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jpp1980
Apr 20, 2012, 10:57 PM
I was informed today that my surgery will finally happen after waiting for over 6 months. The doc is wanting a blood screening. I used a gram of cocaine 2 days ago with my girlfriend. I'm 6'2 about 250lbs, 32 yrs old, not in bad shape, but not in great shape. They want me to have this screening in about a week, but I can get it pushed to maybe 2 weeks. Will the cocaine or the benzoylecgonine show up in this screening. I'm not an avid user, and if I knew my surgery date finally came through I wouldn't have used at all. What are my chances of showing clean blood?

DrBill100
Apr 21, 2012, 07:56 AM
Cocaine or metabolites won't be detectable in blood or plasma at one week. Would still recommend waiting for 2.

Example:

Kobrich, 2006 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17132243)
Scheidweiler, 2010 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20814350)