Gabapentin False Drug Test

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I have to take a urine drug test weekly and it gets sent off to a lab to be double checked. The last 3 weeks it says I failed for Gabapentin. I have not taken that kind of medicine my whole life. The only medication I am taking is Suboxone. Can someone please tell me why or how this is happening?

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I can tell you that some people that have been in jail have tested positive for cocaine while taking Gabapentin. They have actually stopped giving it to people in jail for this reason. I don't know the truth in this but I was told that Gabapentin pulls false positives constantly! Sometimes for benzos other times for cocaine. You tell me why? If there's a doctor out there please respond! So people that say you cannot test positive for other drugs are wrong!!!

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I'm posting this because I need a Doctor to send me information that false positive when taken Gabapentin is true. I'm about to lose a job I've work on for 19 years because I became a debate and needed Gabapentin for nerve pain.

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Can taking Gabapentin make you have a false reading for cocaine on an in house drug test?

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I found your post while googling "I tested positive for gabapentin while on suboxone and have never taken it". I literally didn't know what it was when she said it. Mind f***ing blown. I've been off opiates for almost 6 years and never messed around with Benzos, nerve pills, whatever these things are...got into some serious s***, bi-weekly to weekly on my meds..has me thinking all kinds of crazy s*** like I got drugged or something but idk how that would have even happened.

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Re: Sally (# 2) Expand Referenced Message

I need that answer also. Got taken to ER last week for Heat Exhaustion and the next morning my job required blood test...I take 300mg Gabapentin 2x day after an accident about 2 yrs ago...also take Hydrocodone prn..diazepam 5mg 3xd for panic disorder.. Also take OTC meds: Motrin, Aleve, Tylenol for pain not bad enough for Hydrocodone..Benadryl nightly for breathing problems.. I was given Zofram in an IV at the hosp and was dehydrated..my lab results failed miserably with diazepam/benzodiazepines at >100ng/ml... what the hey?? Anybody know anything with all this combo could see where the test would be off??? HELP PLEASE..MY JOB IS ON THE LINE..

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Re: Stephanie (# 4) Expand Referenced Message

I just went to my Suboxone Dr. and they told my I failed for gabapentin. The only thing I have taken is Ibuprofen 800 mg seriously that's the only thing it could have been. I've worked sooo hard to get to go monthly, I was about to hit every 2 months, but now I'm set back to weekly. This is messed up.

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