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Please Help. So CONFUSED!!??!!!

I’ve been on kolonopin 2MG, twice daily for over 8 Years. Every 6 months my Doctor gives me a 10 Urine Drug Screen, I take it every time, & my results come back as they should. I’m on another medication- which came back Posoitive! But, my Benzo’s came back NEGATIVE!?! This is really, really strange... as I take my 2MG Kolon’s EACH & EVERY morning!! I’ve beeb diagnosed with GAD. Generalized Anxiety Disorder when I was 18. (I’m 28). I’m going to see my doctor, I know Quest Diagnostics already sent him the lab results. Because i was sent them as well. I just cannot make ANY sense of it. I did have bronchitis for 2 1/2 weeks before I took the Irvine Screen, Also I was on a very strong liquid diet because it hurt sooo badly to swallow any foods! I was literally drinking 4-6 bottles of Gatorade, & Water daily every day for almost 3 Weeks. Then after getting better I went & Took my Urine Screen. It’s a 10 panel urine Screen. My 1 medication came back just fine, but I couldn’t believe my Benzo’s did not!? I’m very, very nervous too see my Doctor tomorrow because the last thing i need him thinking is I’m not taking my anxiety meds! I even called my Pharmacy I’ve been going to them for over 8 years & I know the Owner very well, he said benzo’s Stay in your system for at least 3-4 days. But is it possible maybe my Urine was sitting out longer before they sent it to the Lab??? Or did I totally flush out my system when I was sick & drinking all of that water & Gatorade??? Will he no longer prescribe my anxiety meds to me? He can’t just do that too me??? Isn’t there some way I can ask him to either take the test over! Or just take it for Benzodiazepines only! It’s BS! I took my 2 pills that morning that I went too Quest, but I did drink 3 bottles of water, & 2 gatorades all before the Test’s, which was at 3:00 in the Afternoon Wayy after I took my 2 Kolon’s. Please someone reassure me he won’t cut me off- or is this just a flush out???
Thanks guys!!!!! -Rachel :/
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20803600 tn?1546262537
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300ng is the cut off for the testing levels for the benzos . Above 300 mg would be positive, under 300 is negative.
Drinking a lot of fluid over 3 weeks wouldn't effect the test that morning assuming you took it that morning as you said you did. Drinking a lot of fluid during the day and urinating a lot before the test would. Leaving urine sitting out wouldn't effect the testing for compliance which is what they are testing for  
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Then it definitely has too be the fact that I did drink about 6 bottles of fluids & I did urinate over a dozen times, twice at the pizza shop, & then my Apt. was at 3:00 in the Afternoon. When I gave my urine to them it was clear white, I drank 3 bottles of water in the morning, & 2 Powerade’s 1-2 Hours before my test. I couldn’t eat anything & I was so hungry. All I could do was drink from a straw. I did inform them that I was sick. Well I’m going to my doctors today at 3. I’ll talk to him & explain it.
Let us know what happens. I think due to your past test results you'll be fine. Really depends on the Dr.
She posted to an earlier post that the doctor visit went fine.
20803600 tn?1546262537
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No one can really answer what your doctor might do about the benzos. It depends on whether the amount was below the testing threshold, or there was none in your urine
If you took it that morning it should have had some in your urine.
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Yes I did take it that morning, as I do Every single morning. I’ve been going too my Doctor for years, I don’t think he will do that to me, I think he will issue another Test. This is the advice I just got after getting off the phone with his secretary. Every ursine Screen he’s ever given me I’ve never had a problem.. either it’s something that my urine was left out to long? I don’t know how Quest works. Or the liquids I drank through those 3 weeks just flushed my system
Out. Which has happened to a lot of ppl I know.
It just says Benzodiazepines
-300
That’s how all of them look & Say. Except for the THC wasn’t -300, it said -50. I guess it’s a different calculation. Idk.
Update on my Situation: Yesterday I went too see my Pain management Doctor. He said Nothing! Didn’t even bring it up! That my Benzo’s weren’t in my system? So , I said nothing about it. He even gave me a 2 month refill, & said I’ve been doing really good. That solves that problem.
Glad it worked out
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