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Doctor insights on: Multiple Urine Tests Medication

It: It could be that your hormones are off balance, but please be seen and have a blood pregnancy test (bhcg) which is much more accurate to be sure you aren't pregnant. It is very abnormal to not have a period since december. Please see your gynecologist for a complete evaluation. ...Read more

Drug Testing: Pain: Pain management allows a physician to demand regular screening for drugs, especially those they are prescribing. If you do not do the drug screening the physician has a right to stop prescribing the medications you are on. ...Read more

In general, yes.: Gracee, urine drug tests for illicit drugs are able to test for similar drugs within a class of drugs. Best of luck. ...Read more

Out of luck: If those few puffs were enough to give you a high, it was likely that it would raise your thc to detectable levels (usually 50 ng/ml). If it was truly a "few" puffs, it is likely that you did not achieve significant levels. However, there is nothing you can do now. Water loading will lower your urine's specific gravity and cause a failure of the test. No internet product actually works. ...Read more

Hello.: Hello. The normal specific gravity for an adult ranges from 1.001 to 1.030. This tells you how concentrated your urine is (i.e., are you well hydrated). Yours is fine. The rbc count shows that over 100 red blood cells were counted per high power field (with microscope). Normal is 4 rbc per high power field or less. 2+ blood is also a description of blood in urine. If your menstrual blood was an issue, this would be a contaminant and you would be able to tell because there would be a number of epithelial cells noted on the lab report. ...Read more

Urine tox: Usually it does not show quantity used when doing basic screen. A quantitative test can be done but does not always correlate with exact use. ...Read more

Testing: The negative predictive value of chlamydia NAAT urine tests are in the 99% range. This means that a negative test very likely indicates that there is no disease. 2 negative tests are even more likely to indicate that there is no disease. Nothing is impossible, but it would be HIGHLY unlikely that there would be 2 false negatives in a row. ...Read more

Other drugs: To see if you are taking the medicaton and not taking any other abusive medicatons with it. ...Read more

More info please: There are so many things that we investigate through blood and urine samples that it is not possible to answer your question without more specific details. Please provide more information. Thanks! ...Read more

Yes: Sugar in urine can clue you in to whether you could have diabetes but it is not used to diagnose diabetes. The three tests approved for diagnosis of diabetes are: fasting blood sugar, hemoglobin a1c, and oral glucose tolerance test (ogtt). ...Read more

For what?: What is your doctor testing with the 24 hr collection of urine? Creatinine clearance, cortisol, calcium, cathecolamines, protein, cortisol or steroids? Depending upon the answer there are some medications or drugs that may interfere specifically. ...Read more

Rhabdo: I would want to see blood tests showing your CPK levels. Are you under the care of a doctor? ...Read more

Ask your doctor: It sounds like your doctor has some explaining to do. Sit down with him/her and let the doctor know you have some questions about your blood work and that you'd like to know what he/she is thinking. As doctors, we have a duty to be clear with our patients about our thought process. You or your insurance is paying the doctor for his/her time. You have a right to ask questions. ...Read more

Don't take it: Find an alternative to narcotic medications for the treatment of your back pain. ...Read more

About 7 days: Ovidrel is usually not detectable after 7 days have passed. ...Read more

No, unless...: Suboxone normally is not detected on standard tests used by your employer etc.
It can be reliably detected, along with its metabolites, on a specialized test. Many of the laboratories are now moving to specifically test for buprenorphine – Suboxone.

I wish you luck
by the way, if it is prescribed legally, there is no problem of having it in your urine ...Read more

UACR: Urine albumin to creatine ratio is a spot urine test that measures how much protein (i.e. albumin) the kidneys are spilling into urine. Albumin (or protein) in the urine is a marker of chronic kidney disease. Normal UACR is ...Read more

GC & Chlamydia: Very accurate for gonorrhea and chlamydia, but not used for most other infections. ...Read more

None that: Work, or are in the main stream (no pun intended). The psa test is also not specific for cancer. ...Read more

Diagnosis: A urine dipstick test shows if you have nitrites in your urine, as well as other markers such as blood, white cells, and protein. The human body does not naturally put nitrites in the urine, so if you have them, the only cause is bacteria, which indicative of a kidney infection. ...Read more

No.: Suboxone (buprenorphine) is negative from an opioid test and most do not test directly for it. The exception is physicians who are prescribing it. ...Read more

UDS vs. Other: A standard urine drug screen (uds) usually does not test for ethanol (alcohol in beer/wine/etc.). Alcohol is usually tested by a blood alcohol level (bal) via blood draw. However, there is a test for urine that looks for ethyl glucuronide (etg), which is a breakdown product of ethanol, and is specifically designed to determine if you've had alcohol in the last 80 hours. ...Read more

Both are tested!: Glucose is routinely tested in a chemical profile in a doctors office. Virtually all urine tests look for sugar in the urine! ...Read more

Possible but: The professionals at the hospital are ethical individuals and would not engage in such activity. Any thing is possible, but why would a hospital employee tamper with a urine test? ...Read more

No: Methadone is even checked separate from the other opioids. ...Read more

Need to see doctor: 2 positive pregnancy tests are pretty good evidence. You need to see your ob/gyn and have blood test and sonogram ordered. ...Read more

UTI +, culture neg: If there is clear evidence of a urinary tract infection, further testing can be done to try ; identify exactly what organism is causing it so that the best targeted treatment can happen. If the urine culture fails to grow the specific bacteria or other organisms being tested for, then the results are negative. It means those particular bugs are not there (or no longer there). ...Read more

Often no: The plasma has more sensitive and more specific and generally adequate (better) in most situations. It would depend if the doctor is more worried about a false positive (finding pheochromcystoma you really don't have), or more worried about false negative (missing the disease when you really have it). Your doctor would decide based on your symptoms which is the bigger worry /risk. ...Read more

Supervised: Collection. For medico-legal testing the collection is generally supervised and temperature of urine taken to ensure fresh specimen. ...Read more

Unknown: There could be many different reasons. Do you have a history of addictions, or family history of addictions? ...Read more