It is a shame that the new laws are so strict, but they are. Read your contract to see what it says about taking another persons medication. It most likely says that if you do this you can be let go from pain management.
I always carry my current prescription bottle with a few pills with me every where I go. You just never know if you're going to be stuck some where for a whole day or even over night.
Did you know you were going to have a urine test? You did know about your appointment and you do know that they have the right to do a urine test at any time.
Getting in to pain management is getting harder and harder. We just can't afford to make any mistakes. I do understand what severe pain is like and how you must have felt when you realized you did not have your meds with you. It would have been a good idea to take Tylenol or Aleve though. Or, you may have been able to call your Dr to explain your situation.Maybe he could have called in a couple of pills to the pharmacy near where you were. What's done is done though and I really hope your Dr will understand and keep you as a patient. Please keep us up to date on how everything goes. I have my fingers crossed that it will work out for you.
I agree with fntn. We chronic pain patients are under so much pressure. So are the Drs though. They're always being looked at carefully. It used to be that our family Drs could take care of us but not so much any more. We're being forced in to pain management
Hopefully all will work out well and your doctor will keep your contract active. It's a shame we, as PM patients, have to deal with such a precarious position and pressured from multiple sources, the chronic pain is bad enough.
Thanks for your comments .yes I am afraid I screwed up with my pain management . I am hoping my dr understands when he sees me again . I am definitely being honest with him ., and do know the seriousness of what I did . Again I was in some severe pain at the time and really could see no other choice . My brother in law offered the oxycodone10/325 to me . Being what it was I had little choice . I am just hoping I do not get kicked out of the program because of this . I am sure if I get to stay I will be tested more frequentlyb, and rightfully so . We shall see I guess . In the future I will always have my meds with me . Just not sure if I get kicked out of his service what or where to go next . ?
Unfortunately pain mangement tests can detect the difference between hydrocodone and oxycodone. We walk a fine line with our pain doctors wrt trust and our promise that we've committed ourselves by signing the contracts. You obviously sense that you've messed up here and I would think honesty with your doctor is your only hope for him continuing the program. It's your choice of course and you might get lucky by slipping through undetected. Maybe others will fill us in on more of the technical details or limits wrt the urine.tests. But we as patients simply can't be pushing the limits of our doctors in this anti-chronic drug treatment environment.
Both the medications are opioid pain relievers.
What was the urine test done for?
Was it to make sure that you had no medical problems so that you could be prescribed with the opioid?
Because these drugs can make you drowsy, don't operate machinery or drive a vehicle. If you are stopped by the law, you would need to prove that they are prescribed for medical reasons.
About using the drug showing up in urine, I do not know if it would show up. But I would imagine that a specific urine dip stick would need to be used. The normal dip sticks do not show drugs in your body.