Toxicology Negative...How? - Pain Management Message Board

kebba · 11-02-2005, 02:07 PM

Hi,

My primary doctor has prescribed 50 percocet per week for approximately two months due to lower abdomen pain. I am seeing an endo specialist on Nov 15th and he has been prescribing the meds until I find out what is happening with the specialist.

This week I called a day early becasuse I was going to be going right by his office on my way to get my son. I told the nurse that as well. My doc ordered a toxicology urine test, and it came back negative. I had taken 2 percocets in the morning (around 7) and had the test at 3ish.

He will not prescribe me any more because of this. I have an appointment with him tomorrow...can anyone PLEASE help me in what to say to him. I am taking what is prescribed (and sometimes not even as much as prescribed). However, I am not abusing the meds nor am I doing anything illegal with them. I am taking them myself and every 4-6 hours as prescribed. My pain is horrible and I really need them.

Please help me....I would appreciate any feedback that would be helpful when I go see him tomorrow.

thanks everyone!

tina76 · 11-02-2005, 02:20 PM

So he refused to prescribe meds because there was no trace of the meds in your urine? Does he think you are selling them or something?

kebba · 11-02-2005, 02:22 PM

I think he is thinking that I took too many of them all at once...?????

I don't know, but whatever the case may be, I didn't do anything except what I was supposed to do.

tina76 · 11-02-2005, 02:39 PM

That is really weird... Does he normally make you take a urine test when getting the prescription refilled? It seems really unusual to me that he would requested that you do the urine test in the first place?!?

Well, the real problem for you is why did the urine test come back clean? You need to sit down with your doctor and speak to him face to face about this. Explain tht you DID take the meds that morning. Find out what would cause the test to oome up wrong etc... Good luck! I wish I had more advice to give you. This is a very strange situation!

RetiredDirector · 11-02-2005, 02:43 PM

Hey Kebba: Your doc must have been suspicious because you asked for your meds early. Some doctors don't care if it's a week or a day, early is early. He was suspecious enough to order a Tox Test and it came back negative. Although it obviously was an error by the lab of some kind, it's telling your doctor that you are not taking the medication. Usually in that case or situation, the doc think right away thinks that you are selling the meds. I had that happen to me once with Oxycontin. Fortunately I had known the doctor for many years and he was my Mom and Dad's doctor before they passed away, so I told him no way was I selling and he believed me. I had just built up a tolerance and got ahead in my schedule.

I guess what I'm telling you, is you need to convince him of the terrible pain you are really are in and there's no way you could do that and not have any for yourself. Be up front and explain to him you just could not do that, and for that matter, you couldn't even afford to sell part of them. Hopefully he'll believe you and continue to write your scripts.

Good luck and please let us know the outcome.