Testing Frequency Towards the End of Contract

I'm TPAPN, 44 days left. Final year, I have been tested mostly once a month. Two times I was tested 10 to 13 days apart. Cap here in stepdown is 18 and I'm at 16. The pattern is pretty predictable. I went 41 days without testing. Tested late May and was expecting to test yesterday which I did. If the pattern holds, I will test late June again and then probably quickly another in the first or second week of June as I'm done the third week.

For 5 years I’ve been twice a month P, averaging every other week, give or take a few days. Nothing too shocking. There was a period where I got hit 4 times in a 9 calendar day period, with one being some stupid ‘special’ test du jour (also more $$, of course) for what I don’t know or care.

Last year we were told “we may notice and increase in testing...blah, blah, blah....” Like yeah, notice? Can I help but not? There was no legitimate explanation for this other than maybe profits were down for the quarter. Basically they added extra expensive blood testing. Rather invasive in my opinion.

I’m so close to the end, I can see that bottle of soy sauce and the everything bagel. I recently got slammed WEEKLY for 6 weeks running. I don’t care what garbage statistics they want to spout about relapse rates (irrelevant for me, since I am mental health anyway) who in the hell, after making it this far, would do ANYTHING that would keep them in this sewer a minute longer.

I try real hard not to analyze it because I know there’s no sense to this or anything else they do, but I do know damn well that there’s nothing random about it. Just keep counting those days.....

Catsmeow, love the soy sauce comment because I am right there with you. Chinese food drenched in soy sauce. Today, I'm going fishing, mosquitoes are bad this spring. I'm using a lovely fragrance of Basil all over me. Can't wait to be able to spray myself with insect spray.

????I could really stand for this to be over. I had mild kidney issues going into this crap and 5 years worth of doing pee pee dances and remaining chronically dehydrated, today, earned me a very stern lecture from my doc. Why now? Well, doing that is giving my kidneys a pounding and according to my lab values, frankly hurting my health. Does anyone think this stupid program cares? Nope. I don’t think so either.

Cats, me too with the kidney issues. I wonder how many of us are afflicted by this collateral damage.

The whole testing "pattern" is a mystery to me. I've been as long as 6 weeks (I think) without being pee-tested but that was followed by a PETH test. Recently, I was tested twice in 4 days. Why who knows. I constantly worry about the false positive as there is no way I'd consider indulging in anything until I have paper in hand saying I'm done with this charade but I guess that's outta my hand. I don't doubt that some vested interests out there want to amp up the pee-testing to line their own pockets but that seems to go with the program here.

On 6/4/2019 at 4:00 AM, Kel65 said:

I'm TPAPN, 44 days left. Final year, I have been tested mostly once a month. Two times I was tested 10 to 13 days apart. Cap here in stepdown is 18 and I'm at 16. The pattern is pretty predictable. I went 41 days without testing. Tested late May and was expecting to test yesterday which I did. If the pattern holds, I will test late June again and then probably quickly another in the first or second week of June as I'm done the third week.

When did they tell you how many tests you’d be getting? I’ve never gotten that info.

Mine is/was supposedly (I don’t believe a ***** thing regarding this, at least mine anyway) “24-27 times per year. This was in the little ‘book ‘o rules’ that we have to follow yet the program can loosely interpret at their pleasure. Anyhow, I digress. This was pretty much the routine, until last year when we were all told that ‘we may notice (notice??!!, Hah!) an increase in toxicology testing as it was a valuable (to who, I wonder?) tool to our recovery, apparently even for those who had nothing to recover from. SMDH. Yah, whatever. I’m currently at 15 for the year and it’s only the end of June. I guess they are trying to get them all in before the end or something.

58 days to go.....are we there yet, are we there yet........

West Texas nurse. It states in the quarterly board reports. It states in the program fine print. Graduates have confirmed it. And if you're on good terms with your caseworker she will tell you when you're eligible for step down.