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Tomorrow i am going to be offered a job by a company I had interviewed with. It ia a great opportunity for me.
My concern is does any know if doxy, diflucan will interfere with drug testing and if it does should I say I take it for lyme?
I do not want to hang myself
I am nervous and hope that if all works out I will be able to do it. So far I am doing well not 100 % but I can not let this opportunity leave without a try.
You know how lyme is,it is scary because you do not know how you are going to feel. I can not let lyme control my life. I will think positive that seems to help.
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That is what I use to do before I had to leave work. Federal and pre-employment drug tests.
They aren't looking for those kinds of drugs. I do know that things like xanax, valium, etc will show.
If you take any of those all you have to do is bring in proof of a prescription with your name on the bottle. At my office it was against procedure to write any of that info on your tests forms. I don't know how it is elsewhere.
If one of my clients came up positive they just had to provide me with the scripts and then there positive test would be reported to the employer as negative.
Sometimes if you take alot of medication and vitamins if can throw your test of a little bit. The lab will send the test clinic a report saying something isn't quite right. Usually you will just have to proved prescriptions and sometimes give an additional sample.
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Thank you all. Right now I take doxy 400 daily, diflucan 100 once a week, resveratrol, along with garlic,magnesium, potassium, b-complex and muli-vit.
Should I wait and see what happens or tell them what I take at testing ?
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Unless it is illegal before you get the test done to not tell them (like you would be "lying" on some sort of paperwork), I wouldn't tell them.
It is your health, and therefore, your business. No one should have to share private health information with their employer like that unless absolutely necessary.
If something does come up positive, then you can tell them. In the mean time, it's none of their business about your health.
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You don't have to tell them. In my office the employer was never notified of anything a potential applicant was taking. Even if it came up positive because of pain medicine. Like I said, if you proved it to me that you had a prescription your employer would get a negative report.
Also, we let the client...patient..know that the test was positive or mucky looking first. If we didn't get a response from them within a week then it was reported to employer.
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Thank you all for your wealth of information. The reality is unless I have to tell them I will not.And if I have to tell them I am on doxy for lyme disease they probably would say " only lyme that's not so bad anyway. " Thanks Teresa
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