Question on blood tests for panic attack

Johnman2018 · 21-01-2018 11:17AM #1

Hi all,

I am hoping someone can give some advice on this.

I recently had a panic attack and was brought to Hospital, they took three individual blood samples from me. I am now worried that THC might have been found in my blood, is this possible or would they have even been looking for that?

I didn't sign any consent forms etc, so am I being paranoid?

Thanks

biko · 24-01-2018 09:20AM

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s7ryf3925pivug · 24-01-2018 09:25AM

If they are it will be to make an accurate diagnosis. They won't care about it in a judicial context, if that's what you're worried about.

s7ryf3925pivug · 24-01-2018 09:33AM

Also you need to stop smoking cannabis if you're having panic attacks. It will make it worse.

Martina1991 · 24-01-2018 03:23PM

Unless you told the doctor that you took cannabis they wouldn't request the test for it.

Toxicology testing isn't done in routine labs. It would take a couple of days for the results to come back.

s7ryf3925pivug · 24-01-2018 05:28PM

On your medical file probably. It won't go to the guards or your employer or anything else.

Martina1991 · 24-01-2018 07:26PM

I doubt they even ordered a toxicology test.

There wouldn't be a record of it.

s7ryf3925pivug · 24-01-2018 07:33PM

You entitled to get copies of your medical files, though it's not worth the hassle for this.

Grab All Association · 24-01-2018 07:47PM

I looked in my medical file once. There was a small receipt like paper with names of known drugs.

It was something like this

Heroin nil
Cannabis nil
Etc etc

I don’t do drugs so of course I passed it.

I’d imagine the HSE doesn’t give a f**k if you tested positive for it. Testing was just standard procedure and it came back fine.

What should’ve have happened next is a letter to your gp asking for a referral to mental health services to treat your anxiety/panic attacks and maybe a weeks prescription of benzodiazepines type drug in the short term whilst waiting.

Vorsprung · 24-01-2018 08:31PM

Grab All Association wrote: »

What should’ve have happened next is a letter to your gp asking for a referral to mental health services to treat your anxiety/panic attacks and maybe a weeks prescription of benzodiazepines type drug in the short term whilst waiting.

By all mean approach your GP but don’t go in with a preconception about what will result.

s7ryf3925pivug · 24-01-2018 09:14PM

Vorsprung wrote: »

By all mean approach your GP but don’t go in with a preconception about what will result.

Don't go in asking for benzos anyway or they might start taking note.

They still won't tell the guards though.

Vorsprung · 24-01-2018 10:11PM

Johnman2018 wrote: »

well I am just going to hope there will be no record of it, it's to do with an accident, me smoking didn't set off the panic attack because it was a week or even over a week before an accident I had. The panic attack was stress related, just hope nothing will show up when people request the file on my behalf.

Even if there was a drug test done, which isn’t likely, your records could only be released to a third party with your expressed written consent,which won’t happen.

I don’t think you’ve anything to be concerned about here, but it’s worth addressing your underlying anxiety with your GP.

Johnman2018 · 24-01-2018 10:15PM

Thanks Vorsprung, I'm probably fretting over nothing. Ya I've taken the right steps in dealing with that. Thanks again for the responses

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