had been about 8 hours after i took when i had the drug test. i just ate a bunch of fried food before the drug test though. My doctor is refusing to ever see me again he thinks i was not taking the suboxone which is so untrue i cant go a day without it. I had the same thing happen a few years back i got a random drug test at work and smoked marajuana the night before and passed the test. I dont knw what is going on

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You should of asked for another test cauze some times their r bad ones and will show a false pos or neg. but it should show up I tested positive for 2 weeks after I stopped taking it. And worst case just go to a new sub doc.

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The same thing just happened to me. I take 4 M g suboxone every day and took a drug rest last eek that came back negative for sub. This is impossible and makes no sense whatever. I an going to lose my take home priveledges when I've done nothing wrong.help please

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The did just did the same f***ing thing and I dunno why it is impossible ur test didn't show ul I take the subs every f***ing day, but if I fail for opiates its okay

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The exact thing is happening to me!! I have been on suboxone for almost 4 yrs. and suddenly the suboxone is NOT showing up on my monthly urine drug test. This med. has saved my life and I am afraid my doc. is going to take me off of it. I take my med. EXACTLY as prescribed nut the test result is showing negative. PLEASE HELP ME figure out what is happening!!!

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Make sure you are drinking very little caffeine, not smoking too many cigarettes, and most of all, make sure you are not sweating too much throughout the day. All of these things can be attributed to showing a negative result for Suboxone and/or Methadone. I have been going to a Methadone/Suboxone clinic for a year now and have met numerous people with the same issue. Here, they don't kick you out, they just take away your take-home privileges away...which sucks too, but not nearly as much as getting kicked out would. I was on 110mg of Methadone and still wasn't stable, so I did a "Peak & Trough" Test which shows your medication levels throughout the day. I would suggest those of you who are testing negative for medications that you know you are taking to inquire about a Peak & Trough. Here in Indiana it cost $10 and was well worth it as it allowed me the opportunity to go up an additional 20mg. Good luck! I'd be so upset to deal with that problem!!!

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I texted negative for suboxone and I have been taking it for almost 3 weeks now. Since I have started this medication my life has improved 100%. I feel like I have my old self back, my children have their mother back, my parents have their daughter back and my husband has his wife back. I can not afford to lose this medication. Does anyone know what can cause a false negative for suboxone in a urine drug screen?

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Exactly what SWIM has been saying and no one listens.
The Sub screeners will show if:
- a person taking Sub or
- if a person is only taking it periodically aka how your body metabolizes it.

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I did some research on dip stick type testing of subs and found it to be highly unreliable. By drinking fluids and clearing the bladder a few times is enough to dilute the sample. I believe the long half life has something to do with it. It's slowly secreting metabolizes into urine rather than quickly. Slowly means smaller amounts. Add the ingested fluids clearing ones bladder a few times and metabolites are underectable.

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Corrected my email address for my earlier post/question

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I took 4mg of klonopin on Tuesday and 2mg of klonopin on Wednesday. This is the first time I have taken them in months, I do not regularly take them. Do you think they will show up on a drug test on this coming Tuesday?

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I went to my sub doctor today and they said it came back negative for subs which I know for 200% that is not possible, when I asked to see my test they would not show me! They kicked me out and kept my $250! Are they aloud to not show me the actual test when I ask to see it?

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Have u gotten any answers? What happened?

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NO!!! they cant be witheld completely! request your records and test results in writing. drugAll Tests are fallible and often are wrong. aim to not receive your letter.Request certified letter so nthey have to sign for it if tghey clin writing No your own records are yoursk for both patient copy and a c drs copy which is written up differently. Say you want to bring in person the Dr copy to your new(though nonexistsant) Dr. they might charge u to b a jerk,

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My first suboxone dr apt is tues. I am taking vicodin because i cant find subs on the street right now i take xanax by script and i have a med marijuana card. So i wil test pos for these three things. Shouls this be an issue for my drug screen when i go on tues?

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Yes. They are a benzo and they stay in your system for up to 14 days even if you don't take them regularly. Maybe even longer depending on your body type and metabolism. People who are heavy set can test positive for it was past the 14 day mark as benzos are stored in your fat cells a lot like marijuana.

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I've had the same problem recently . Been on sub for over two years and never had an issue til recently. I always take everything as prescribed. I go every two weeks and have now had FIVE,yes FIVE, drug tests that have not had sub in it. I had three ttests in a row with none and then passed one, then two more none. My doctor is going to kick me off the program next visit if I don't have sub in my system. I'm freaking out bc I can't explain it. It's mind blowing to me. He did a blood test to check my kidneys and liver to make sure that isn't effecting anything. He said He's trying to give me as many "CHANCES" as he can...But I'm not doing anything wrong. I know these doctors hear all kinds of BS every day but I'm not lying. I don't know what to do

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I would pop it out of the package (or bottle) if you are one of the lucky f**kers that still get tablets and take it right in front of him and say ok now I will come back tomorrow and you can run the test again. That is what I would do that way he/she says to him/herself (damn self I saw him take it the day before so I guess my machine or testing equipment or lab that I am sending it to is fuc*ed up and is sending false positives back) I don't know about you but that would be the way that I would handle that situation.

