False positive peth

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I am 4 months away from completing my 5 year RNP agreement and am now living a nightmare. I had a peth test Tuesday and received a notification in my Affinity app at 11pm last night that it was positive. There is absolutely, positively no way as I have t drank in almost 5 years. Has anyone had a positive result posted when they were actually negative? I'm assuming this has to be human error. Although I'm not sure who enters the results into affinity. If anyone had had a similar experience please help, I'm trying not to lose it!

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Oh no. I'm so sorry.  Seems all states are different.  Where I live they can send it out for

 

confirmation via gas chromatography test and if it's still positive if you were to remember "Oops. I ate something with alcohol  or used mouthwash " they would forgive it  if there were no prior false positive tests. They don't accept a false positive without explanation in my state

.Someone else here who had a false positive here just had it forgiven without an "Oops, I uses mouthwash,  if I get a false positive peth I'll definitely be remembering I accidentally used mouthwash but that's in my state. I hope you get thus figured out. So close. I fear false positive tests. 

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Unfortunately my state is brutal, they show no mercy! I'm just hoping the result was entered into affinity incorrectly. Why would they be posting results at 11pm?

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Jtc4583 said:

Unfortunately my state is brutal, they show no mercy! I'm just hoping the result was entered into affinity incorrectly. Why would they be posting results at 11pm?

They should have enough to retest though. They take 2x as much urine and  blood as needed for retest if needed.

Hopefully it was entered in error and you can prove it. 

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Any chance of uti or yeast infection?

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I get frequent utis but this is a blood test, a peth so I don't think that would have any effect

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Jtc4583 said:

I get frequent utis but this is a blood test, a peth so I don't think that would have any effect

Will they let you prove it was an error by doing a hair or nail test? 

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I am not a fan of the PeTH test. Here is a link to some recent research on the sensitivity to the test. It is archaic and shouldn't be used absolutely for us at this point:

https://www.mdpi.com/2297-8739/9/9/250

I would ask for additional testing by hair or nail for confirmation of your compliance.

Best of luck!

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Argue it. It detects for up to 28 days after last use. Also ask the chain of command and why did you get results at 11p. Also talk to your OCP about what could have caused it. Hand sanitizer, alcohol wipes etc

JillRN said:

Argue it. It detects for up to 28 days after last use. Also ask the chain of command and why did you get results at 11p. Also talk to your PCP about what could have caused it. Hand sanitizer, alcohol wipes etc

 

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Unfortunately my state is brutal, they show no mercy! I'm just hoping the result was entered into affinity incorrectly. Why would they be posting results at 11pm?

Does anyone know the process for how results are entered into Affinity? I am praying this was just human error.

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Our peth tests aren't the finger prick blood spot tests, they actually draw blood. Of course I will argue this into the ground and do whatever I can, I just hope I don't even have to go there because it just sounds awful and there's no winning with the Louisiana state board.

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I'm pretty sure they will retest. Breathe.. I can imagine it being nerve wrecking especially knowing you have maintained abstinence. I pray for the best outcome they do make mistakes and a false positive can also happen just like dilutes 

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