My primary suddenly stopped my pain meds because he said I used someone else’s urine, and accused me of selling my pain meds

[win231]

Back in late 1973 when I only had a few months left on my enlistment the Air Force decided to start “The random drug testing program.” The way it worked a random two digit number would be generated and everyone on base whose social security number ended with those two digets would have to report to the base hospital and submit a urine sample. I was stationed at Columbus AFB Mississippi as a 90250 Medical Service Specialist in the Physical Exam section and so I got stuck with that.

I was instructed to go into the bathroom and directly observe the dude peeing into the cup. I was to make sure that urine came out of his ***** and not some little tube next to it which I was told that some people would do in order to use someone elses urine. I guess the idea was you could have a little plastic bag of urine under your clothes and somehow squeeze that through a tube into the cup.

Are you kidding me? There was no way I was bend down and watch some dudes urine come out of his ***** and into that cup. So I’d just hand them the cup, go into the bathroom with them, turn by back to them and say “fill it up”.

Columbus AFB had about 3,000 people stationed there. Mostly dudes. So on any given day there would be about 1% or 30 people on the list. On the rare occasion when I got a female in the random sample I had to get one of the female medics to go in the room with them. But back then there weren’t all that many women in the Air Force.

Anyway this went on for about two weeks. But when a couple of old Master Sergeants and a Lieutenant Colonel got called in, they must have complained and then the criteria for selection was changed to include only people under the age of 27. Can’t have those old lifers having to take a drug test can you?

The worst part of this drug testing crap was that every day there would be a few dudes that said they just couldn’t go. So I’d have to have them sit there and drink water or whatever until they could. It got to be a real pain in the butt because I was supposed to turn those damned samples in by noon. And I had my other regular job to do also.

One day I got tired of waiting on this dude. Was he holding out because he knew he was positive? Or was it true that he just couldn’t pee? Quite frankly, I did not care. I only have a couple of months to go in the Air Force and I don’t need this crap! So I told him “Don’t worry about it, you can go.”

And I filled his damned cup up myself and turned it in.

Suddenly my job got a whole lot easier! Can’t go? Only can get a little dribble? No problem, you can go! Soon I started getting organized. I’d hold my morning piss until I got to work and I’d fill up a half a dozen or so of these little cups and have them all ready to go to help out anybody that needed it.

Towards the end there I think one of the higher up Sergeants was getting a little suspicious, but nobody ever called me on it. So on 19 Feb. 1974 I got my honorable discharge and never looked back.

And to anyone thinking about turning me in, the statute of limitations has long since passed.

I got a clerical job at a Halfway House 25 years ago. It was where inmates spent the last few months before release; Just computer data, records, & maintaining files for parole officers. After a couple of weeks, I was told to go with into the rest room with an inmate (convicted rapist & murderer). I said, "What for?" My supervisor gave me a bottle & a sheet of paper with instructions that included, "I must personally witness the sample enter the bottle." I handed the paper & the cup back to her & said, "Sorry, I wasn't hired for this" & she fired me.
Yeah...the place was run by the Govt.

 

[Shalimar]

Wow. Everyone is entitled to have their own opinion re whom to trust, but none of us should feel obligated to run a gauntlet in order to be accepted. When I first joined sf, I would have run a mile if I had been subjected to what some members have dumped on Tink. If trolling has occurred on this thread, Tink is not the culprit.

 

[Shalimar]

Thank you so much for your support! I’m not able to talk to my sister about this, because her problems are always much worse than mine, I’m being sarcastic. She’s a one-upper and always makes everything about her, as she constantly blames me for everything that goes wrong. So, thank you for your help.

My pleasure, it is no more than you deserve, Tink. I work in mental health, and one of the things drummed into us from the beginning is that any diagnosis of someone else’s behaviour usually says more about the person giving it than it does about the client, particularly if we don’t know them.