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I have been on subutex & colazepam for years, along w some muscle relazers & other medications. My doc gives me random tests & I was unable to pee the last time I was in the office, so my next visit I made sure to drink lots of liquids & an additional 5 cups of water at the office, to make sure I would be able to pee. I also take a variety of herbal remedies. I wanted to make sure I could pee, so she didnt think I was trying to duck out of the test, I have nothing to hide & take my medicine religiously. Anyway, I took the test & was then called & told they didnt a more expansive test & she would no longer be able to prescribe for me bc the clonazepam came up negative. Idk if the subutex came out negative too, no one told me,bt Im guessing it didnt show either.This is insane & I have no idea why my meds arent showing. Im freaking out bc Im very ill & must hv my medicine to function at all. Even w my medication, I am at a 6-7 pain level, bt I can manage that. Ive done NOTHING wrong & am so stressed. Where I live, it is very difficult to find a doc & was so thankful to find her. I thought we had a good relationship & was the 1 area in my life I had some consistancy. She is very strict & so I doubt she'll even listen to me, bt I have a meeting w her tomorrow, to try to discuss this with her. Can you give me any advice on how to handle this or what may be going on?

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Any info or advice PLEASE!!! I have been on Suboxone for 4 years. I can't get off it because I do need something to help with pain. Here's my problem: About a year ago my doctor started giving me mouth swab tests because the laws have changed here in the state of Tennessee where Suboxone could no longer be written for pain, only for opioid dependency, which I was cool with. My problem is the mouth swab test I take every month shows up negative now. My doctor believes me that I am taking it but my insurance is gonna start to give me a hassle thinking I am selling it (says my Dr). I am on three 8mg strips a day. Last month I took one 10 minutes before the test and it was still negative. The few medical problems that I do have that I don't know if they could affect this are gastric bypass and my lower jaw was rebuilt so I wear a bottom denture which is where the test goes. I'm not really sure how the body processes Suboxone but this is going to be a problem for me in the next few months. I took videos of me taking my Suboxone with the timestamp of a newspaper behind my f****** head with the day's date. Well, you know how insurance companies are. Anybody ever heard of anything like this?

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Re: Kim (# 44)

Ask if you can take it in front of a nurse and then return the next day to be tested. I did that and they saw that it didn't show up, so I wasn't kicked off. Good luck.

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Re: Shelby Harmon (# 6)

The same thing is happening to me!! Help what do I Do? I go back next week after they send it to a lab. I can't go without my meds. Suboxone saved my life

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Re: Me (# 42)

I wish I didn't need pain management. I will need it for the rest of my life. I'm allergic to so many other medications and that's why they put me on methadone to begin with. Once I started getting treated like a drug addict I asked my doctor what was an alternative and the only alternative for me was the suboxone. I still get looked at differently when I go into the pharmacy to pick it up because I have lots of tattoos, piercings and colored hair. But the crazy thing is I've never done a drug in my life. I don't even smoke cigarettes or drink. I'm the perfect example for that saying "never judge a book by its cover". If you really want to get off, I suggest you take a little less every few days to wing yourself off. I hope it all works out for you.

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Re: Angel (# 41)

What's crazy is it has only not showed up recently. I asked them if I could do that and they treated me poorly so I left. I have left over meds but i want to try to get off this curse. This is no life

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Re: Damon (# 40)

I was on methadone for 8 years but once I started the Suboxone, it's never showed up in my system. So I asked my doctor if I could come in and take a Suboxone in front of someone, then the next day go back and do a urine test and they let me do it. It's still came up negative for suboxone in my system and they said it's because I metabolize it differently. Thank God that I was on Methadone for pain management and not a drug addiction so my doctor believed me what I was saying and they did not stop by Suboxone prescription. I think you should ask your doctor if you could come in take a Suboxone and then come back the next day to do a urine test to prove that you're not lying.

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I've taken two 8mg subutex a day for about a year. I have never had a dirty drug screen since i started the program, and my levels have never been mentioned. Then i was at the doctor last week and a nurse said my levels had dropped a lot. From 800mg to 167mg. But i am taking the exact same amount. She implied i had not been taking my meds and just took one the day before and selling the rest. It really pissed me off. Never had a failed test. High levels every month. And all of a sudden i stopped taking them and decided to be scarface and sell drugs. I found this thread looking for answers on how this happened.

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Mine has never shown up not one single time. So I asked my doctor if I could come in take the suboxin in front of him then come back the next day and do what urine test. He agreed to that and was shocked to see that it's still was negative. He said my body metabolizes a different. I drink a lot of caffeine and I have a slow metabolism.

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Suboxone has a half life too so 3years being on it then it should definitely show but then again I've heard of this situation happening with people who have fast metabolism

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If they sent the "diluted sample off to a lab, will that fix the issue? So crazy it wouldn't show but I drink like 36 oz of fluid which contains vitamins, caffeine, taurine, etc... It's the only thing I can think of. I'm waiting for lab results which I'm sure are pricey and it's not fair. I'm more than compliant.

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