A bizarre question

[NeoPediRN]

I'm sick right now with a fever and severe sore throat/earache. I went to the doctor today and strep was negative but the NP said it could be paraflu since it's going around my work. The only thing that helps is 800mg of ibuprofen. Last night I took one (or what I thought was one). I went to take another one today but as I pulled it out of the bottle I realized I was holding a much smaller pill than what an 800mg is. I looked up the #s on it and it was a vicodin (I obviously didn't take it, I put it back in the bottle)!! I looked at the bottle and saw it was my fiance's old prescription bottle of vicodin that had ibuprofen mixed in. Now I'm not sure if I took a vicodin or ibuprofen last night. I was so out of it from pain and exhaustion (it was 4am) that I don't think I would've realized the difference. However, percocet makes me REALLY itchy to the point where I can't take it (or any narcs really) and though I've never had vicodin I'm thinking it would probably do the same thing.

My whole point to this is that I have two interviews coming up. If they drug test me, what happens? Am I screwed? Would they even believe me (I realize this sounds weird)? I would be devastated to miss out on my dream career opportunity because of a stupid mistake like this! I would absolutely take a polygraph or whatever they needed me to, but it's just such a weird story that I'm afraid they wouldn't believe me.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

employers seldom hire at the interview. sometimes they don't hire for weeks afterward. then even after they hire, sometimes it takes time for the drug test to happen. put the worry out of your mind about the pill.

about the poppy seed thing. that's a myth. you'd have to eat lots of poppy seed for any to show as opiate on a drug test. i'm living proof of it. i was going to see a client and stopped at a restaurant for lunch. my sandwich was covered with poppy seeds. i'd say there were over a tablespoon of seeds on it. then, between the restaurant and the client's home i got into an accident. since i was on company time i had to have a drug test. this was about 2 hours after i ate. it showed nothing. i asked the person doing the testing about the poppy seed worry. she said it's just a myth, unless you eat bundles of them.

mythbusters did this ..........

the discovery channel program mythbusters [color=#36414d]put the poppy seed claim to the test, feeding mythbuster adam an enitre loaf of poppyseed cake and jamie three poppy seed bagels. tests were administered every half hour, and adam tested positive after the first test. jamie was slower, taking two hours to test positive after eating the bagels. both tested positive for the remainder of the day, but were clean the next morning, 18 hours later. myth status: confirmed

and very short lived......:lol2: