Methadone Not Showing Up In My Urine??

I have been on Methadone for 8 years! My first few months in the methadone clinic a came up "dirty" due to being scared of withdrawal but since than I gave had almost 8 years of clean time. I have "earned" all 6 of my take homes( in PA your only allowed 6 at a time) and have had them for years now. In November,2012 I get a call from my counselor telling me that methadone didnt show in my urine, I was current on 48mgs. I also had an UTI at the time and was getting over Bronchitis and pneumonia, so I was on medications I normally wouldn't have been taking. I had them call the lab to see of those meds or a combination of the meds would interfere with my urine, of course the answer was no. They also told me my creatna(sp??) was lower than normal, 83 but that was still "good" anything lower than 20 they really question etc. I asked to have it retested, I would pay, guess what the lab threw it away!!!! Anyway, I had no choice but to work my way back up again to all my take homes. I have gotten 4 of them back and was getting my 5th this month. I get a call Wed.(1/1613) that my urine once again had no methadone!! Are you kidding me, I am super pissed, lost, confused etc. etc. I am now on 43mgs. Is that low enough that it won't show up in my urine? They are telling me it's not?? My creatna was 115 this time, still fine. I get UTI's all the time so I take OTC cranberry pills made by AZO to help prevent them, besides that I haven't taken anything else. Of course they think I'm selling my dose or messing with my urine, which I'm not!! I am so afraid of going through withdrawal that I wouldn't even think about selling my dose! I feel like everything I've worked for is gone and I've just been smacked in the face! Help me, what is causing it not to show up and yes they test for methadone metabolite and methadone!

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I am having the same problem at my clinic, in Pa as a matter of fact. Did you ever figure this out? Because this is the second time they have accused me of not having methadone (105mg) in my system. I have Never cheated on a urine and only failed 1 since I got on a stable dose and it was for alcohol. I do not want to lose my privelages or worse get Kicked Out because of a mistake! Please help if you figured this 1 out!

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My 4 take homes were revoked for my 58 milligrams of methadone did not show up in my drug test so they sent the sample to the lab and only methadone metabolites showed up in the sample I have Ben totally clean for four years I am a model patient this is just unbelievable two days before the drug test I missed a dose there was a bad blizzard and they closed the clinic I was left sick but I made it through. I went in the next day and dosed and the next day I went in and got a drug test a urine analysis I wen in the day after that to pick k up my takehomes and that's wen I was infformed my take homes were revoked until the matter is cleared up so most likely that means never I'm being punished for something I had no control ovwe What would make this happen I'm mot pregnant I don't drink I'm on seraquil and Gabapenton I take unisoms to sleep also please help so I have an argument for myside

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I'm supposed to be finally getting a phase and they said that methadone didn't show up been workin so hard for what nothing I'm so mad and so tired of going every day!!!

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