Flexeril and urine drug screen
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The clinic I attend, as do most clinics, require regular urine screens to assure that the meds are being taken properly. I have had two urine screens so far and both have returned negative results for opiates.
My pain level (without medication) on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being most severe, is on average a 9, and with pain medication 3. I take my medication as prescribed, sadly, they are my lifeline, without which I would be unable to function and I ultimately end up virtually bed ridden.
I have a big problem with sleep due to pain. With the Flexeril sleep longer sometimes. A very debilitating drug, but necessary I am afraid. My back is inoperable due to multiple damage sites over the length of the spine. I am stuck with the pain management system for life. I can stay up for up to three days before crashing. Then sleep for a whole day. I try very hard to manage my meds to keep a normal day/night cycle, but I am still in pain. I am never pain free, but I tough it out.
I have been going to the same pm center for 10 years, I have always been compliant. In January i did a random urine drug screen I was hoorified at the results there were drugs in there I have never taken even an illict drug. My name wasnt on the cup it was placed by me in a room where there were several other cups no one checked the temperature. no chain of command.
I started feeling better went I got some vitamins and days
between my nightmare.It hurt for 15 days then the mental **** took over.Thats when I began the vitamins.I felt better on day
21.I have been using since I was 16.I am 44 now.Last 12 years
on hydro,oxy then tapered with methadone.It was harder than anything I have ever done but I can promise it gets better.
Once your body gets something that helps the way you feel,it allows you and your brain to heal also.
I am in the process of looking for a new job. I work in the healthcare field and am subject to drug screening. How long does it take to get these meds out of my system? I know this sounds fishy and I assure you it is not. I have only been taking these meds for a short time, and hope not to have to take them much longer. But, I am concerned. It just takes so long to get an appointment with my primary doctor and to get documentation explaining or verifying the scripts is such a hassel.
I was referred to pain management from my neuro and my new pmd is sending me for a urine drug screen. Reading from my paper, I'm being screened for Amphetamines, Barbiturates, Benzodiazepines, Cannabinoid, Cocaine, Opiates and Phencyclidine. That's it. And they are not using a gas chromotography to test for opoids. For those of you in pain management, is this just a baseline type screening, or are they digging with those?
So, in June of this year, I went in for my scheduled appt. Since the beginning of 2012, random urine drug screens along with another urine test to measure if the correct amount of the prescribed narcotic level is within your urine are of routine now, expected, no less. Ok, I get it, I completely understand the DEA is coming down with guidelines being severely strict on physicians. So, this day was no different. He gives me two months supply of prescriptions and on with my day I went.
This incident made my fibro worse because I was sad alot but I did not want to go on antidpressants because I did not want to be walking around twitching and acting crazy on pysco samatic drugs.
For your own piece of mind I would buy a urine test at the drug store and do it myself as well. The urine tests used to screen for Hydrocodone levels which is the drug you have in the Vicodin 10/325 is the one you will want to make sure to get. You have to read the boxes carefully as they don't all screen for that drug. They aren't very expensive and then you will have the ability to urine screen yourself once and see how the test comes out for yourself.
This incident made my fibro worse because I was sad alot but I did not want to go on antidpressants because I did not want to be walking around twitching and acting crazy on pysco samatic drugs.
If my current script had run out, I have no doubt that he would've written a new one then and there and sent me home.
I had to do a urine screen and sign a pain contract, and then we scheduled some new appointments....and that was it :-). Simple and to the point. And what I had been begging my neurologist to do for 8 years (send me to a plastic surgeon to talk about a breast reduction) my PM doctor did on the FIRST visit. I was very happy.
A few months ago, I had really bad neck pain on the left, along with a lump behind my ear and had an Xray, which of course was negative. My PCP said it was muscle strain and gave me Flexeril and Iburofen. The pain went away, lump is still there, but of course nothing was on the Xray so the doctor dismissed it as a lymph node.
About 6 weeks ago, I noticed my big toe on my left foot was twitching. Moving back and forth by itself.
As my symptoms continued to worsen, I entered a major University Hospital system, and spent 12 hours the first night, engaged in a miriade of blood tests, drug screens, physical assessments, and they came to the conclusion that I must have menigitis, despite the fact that I was non-symptomatic for nuchal rigidity.
My pulse pressures narrowed to 130/110, HR 140's, Temp 99, CBC indicated slight elevation of WBC's (11,000), renal and liver fx tests normal, urinalysis normal, Chem panel was normal,drug screen normal. Blood cultures and urine cultures were performed, and lastly they wanted to perform a lumbar puncture to test for bacterial menigitis, which I refused since they could not clearly justify the reason for the test to me, and had had a bad experience with once before in my life.
My pulse pressures narrowed to 130/110, HR 140's, Temp 99, CBC indicated slight elevation of WBC's (11,000), renal and liver fx tests normal, urinalysis normal, Chem panel was normal,drug screen normal. Blood cultures and urine cultures were performed, and lastly they wanted to perform a lumbar puncture to test for bacterial menigitis, which I refused since they could not clearly justify the reason for the test to me, and had had a bad experience with once before in my life.
My pulse pressures narrowed to 130/110, HR 140's, Temp 99, CBC indicated slight elevation of WBC's (11,000), renal and liver fx tests normal, urinalysis normal, Chem panel was normal,drug screen normal. Blood cultures and urine cultures were performed, and lastly they wanted to perform a lumbar puncture to test for bacterial menigitis, which I refused since they could not clearly justify the reason for the test to me, and had had a bad experience with once before in my life.
Also she told me that my doctor put into my file something along the line of drug seeking behavior, Which just infuriates me because I've never tested dirty on a drug screening nor have I not complied with anything they've ever asked. I have an appointment to see her to (hopefully) get it sorted out to get that off my record because I haven't done anything wrong. I am just so irritated that she said something about that without any proof or even speaking to me about it.
I developed lower-back pain that radiated into my prostate/bladder area, had difficulty making bowel movements and felt a frequent sensation of needing to urinate.
I was finally hospitalized for a few days to allow my doctor and the on-call neurologist to run a battery of tests. A lumbar puncture, brain MRI, EEG, EKG and a series of blood tests looking for Vitamin B12 deficiency, ANA/SED rate levels and deficiencies were performed.
The longer we are on drugs the longer and harder it is to adjust to no drugs. The body in any event takes time,not daays but weeks and months all depending on variables. I believe I just got addcited to Buprenex in that first week or if that did not occur then I was still addicted or in withdrawls that where managed by the Buprenex and I went straight into withdrawls after a few days of leaving.
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