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I do not take drugs, I had to take a drug test, and it showed up as if i was taking benzo's(I guess things such as valium and xanax). Would it be possible for this medication sulfameth/tmp ds tab do this?

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Sulfamethoxazole with Trimethoprim is an antibiotic, used to treat various types of infections and no, from what I am finding, it's not reported to cause false positives for anything.

https:/­/­rxchat.com/­wiki/­Bactrim/­

Where you taking anything else? There are some over the counter products, such as common cold remedies that can cause false positives for various drugs.

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He's not the only one this has happend too it happend to me as well and no other medicine was takin other than aleive. this simply doesn't make sense if it really does cause you to test positive then they need to figure that out and have the pharmacies aware of this.

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Unfortunately, it can sometimes be totally dependent on the test being used. Someone else may take the same medications and have no false positives, because their doctor or lab uses a more reliable or certified test.

And, in most cases, it really isn't possible to know ahead of time, what is or isn't going to cause a false positive.

https:/­/­rxchat.com/­wiki/­Prescription_drug/­

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Ok well I could have just read the other reply for that response almost word for word... The quetion has come up on cha cha that it does cause you to test positive and on the following site show a breakdown it the active ingrediants of tmp part of the drug contains sodium benzoate at 15% now th e first week on the med for three days came up a weak neg and after a week and three days positive....

A better result would be from some scientific research not browsing the internet a five year old who can type can find the on google as you told me.

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YES!!! I'm sooooo relieved that I am NOT the ONLY person that this happened to.... I just started taking "SMZ/TMP DS" that same antibiotic and I took a drug test 3 days into the medication and take ABSOLUTELY NO DRUGS, and tested positive for benzo's... They are sending my UAE (urine to a lab for testing, so I'm hoping that they will show it is a false positive)... I'll keep you guys posted...

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no you are NOT the only person this happened to!!!! I did a voluntary UA/lawyer recommend for child custody case, and i do this weekly. this week however dr prescribed sulfameth/trimethoprim and i had been taking only those, for about 6 days now..; on the 6 panel test they use, i tested clean except for benzo!!!!! they sent the sample off to the lab for further break down. i too am so relieved that im not the only one that this has happened to!!!!

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