Chief Cash

Folks,

Tomorrow I have to take a pre-employment drug test at Quest (6633N SAP 10-50 GC/MS). I've done enough research on this test to know that it will test for THC (my only concern) at a cutoff of 50 ng/ml on the initial screen, and that if it comes back as a preliminary positive, then it will go through GC/MS.

I am 35 years old, 5'7", 190 lbs., with average to slower metabolism. I used to be a heavy daily toker for the last four or five years. Knowing I may have to take a drug screen for a job I'm accepting, I quit cold turkey on 4/20/08. On 5/25-5/26/08, I had a momentary brain lapse and indulged in a few tokes each day. I have been totally clean again ever since.

In late April/early May, I began testing myself with the First Check home test. No surprises, the first couple of test results were no-brainer positives. In early June, after my brain lapse, I resumed taking the home tests weekly (sometimes twice a week). I'm clearly flushing the THC out of my system, because the THC band has been showing up on the test results (negative), and getting ever so slightly darker with each test.

As we know, the test brochure says that ANY lines no matter how faint should be interpreted as a negative result. I just took another home test tonight before my actual test tomorrow afternoon, and there is clearly a band next to THC, but not nearly as dark as the control band.

I guess now that I'm within hours of the actual test, I'm finally starting to stress out. Can anyone definitively say if the home test literature is truly accurate about the presence of faint lines vs. what a true lab test may identify? I have one more home test, which I plan to take tomorrow morning. I'm just hoping I haven't fooled myself into believing that the fainter THC line is a negative result, hands-down, in a lab environment.

Thanks for suffering through this with me. Any advice or opinions would be greatly appreciated.

CC