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Related to this subject, anyone know if you can really fail an airline drug test by having positive levels of Goldenseal in your blood?
 
no big deal

I had a bad case of poisen ivy last month, the doctor gave me some type of steroids to take. I felt like Cosmo Kramer the entire time I was on the stuff. Very jittery and I could feel my heart rate increase within an hour or so. I was also very impatient with things and would loose my temper at really trivial things. This would be enough for me to say absolutely no way you should be on that stuff and operate ANY type of heavy equipment. If thats not enough, I had to get my medical this month as well, "no problem" I thought "I've been off the stuff for about a week now". Well the nurse took my blood pressure twice before she poked her head out of the door to find another nurse to come in and get a second opinion. She thought she had made a mistake becouse my blood pressure was 135 over 103! (normal for me is 124 over 88) I didn't think they were going to let me out of the office. Luckily they blamed it on the steroids and gave me my medical anyway.


So sure, no big deal, go ahead.
 

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