Drug testing and triathletes
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Triguy98 posted 2 years ago.
A female friend of mine recently failed a piss test. Understand she is die ahrd Christian, never smoked and very, very little alcohol, much less drugs. She was able to dispute the results and retake the test after seeing a doctor.
Now, if your friends particpate in..ummm.. unholesome activities and you're in the vacinity (you ARE in college, right?) ya just might be absorbing some of that into your system second hand.
Life is short. Play hard and get dirty doing it.
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dr_rios_ec posted 2 years ago.
My fellow friends...
From a medical point of view...just a little point of clarification...
If you are in the proximity of a drug user....particular the ones that spell smoke/fumes...there is no way you will turn positive in a drug test...the only thing is that your clothes will be stinky as ing more...nothing less...
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rob6118 posted 2 years ago.
And fyi by being in college, you mean skipping half your classes, in your senior semester, and simply passing while you work 80 hrs a week right?
Lol so no no time to hang around the friends (who don't smoke regardless lol). But the vision of me doing nothing with a bunch of potheads is an entertaining one lol.
Clarification is that I didn't fail any drug portion of the test, I failed the tampering portion.
And as Dr. Rios said, you can't fail the test from second hand. Supposedly they revised the standardized sensitivity of these tests in 2000 to elimante the 'poppy-seed' and second hand excuses for testing positive for opiates and THC respectively.
Rob
Just a friendly warning to my fellow triathletes after an ongoing nightmare.
The details are personal but suffice to say that I am in a position where passing or failing a drug test is an important thing. I am a completely clean individual in this regard (although I will readily admit a taste for Corona and Lime after a hard days work). Just prior to the drug test I recently took I was even making smart ass remarks regarding the likelihood of passing such a test.
Well as a warning to the other triathletes that might face this, apparently the urine drug test used by most clinics includes a 5 part test to determine whether the sample provided (the pee in the cup) is genuinely your fresh ummm stuff. Two test, a specific gravity test and a creatinine test are used to determine whether you have diluted the sample (either by adding water after peeing in the cup, or by drinking excessive amounts of water prior to testing).
Well of course you are an idiot if you fill a pee cup up with cold tap water. But can you guess who might be considered as drinking 'excessive amounts of water'.
I didn't even think about working out prior to the test, although it was a random affair. But in actuality, according to the pee chart so kindly posted in another thread (search dehydration), I was still dehydrated on that first test, which was confirmed later by headaches. Despite being dehydrated (and therefore having concentrated urine) I still failed the test because these two items indicated I had intentionally diluted my urine to fool the test.
Then try to attempt to politely explain to a not to bright bureaucrat that they shouldn't believe that you are trying to fake a drug test, that instead you are crazy enough to ride 50+ miles on your bike and then do some sprint brick runs just prior to testing.
I figured this probably won't apply to too many people right now, but maybe someone will store it for future reference. Moral of the story, don't actually try to be healthy prior to a drug test. The test is based on your average joe, and your average joe just drank 5 cups of coffee and hasn't had a glass of water in several weeks.
Rob