This is so weird I have no clue how this happened.. any ideas??
I had shoulder surgery on 8/29 through workmans comp. I injured myself lifting patients at work. I had SLAP repair with cyst decompression, debridement (sp?) of frayed rotator cuff, and AC joint decompression (part of collar bone at AC joint cut off). This was done under general anaesthesia. These are the meds I KNOW I was given .. clonazepam 1 mg before surgery, IV versed before nerve block, IV fentanyl 100 mcg and IV dilaudid 2 mg after surgery, IV Benadryl after, Oral Oxycodone after surgery. I have no clue what I was given during surgery.
Well ill of course I was picked for UDS that day.. so my Boyfriend drove me to the clinic and I miserably hobbled in and did the test about 6-7 hours after surgery.
I just checked and that screen and it was negative. How on Earth could it have possibly been negative after all of those meds I was given????
I am am completely stumped!!!
Any ideas? Has this happened to anyone? I do know I never test positive for dilaudid for some reason.. but the rest should have shown up!?!?
(if anyone is wondering, I've been given dilaudid scripts several times this year.. I've had a rough year. Just in the last MONTH I've had 3 surgeries (1 emergent), a root canal, and 3 trips to the ER. The emergent surgery was for a very severe oral abscess that went from my Cheek bone down my throat. I had a severe infection with 2 plus weeks of fevers up to 104.7 and constant rigors. My kidneys and liver started shutting down due to severe dehydration as well. It's been pretty awful).
If I had that much going on in that short of an amount of time, I'd be making darn sure they had every last bit of paper faxed to them ASAP that justified why and how you were given whatever. I'd also be keeping copies of such and responses and dates and so forth. I've not got time to wonder why they may or may not think something is or is not okay†at any given moment in time. I gotta wonder why, with all that and the fact that you are clearly not even working, why are they even bothering to make you test, knowing full well that it's going to be positive for a number of things. Oh yeah....the money....silly me....I forgot....
The whole testing thing drives me nutz. I don't worry about me drinking or drugging on purpose. I have no desire to stay in this program 1 second longer than necessary and don't want to give them an excuse to sentence me to more "treatment". Nor can I afford to simply walk away from my livelihood (I wish I could I'd never subject myself to this idiocy). I worry about false positives. Despite the uber-high costs we get charged to check our pee for anything from Benadryl to heroin I hear many reports of false positives which lead to even more pricey testing to prove the lab was wrong. I also worry about ingesting something inadvertently which will show up on a DAU. If I had to do extra time I'm not sure I could. If I had to go back to rehab I'd work in Wally World. Nothing is worth that wholesale stupidity
catsmeow1972, BSN, RN
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If I had that much going on in that short of an amount of time, I'd be making darn sure they had every last bit of paper faxed to them ASAP that justified why and how you were given whatever. I'd also be keeping copies of such and responses and dates and so forth. I've not got time to wonder why they may or may not think something is or is not okay†at any given moment in time. I gotta wonder why, with all that and the fact that you are clearly not even working, why are they even bothering to make you test, knowing full well that it's going to be positive for a number of things. Oh yeah....the money....silly me....I forgot....