I swear on my kids lives that I have NEVER taken meds that were not prescribed to me and Morphine showed up. I'm being dismissed by my doc because of this. I'm mortified!! Please let me know if you have any idea how this could happen.
What in the heck shows up as Morphine on a drug test?
Question posted by Jenail on 20 March 2012
Last updated on 25 October 2016 by Wonderful Lady
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6 Answers
Wonderful Lady
25 Oct 2016
I just to the doctor office and the same thing happen to me.please help us I had a good Doctor.
Lizzy dog
2 Aug 2015
I had a uds at my routine visit I took some tyl4 that I for a yr or so. My thoughts were since it was prescribed to me for a toothache it would work better and keep me from running out of my lortab. They talked about disc hard me I have taken pain meds for 12 yrs. please give your input. I was not trying to jeopardize my current pain mgmt help!!!
Montgomery girl
21 March 2012
I had similar experience with my doc in Texas, I had been sick a n taking cough syrup. had to pay for hair test and it was resolved. Good luck
DzooBaby
20 March 2012
Codiene metabolizes into morphine. Have you taken any cough syrup with codeine in it? Poppy seeds used to but I believe that they adjusted the testing parameters to fix that. If you have taken anything with codeine though it will show morphine for sure!
Jenail
20 March 2012
YES! My dentist gave me Tylenol 3 that had codeine in it. I'm still dismissed though because I didn't tell them about that. I'm really upset that they won't even do a repeat test. I worked for this doc for a long time and my whole family goes to him. Honestly I wouldn't go back now anyway. The thing I hate most is one of my best friends still works there as his nurse. I'm hoping she will believe me. Thanks so much for everyone's help here! I really do appreciate you all being here for me!
Inactive
20 March 2012
I just knew DzooBaby would solve this one!! Jenail, can you find a new pain management doc? Let us know how it goes, we care.
Lara
DzooBaby
20 March 2012
That is unfortunate. They are pretty strict anymore! I almost got into trouble with my PM doc awhile back because I had a dentist write for percocet and my husband, not knowing I wasnt going to fill it, was trying to help out and had it filled along with the antibiotic they prescribed. Well it showed up on the prescription monitoring program here in AZ. I told him I still had the whole bottle, that it was never used and would be glad to bring it in and show him. He did believe me but he got really strict on my fill dates for a long time after that and made me wait until THE DAY a fill was due. After awhile I guess he finally decided I was being good! I was lucky-he really could have used it as grounds to dismiss me. It is a bad thing with some Drs. Pain is such a difficult thing to treat and it takes time and patience.
If you are too squeaky a wheel they dismiss you easily as a "problem" patient because THEY cant find something that works for you! It really makes no sense but it is the way of the world right now. Drs are under such scrutiny and none wants to have a finger of the DEA pointed at them. Some are much more chicken than others, for sure. I think some Drs just dont know that much about treating chronic pain and are afraid of being duped, so they just wont prescribe opioids and use any excuse not to. You do have to follow the rules though. If you sign a contract and then go to the dentist, you need to let your PM Dr manage the pain. They will do it! I had to have wisdom teeth pulled and I talked to the PM Dr about it before it occured and he wrote for a few extra pain pills to get me through. If you have surgery, you have to talk to your PM Dr about it before hand so that either he can manage the post op pain, or at least give permission for the surgeon to do so. It is mainly about keeping an open, honest relationship with them. You cant go behind their back and get pills from other Drs. It looks like Dr shopping. It can come back on them and risk their license and no matter how much they may like you as a patient, they are not going to risk their livelihood and license. He may not have had a problem with your taking the codeine if you had told him about it and asked his ok to take it and you probably could have just called to ask and not needed an appt. Hopefully you can find a new PM Dr. Just be sure to be upfront and honest with this one. If something comes up like dental work or whatever, let him know ahead of time, or asap-keep him informed and dont take anything without his approval, otherwise you find yourself without any pain control. Good Luck with finding a new one. If you need help, many of the chronic pain sites like National Pain Foundation, American Pain Society, etc have Dr finders. You plug in your zip code or city and it will give you docs in the area.
Inactive
21 March 2012
DzooB,
I meant be squeaky about the test the questioner took, but since she took codiene (sp) I understand why her PM Doc got upset. I still think this PM Doc is being unfair. I realize being ignorant of the rules is no excuse, but still...
(not calling anyone ignorant, just uninformed of pm doc's rules)
Jenail
21 March 2012
Fantastic information! The thing that gets me is this WAS my internal med doc not PM. I've been prescribed Tramadol and Hydrocodone for over 2 years. I never signed any contract about anything and did not know my dentist couldn't prescribe meds. Yes I worked for this doc but it was over 10 years ago and never heard of such a thing! This is really humiliating to me. Is love nothing more than to walk in there and demand a repeat test but I'm too embarrassed. I have quite a lot of Tramadol left that I was able to refill one last time so I'm going to try and taper myself off and just deal with my back pain. I hope I can do it by myself. I have to travel for work the first week of April and hope I'm not in withdrawl at that time. I'm really scared about that. Thank you for all the information. I do appreciate it very much. I know Oklahoma is really getting press for being the number 1 state for abused prescription abuse but this is crazy.
Inactive
23 March 2012
Oh Jenail I pray you don't go through withdrawals! You may be lucky and feel fine while tapering.
xo
Lara
Inactive
20 March 2012
Hi Jenail,
March yourself back to your doc's office and demand a hair follicle test, or a blood test! I'm no expert re: drug tests, but I would make a ruckus if I had a false positive!! Print this out, what you've written here, and take it to your doctor and put it in his hands.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease!! Make them listen to you.
Lara
x
LaurieShay
20 March 2012
There are many substances that can show positive for morphine other than morphine itself. If you have taken any allergy medicine like Dimetapp (loratadine) it will cause a false positive. For a complete list I recommend the site www.askdocweb.com/falsepositive.html It gives a thorough list of medicines that can do this.
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