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mistaken urine test

I took a urine test at my doctors as i do once a month to re4ceive my precription of oxycodone, an naproxen for my bad hip problem do to installing carpet and flooring for 31 years. problem is they said i tested positive for methadone. wich ive never taken although i did take a sip of cough syrup that said on the label  prometh /vc codeine syrup could this be mistaken for methadone. i had the normal oxycodone in my system. could the meth in prometh and the done in oxycodone show up as methadone , it oviosly can because i didnt take any methadon.please reply asap.
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Hello and welcome to the pain management forum.  In regards to your test, you did also take codiene which is a big problem when you sign a contract with your PM provider.  I do know that there are some over the counter medications that do bring up false readings in regards to the UA testing.  I do not have any experience with this, but you may want to tell your doctor that you took cough syrup near the time of your test.  The pain management doctors are very strict with their rules and must be followed to a capital T.  That includes the codiene with the cough syrup.  You are not suppose to obtain any other controlled substances from anywhere, but your PM provider.  If I were you, I'd start looking for another provider just in case this one decides to let you go.  Good luck and I'm sorry your going through this.
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Hi. I'm sorry that you're going through this. Did you tell your PM doctor that you took the cough syrup? I looked up the ingredients in your cough syrup. It can cause false positives for THC and for amphetamines. I didn't see anything about methadone though.

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1324871 tn?1288981706
Hello Pauly and  welcome to this forum ! We are all PM patients here so no Drs but I can tell you that false positives happen all the time in UA. More than likely something in the cough syrup caused the false reading .I don't know a lot about it but we have several members who are quite knowledgeable .There are numerous posts regarding false positives if  you care to look for them .There are a lot of info in some of them .I know there are several on pg 2 .It is a little late tonight so I am not sure how many replys you may get but be patient there will be a lot of people here tomorrow who may be able to help you more .

Take care
Melissa
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