Quote Originally Posted by redleader
Hi, I'm a new member and after reading lots on the internet, reading many posts, and currently testing at home too in prep for a test. It appears to me you are testing for a "natural" clean reading?

I was clean 3 years, got an 8th, then smoked almost every day for 17 days (but only 2-3 tokes, albeit good stuff). Stopped 5 days ago. Yes, currently my first piss of day - fail. But if I dilute (just water/gatorade/vitamins) for just a few hours, I get negative (pass) readings on the home dip test.

My point is have you tried a diluted test? If you dilute well then you should see at least see a negative (pass) result. At least you will be able to tell the difference. The extended directions on my home kit tests say "*NOTE: The shade of red in the test line region (T) will vary, but it should be considered negative when there is even a Faint pink line."

And heck, it seems to me that if all the lab is doing is the same thing (I will have to go to Quest) you are doing, then start practicing for just some dilution and quit sweating it. You might still be hovering naturally just above the 50 cutoff, but it shouldn't take but a little internal liquids to overcome that last hurdle?

Just a thought...
Excellent points and you're right, I've just been testing myself naturally with limited water intake. The next test I take in a few days I was planning on drinking a couple of glasses of water..not enough to be considered true "dilution" like N2's thread, but hopefully enough to spread out the concentration of metabolites without throwing the specific gravity and creatinine levels out of whack.

Is this what you're talking about? A semi-dilution type scenario? I think it was Burnt Toast or FakeBoobsRule that was talking about a given amount of water reduces a metabolite count in a given parts per million or whatever of a urine sample.

What are your thoughts on the synthetic urine being tested for other ailments? As in, during the physical, I assume some pee will be used for drug testing and the rest will be used for protein counts etc. I'm assuming since people have used QuickFix for insurance physicals to hide preexisting conditions that it will work for me in an employment physical.