Quick Fix 5.7, Quest Diag., 3/3/2010

I just got in to PA school and consequently had to take a drug test today. Seeing as though I smoked 2 days ago, I realized my only option was QF. I've been lurking on these forums for a whilenow and decided to join to share my experience with QF.

I went early this morning so I wouldn't have to think about how I was going to pull this off the entire day. Thought it would give me peace of mind, but I'm still nervous as anyone would be after subbing for the first time.

I went this morning at 7am. I heated the QF 3oz. in the microwave for about 8 seconds and it was right at 100 degrees. This morning was freezing so I thought I would heat it to the high end of the spectrum just to be safe. When I got to Quest I checked the temp before I went in and it was right at 98 degrees.

I didn't have an appt, so I ended up sitting there for 30 mins. As I was sitting there, I felt the heating pad fall to the bottom of my briefs. I walked to the bathroom across the hall to check the temp. and realized the pad was indeed off and the temp had dropped to 92 degrees, no bueno! I strapped the heating pad back on and hoped for the best.

They called my name and I went back to take my test. I read on the forum that some members said to stick the cup under your arm to warm the temp strip so I did that. Before I even poured my QF in the cup the strip was reading 96 going on 98. I was feeling pretty confident. I poured my now 94 degree QF in the cup and then handed it to the woman. Passed the temp. test.

So now I'm just waiting on results and hoping for the best. Sorry for the novel, but this website really helped me out of a bind and I owe it to other members to write about my experience to help them out in the future. Hopefully I can support QF like many others can.

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Originally Posted by INCOGNITOsmoker

As I was sitting there, I felt the heating pad fall to the bottom of my briefs. I walked to the bathroom across the hall to check the temp. and realized the pad was indeed off and the temp had dropped to 92 degrees, no bueno! I strapped the heating pad back on and hoped for the best.

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You got lucky there, bro. The testing facilities I have been sent to have no public restroom, and one of them has cameras in the waiting room. Yep, they are watching, and once you're in the "holding pen" there's no escape. I caught myself "adjusting" once and had to stop myself. What worked well for me was to sew a sock into a pair of briefs, put the bottle in the sock with heating pad attached, of course, and put a pair of loose boxers over the briefs that contained the QF. When I went into the bathroom, it was unzip, flip the sock out and over, pull out the QF and pour it in the cup. then I stuffed the bottle back in, tucked it back down, zipped up and handed it to the collector. She swirled it around a little, eyeballed that line REAL CLOSE, then wrote something down. I thought I was busted, but she went on to place it on a machine that looked like a coffee pot kind of, and said, "You'll get the results when you get back to work," I got the results before I made it back....passed!

BTW, didn't your QF come with a rubber band? You use that to secure the pad to the bottle...unless you break the rubber band, that pad won't move,

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Originally Posted by INCOGNITOsmoker

They called my name and I went back to take my test. I read on the forum that some members said to stick the cup under your arm to warm the temp strip so I did that. Before I even poured my QF in the cup the strip was reading 96 going on 98. I was feeling pretty confident. I poured my now 94 degree QF in the cup and then handed it to the woman. Passed the temp. test.

So now I'm just waiting on results and hoping for the best. Sorry for the novel, but this website really helped me out of a bind and I owe it to other members to write about my experience to help them out in the future. Hopefully I can support QF like many others can.

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Good luck! All I can really tell you is QF worked for me. As long as you got the temp ok and your QF was legit, (there should have been a rubber band in the package, and the heating pad should have been the "Little Hotties" brand.) you should be good to go.

The facility I went to was more than just a Quest Diagnostics. The public restroom was right across the hall from the waiting room. There was only one lady running the facility when I got there and was she was doing blood test after blood test so I figured I was ok.

It did come with a rubber band and little hotties, I guess I just didn't have the rubberband on tight enough. The lady was super nice, was making small talk with me, she took my sample, labeled it and off I went.

Passed! Worked like a charm.

hey incog, where did you buy from, got a batch # ?
i have a random coming up at quest and want to say thanks for your info [calms my nerves]
so quest didnt do the swab huh ?