AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question My wifes pain management Doctor prescribes her 60mg of Oxycontin bid, and 10/325 of Percocet once a day. She is also prescribed Alprazopam 1mg once and Zoloft 100 mg once a day by her PCP. Her pain management Doctor gave her a urine test and she tested positive for a high level of Morphine and Hydromorphone and thus denied her care anymore. Is it possible to test possible for these drugs even though you do not take them?
Answer Hi Tim,
Both Oxycontin and percocet contain a morphine derivative called oxycodone. In a lab which is not using a very sophisticated testing system they could mistake oxycodone for something like morphine.
The pain management doctor is pathetic, to deny treatment to a pateint is pain is criminal. Most unfortunately your country allows this to happen.
I would first consult a lawyer and then tell the doctor what his or her duties towards the patients are. I think someone needs to file a heavy suit against the government and make them stop this misuse of drug testing.
Ravi Ghooi
