Checking test results?

If I stopped drinking alcohol, I stopped checking.  No need to care about that.  I still drink NA beers, 0.5% beers, use hand sanitizer, eat whatever I want, use perfume/cologne and use alcohol mouthwash and still don't check results anymore because I know that's not enough for a positive test.

After being in monitoring for a year or more, people probably stop checking.  (Unless they continue to sneak in drinks here and there).

Universe93B said:

If I stopped drinking alcohol, I stopped checking.  No need to care about that.  I still drink NA beers, 0.5% beers, use hand sanitizer, eat whatever I want, use perfume/cologne and use alcohol mouthwash and still don't check results anymore because I know that's not enough for a positive test.

After being in monitoring for a year or more, people probably stop checking.  (Unless they continue to sneak in drinks here and there).

The cut off is 20 ng/ ml. I don't eat Chinese food because soy sauce could have alcohol, don't eat good Italian food because the sauce could have alcohol, don't use hand sanitizer etc. I hate beer so I wouldn'tdtink that anyway.  I'm probably too cautious but I'm finally down to my lasr few months and I just want this to be over . Never in my life has time moved so slowly. 

Healer555 said:

The cut off is 20 ng/ ml. I don't eat Chinese food because soy sauce could have alcohol, don't eat good Italian food because the sauce could have alcohol, don't use hand sanitizer etc. I hate beer so I wouldn'tdtink that anyway.  I'm probably too cautious but I'm finally down to my lasr few months and I just want this to be over . Never in my life has time moved so slowly. 

LOL, I know I know, we've had this conversation so many times but you're too nervous!   I've had sushi drenched in soy sauce, a 0.5% beer and various Italian food the night before a urine ETG/ETS test with low limits for professional health monitoring and they were all negative.   But you've come this far and the last few months so what's another few months of crazy avoiding LOL 

Universe93B said:

LOL, I know I know, we've had this conversation so many times but you're too nervous!   I've had sushi drenched in soy sauce, a 0.5% beer and various Italian food the night before a urine ETG/ETS test with low limits for professional health monitoring and they were all negative.   But you've come this far and the last few months so what's another few months of crazy avoiding LOL 

Exactly.  I can watch drink and be merry in a few long months.  

I'm so paranoid as my monitoring agreement comes to an end that I get gas only on days that I don't test. I check at least 5x a day to make sure I checked in. They would set it back to 2 years so no " risky eating" for me. 

Have you had the low alcohol content beer before a peth test? 

Healer555 said:

Exactly.  I can watch drink and be merry in a few long months.  

I'm so paranoid as my monitoring agreement comes to an end that I get gas only on days that I don't test. I check at least 5x a day to make sure I checked in. They would set it back to 2 years so no " risky eating" for me. 

Have you had the low alcohol content beer before a peth test? 

You are WAY too paranoid!  You change up your gas station routine for tests?  How on earth would gasoline vapors get into your bloodstream from just filling up your car?

I've drank NA beers or 0.5% daily and had Peths - all negative.   0.5% beer is not enough to trigger a urine etg, so it would not create Peth.  Peth is only created when the BAC goes up and not at measurable levels with NA beer.  

Universe93B said:

You are WAY too paranoid!  You change up your gas station routine for tests?  How on earth would gasoline vapors get into your bloodstream from just filling up your car?

I've drank NA beers or 0.5% daily and had Peths - all negative.   0.5% beer is not enough to trigger a urine etg, so it would not create Peth.  Peth is only created when the BAC goes up and not at measurable levels with NA beer.  

If a drop of gasoline gets on my skin.... gasoline has ethanol. I'm not cut out for a monitoring agreement.  People have claimed they had a false positive from pumping gas. 

Healer555 said:

If a drop of gasoline gets on my skin.... gasoline has ethanol. I'm not cut out for a monitoring agreement.  People have claimed they had a false positive from pumping gas. 

No, that doesn't happen.  And people can claim it, but it doesn't mean it's true.  Those people drank alcohol and that's why the test was positive.

People are avoiding entire genres of food and not pumping gasoline because they think it will cause a positive ETG test?  Wow, this is insane people!  Yes, monitoring sucks and we all become paranoid but this is another level.  

You know those people who have a positive test and they say something like, "Oh, I used hand sanitizer at work" or they may say "Oh, I used too much hairspray this weekend and that's why I tested positive."   You know those people?  They are lying.  They had a drink and unfortunately, had to take a urine ETG close to the drinking episode.

PassportCruiser said:

People are avoiding entire genres of food and not pumping gasoline because they think it will cause a positive ETG test?  Wow, this is insane people!  Yes, monitoring sucks and we all become paranoid but this is another level.  

You know those people who have a positive test and they say something like, "Oh, I used hand sanitizer at work" or they may say "Oh, I used too much hairspray this weekend and that's why I tested positive."   You know those people?  They are lying.  They had a drink and unfortunately, had to take a urine ETG close to the drinking episode.

Why would people lie here? It's a anonymous 

 Just counting the days til I'm back to a normal life 

I check just to make sure it got there and tested. I haven't used anything or drank alcohol so I'm not worried about that- more so afraid the urine will get lost LOL

Nursrcy00901 said:

I check just to make sure it got there and tested. I haven't used anything or drank alcohol so I'm not worried about that- more so afraid the urine will get lost LOL

If that happens you just need to show your chain of custody form. You don't get penalized  

Nursrcy00901 said:

I check just to make sure it got there and tested. I haven't used anything or drank alcohol so I'm not worried about that- more so afraid the urine will get lost LOL

No offense, but you actually do NOT need to make sure it "got there and got tested." Not only is that Not your responsibility, its Illegal for you to have ANYTHING to do with the specimen After the bag is sealed and you get the Chain of Custody form in your hand, because at that very moment of you receiving the COC form in your hand, you LEGALLY relinquish chain of custody of the specimen. 

What do you need to be sure of? Make sure the COC form is correctly filled out. For example, did the lab tech forget to check the temperature in range box and the split specimen box? Believe it or not, that part is your responsibility, because if the COC form is wrong, you simply have them do it again on the spot Before you leave the testing area. But you have ZERO responsibility for the "transport" or "shipment or mailing" of the specimen and then making sure the lab technician 3 states or 10 states away from you actually tests it.