What changed?

[markko]

I took two years off from monitoring to make a little money to resume testing. A month ago, I resumed monitoring and testing. In the past, I was on tramadol and every test report came back positive (excused) for it. Between the time I stopped monitoring and resumed it a month ago, I started taking Concerta XL for ADHD and fentanyl patches for chronic shoulder pain, which the BON monitor is aware of. I was worried about having every test come back positive (excused), again, but the two tests I've had both came back negative.

I wonder if FirstLab (now FirstSource) was informed of my prescription controlled meds and don't consider them in the testing. Anyone know about that?

[StillRN]

I use that lab too. I take clonazepam, but only sometimes test positive confirmed. Mostly negatives. I don't think they even know your prescriptions at the lab. I know they just result mine and my monitor gets the result and makes sure it's prescribed. I've had him check while I was on the phone (after telling me to fax in my scripts so he could check my positive screen). I've wondered many times how I keep testing negative too. I once tested negative on the same day as having surgery and multiple opiates and benzo's. They didn't know about any of those meds or the surgery at the time.