 

[911]

How does everyone know this isn't a troll? First, there is more to this story ---- the doc has some reason, even if wrong, (assuming story is true), for suspecting. Anyone think the doc walked into the appointment and just started wailing on this person out of the blue?
2nd: Does everyone know "Tink's" is the largest retailer of animal urine. Coincidence? And yeah, Tink is a female rapper too.

Wow, I just saw this post. You are correct. I have used Tink’s Doe urine when hunting to lure the bucks. Some guys rub it on their clothing. I used to just drop it on the ground where I was hunting.

I never had any luck using any lure. Some guys will even sit in a tree stand for hours, but nit me. When I go hunting, I would rather track or just quietly walk through the woods looking for deer.

But, about the drugs, I have used Tramadol without any success. If your pain gets really out of control, go to the emergency room at the local hospital. It’s their job to reduce pain and suffering. They may even give you an injection to lower your pain and then send you home with a prescription for a few pills, until you can get to a pain management doctor.

 

[Judycat]

This is what I was thinking, try a pain management doctor. I don't know what the big deal is with Ultram anyway. I doubt it's the choice of addicts everywhere. I had weird experiences with doctors and meds before, so I believe Tink.

 

[Autumn72]

I had trouble with the nurses. Giving me morphine when I did not want it or need it. I was not in any pain what so ever. I feel it was to shut me up because I conplained to the doctor. she would not call for me to talk to until the next day. After she went home. There was this attitude she had. Very cold and business like. Mostly she wanted these people fired. She said her name was, ' Sam, I Am.' Strange I thought not professional, yet, something weird. I did not pay attention to her that closely. Until the days went by and she' ask me questions about the workers. Which I thought was weird. I am a patient there. I hadn't been on a hospital since I gave birth to my babies.
It felt surreal. I started feeling trapped by her. I looked across the open door and saw this woman my age or older. I had the urge to go over to her room and ask her if she had this Same hnurse. She was very condencending. She is 27 not older. She acted like she was the doctor and the doctor acted like a nurse. Very strange I ran out of that hospital without my meds. So I did not sign out means I did not get my meds. She was standing over by where I was being discharged to see what I would say probably
I never had been in such a situation. I never got the meds. High blood pressure pills. Nurses do not get fired ever for anything. See what it would be like on the system that's setup as that movie about, 'call the mid wife' as the reason the young woman left the job, because the system government just started taking over the people to get them to trust these new nurses. She did not agree with what they were doing. Very cold, yet comes to women alone, the invisable ....this nurse is a Trolls as she is. And the kicker is she has this little girl voice. Another weird thing, reminded me of a horror movie...

 

[Autumn72]

I had trouble with the nurses. Giving me morphine when I did not want it or need it. I was not in any pain what so ever. I feel it was to shut me up because I conplained to the doctor. she would not call for me to talk to until the next day. After she went home. There was this attitude she had. Very cold and business like. Mostly she wanted these people fired. She said her name was, ' Sam, I Am.' Strange I thought not professional, yet, something weird. I did not pay attention to her that closely. Until the days went by and she'd asle questions about the workers. Which I thought was weird. I am a patient there.
It felt surreal. O started feeling trapped by her. I looked across the open door and saw this womanu age or older. I had the urge to go over to her room and ask her if she had this Same as her nurse. She was very condencending. She is 27 not older. She acted like she was the doctor and the doctor acted like a nurse. Very strange I ran out of that hospital without my meds. So I did not sign out means I did not get my meds. She was standing over by where I was being discharged to see what I would say probably
I never had been in such a situation. I never got the meds. High blood pressure pills. Nurses do not get fired ever for anything. Otadee see what it would be like on the system that's setup as that movie about, 'call the mid wife' as the reason the young woman left the job, because the system government just started taking over the people to get them to trust these new nurses. She did not agree with what they were doing. Very cold, yet comes to women alone, the invisable .... Trolls as she is. And the locker is she has this little girl voice. Another weird thing, reminded me of a horror movie...

 

[Pepper]

Is there an echo in here?