Question about Oxycodone and Unwashed Poppy Seeds on Drug Tests

[DoctorEmdee]

Hey everyone, glad to be part of the group.

I have an ongoing prescription for Oxycodone for my bad back pain. Naturally, I love the euphoria and care-less attitude I experience under the drug as well. I sometimes buy unwashed poppy seeds and mix them with juice which provides similar effects obviously, but not as strong as I am carefully with my dosage. I understand the risks.

I had some poppy seeds and juice a couple days before a follow up appointment with my pain management doctor and was given a follow up pee test. So, that has be a little concerned. Will both of these substances just show up on the test as 'opiates.' Or will the poppy seeds show up as something different from my prescribed Oxycodone? I don't want to be discharged, this medication has made life livable for me again.

I have done internet searches on this but answers are not consist ant. I hoped this community might be better informed.

Also, what is the coating on unwashed poppy seeds considered? Opium? How does it show up on drug tests, as morphine, codeine? And how does this differ from oxycodone at all? I just don't want to lose my script. Maybe I'm worrying for nothing?

 

[alasdairm]

support -> bdd

alasdair

 

[DoctorEmdee]

Thanks for moving, sorry thought it meant support in a different context.

 

[sekio]

Poppy seed tea contains morphine and codeine, which show up differently on drug tests than oxycodone - they are metabolized differently and although they are similar in structure, drug tests do differentiate between them.

Depending on your personal usage of poppyseed you may or may not be able to pass the levels of morphine in your urine etc off as a strong affinity for poppyseed torte; otherwise it will likely make your pain management doctor ask some questions!

 

[DoctorEmdee]

Thanks for the kind reply sekio. That was kind of what I've been suspecting, so not good news. I can just hope for the best at this point. She is a nice lady, so I suspect she will give me a wink and stern insinuation that it better not happen again. Of course, she has legal standards she has to abide by as well, so hopefully not enough will show up to raise suspicion.