Why was I denied medication by pain dr. in CA because she said my tox screen was positive for meth?

Question by Sim43155: Why was I denied medication by pain dr. in CA because she said my tox screen was positive for meth?
I am 100% certain I have not used. In fact, I work with people who do use partially due to mental illness. I am in excruciating pain due to multiple bulging discs and pinched nerves, revealed in an MRI. I told her, “Look at me! Do I look like I use?” I had to take leave from full-time job because of pain and to get to the bottom of this. I neither smoke nor drink. This is serious. How could this happen and what do I do?
As I stated previously, which was misunderstood, I work with patients as a mental health counselor and some of them have unfortunately used meth, so I know what it looks like.

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Answer by Crying tears of geek joy.
If you’ve taken Sudafed or a similar decongestant it will turn up positive for meth in a tox screen. Other than that, you’ve had to have used meth to come up positive.

Go back and ask them to test you again, I suppose.

PS: Just so you know, methamphetamine is not a legally recognized treatment for any mental illness and it tends to make the mental symptoms much worse…might want to pass that along to your “friends”.

Answer by Livin it
There are some medications that do have the same substance in which meth is made from but they would know if you were taking that medication. Maybe you were getting pills from another place and didn’t inform them so they wouldn’t know that the positive results are from those pills and they can assume that you may have taken meth. I saw a documentary about meth and it has a substance which is used world wide on medications for pain.

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