I had to do one Wednesday. After my interview my new employer called me back to do paperwork, so I drive back on base, and they want a drug screen. I was fine with that but I had just taken a piss. So I get home, ask a few questions to hope I could get a definative answer about whether ephedrine will pop positive on a tox screen for methamphetamines or amphetamines. While home, I drink a liter of water and two cups of coffee. I get a few hits mostly saying no, so I head out. Thanks, Shadow and Whiskey.
I drove up to Sacred Heart Urgent Care and had to sit down, grab a number with all the sick, lame and crazy that lined the walls of the waiting room. An hour later I get to see a receptionist. She checks me in and walks me back to their "Business Health" waiting room. More paperwork to fill out including a full medical history. WTF is up with that? I just want to piss in a bottle, seeing how my bladder is about to explode.
A guy wearing a Coca-Cola insignia on his Cintas uniform comes out of the bathroom with a plastic cup full of piss and hands it to a nurse in a little cubby hole of a room. She does all the evidentiary work, has him initial his bottle, then she looks at her watch, smiles at me, closes the door and walks away.
Ten minutes later, I can't take it anymore, and run to the regular bathroom down ther hall. I piss a raging stream for what felt like 2 minutes and nearly orgasmed with sheer relief. I pinched off the fire hose mid-stream after I felt I could handle it, and walked back to the reception area, where another nurse is looking for me.
She has me lock up all my personal belongings in a filing cabinet and hands me the key. She tells me to wash my hands in the sink beside her, while she takes this blue dye into the urinalysis room and sprays it in the toilet. She comes back into the room, opens a little door on the wall and shuts a gate valve closing off water flow to that restroom. She hands me a little plastic cup and tells me to fill it up above her little temperature sticker she has placed on it. I say sure, lets see if you can draw blood from a stone, and go into the restroom. I, surprisingly, am able to urinate above the line and return to the nurse who is now waiting for me with gloves on and she fills the sample bottle with my warm piss, places a sticker over the cap and asks me to initial it. Then she tells me to wash my hands? WTF? Anyway, I finally finish my trip to Sacred Heart Urgent Care 1.5 hours after I arrive.
I get back home and Samoth, who for some strange reason has a vast knowledge about the intricacies of false positive urinalysis, gives me bad news. Supposedly, Ephedrine can cause false positive on a drug screen for amphetamines. So now I am walking around on pins and needles waiting for DHL to cart my piss to a lab in NY and my boss to tell me the results. Thanks
