Do you take a drug test as part of your pain management?

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Do you get drug tested by your pain management doctor? Can you explain why? Have you ever failed? What happened afterwards?

Take care,

Lizzi from the Carenity team

If you take pain medication you get drug tested to make sure you are indeed taking them and not selling them. I get tested every so often. Sounds funny to me!!!!

Chronic pain can be really challenging, and the pressure of medication tests adds another layer. A while back, a friend of mine who also dealt with chronic pain had to go through something similar. He failed a test and was worried about losing his pain meds too.

He ended up looking into different options and found that synthetic urine worked well for some folks in similar situations. It made him feel a bit more at ease knowing there were alternatives out there.

I think it’s pretty common for people in pain management to worry about tests, especially when their treatment is on the line.