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Quest Options 4-6

I am just curious about this. I have been in TPAPN for over 2.5 years now and I have never been selected for Quest Diagnostics options 4-6. I am wondering if they are just different urine panels or hair, nails, blood? Has anyone ever been selected for these?

Btw I have seen the Quest website and their HPPV panels I-VI, but I wasn't sure if this was referring to the options on the COC form.

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I had an option 4 just about a month ago. It was the first time I'd had that one in 20 months of testing. It was a urine test.

I don't know for sure if the Quest panels HPP I-VI actually compare directly to the COC form's options. Someone recently posted here about that, and I think they said yes, they do, but I'm not sure if they were just assuming or what. That post is recent, I think the subject was "RecoveryTrek option 6" if you scroll down a ways you should find it.

All are etg except option 1, From option 2 more and more drugs are included. Option 3 adds cough syrup ingredients and more narcotics. option 4 includes all that and even more narcotics, Ambien and benadryl. Option 5 is the mother load and tests for Everything​ including over the counter banned meds, different classes of ant-psychotics,anti depressants. Option 6 has all of the above as well as drugs that are used in the OR. IE, from option 1 down more is added.

No not assuming that is from the lab

No, affinity uses special panels. That are different from quests general options as shown in the link. Option 4 test etg, over the counters, anti depressents and a ton of other stuff not listed in the link.

How do you know they are all ETG?

I am not going to post that in a public forum, but I know beyond a shadow of doubt that optional 1 is ethanol and everything else on down is etg. Second to my acquired knowledge of what the options are, I am only tested with options 2 -4 due to false positives on option 1 ethanol. So yes, I know.

I usually just go by price. I'm in recovery for Opiates, as are most of the people in my group. We have a few Alkies, a few pot heads. And one Ambien person... We all get the $55 urine MOST of the time. There's an $80 urine the Ambien person gets. The pEth is $109. The Nails are $200+ and the hair is $300. My advice is always the same: they are going to catch you. I don't know how all the different panels break down, but there's going to be a baseline of commonly abused drugs in all of them ( imo and it's what makes sense ). They are always going to test me for opiates, it's my DOC. Alcohol is probably always going to be thrown in, it's the easiest to get. The rest must be some crazy low baser **** like spice, sudafed, whatever.

Yep, cough syrup, Sudafed and Benadryl are in the options. You cheat, and it will catch up to you, that's the bottom line. Only temptation I've ever had was to take a Benadryl after a bad allergic reaction. I didn't do, damn glad. Got pulled for option 4 next day. That had Benadryl on the panel. I believe there's someone here that got busted for Benadryl.

I am REALLY looking forward to the day I can take something for my allergies. My head is stuffed up near constantly from whatever is blooming. It wasn't near as miserable when I worked in the hospital because I was inside most of the time. Claritin is apparently okay to take but it doesn't do much for me. Ditto with Allegra. I need the occasional D component. Ugh!

Back when I was sentenced to that hellish inpatient stint, I went to thier little pseudo clinic (the one that refused to treat my hypertension) complaining of the same thing. Guess what they gave me? Yep, Allegra D.

I suppose I could get my doc to write me a script for the stuff but I would rather not open that can of worms. I've dealt with it this long. I'll keep doing it. But I will NOT do it longer over a flipping benedryl.

I've got a crazy idea to beat this thing. I'm posting to get feedback on whether this will work.

Why not freeze some of my "clean" urine and use it when I get tested? Easy to transfer to a test tube I can keep under my arm or whatever for an hour to get it to the right temp. They test me approximately once a week. Occasionally they ask for it to be "observed"... I can just cath it back into my bladder, right? I'm a nurse, obviously, and female, so not squeamish about sticking stuff up there. Throw out and update my freezer specimen monthly or so.

I think it's just crazy enough to work! Looking forward to your thoughts.

Can anybody say for sure if Quest (lab) option 1 panel is the same as Recovery Trek option 1 panel?

If you look up Quest option 1 (easy on their website), it does not include etoh, or etg, or anything about alcohol at all!

The woman who does the collection says that the monitoring program sends it to the most "sensitive lab" in the country... and that's Quest?? It's a Quest lab slip and she confirmed that it goes to Quest.

My "diagnosis" does not include etoh, they're just asking me to be abstinent because they're assholes!

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