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[drunkenfud]

This morning I had to give a urine sample for a drug test related to my new contract. I hadn't been expecting to give the sample today, so had been to the bathroom shortly before leaving for the hospital. As a result I had trouble producing the required amount, not helped by the fact that I'd been drinking last night and was thus a little dehydrated. Anyway, I managed about half of the required 50ml and, not wanting to hang around, topped it up with tap water.

Can anyone more science literate than me speculate as to whether this extra water will be detected in the tests and cause me problems later?

PS There was no chance of me failing the tests, unfortunately, given I've been in this weedless country for a year.

[VanIslander]

[Zaria32]

Yes, it will be detected. None of us pee water... it was a remarkably silly thing to do.

Whether that will cause you problems or not, I can't say. However, I seldom can produce the required amount, and simply turn in less. No one has ever said a word about it.

[Lekker]

Nobody believes me when I tell them this. Trust me, it works.

Piss into the cup. Then, when nobody is looking, or even in the room, pour out 30-45% of the piss and replace it with WARM water. It needs to be WARM. If it is not WARM, then they will wonder why you have handed them a cup of cold piss. Too much water, and it will come up negative and diluted and they will ask you to do it again. Stick closer to 35%. Hope that can help.

[Poemer]

Thank you OP. You made my afternoon.

Topped his urine sample off with tap water. . . That's going in the screenplay.

[Bibbitybop]

[JJJ]

I went a few months ago. Produced only a ml or two at most. They didn't care, they only need a drop for the blotter to turn red or yellow or green or whatever colour they need.

[mrsquirrel]

[drunkenfud]

Bibbitybop: Yeah it was in Korea and for immigration. I was also under the impression that the test wasn't required, but I was asked for it at Suwon immigration yesterday. It seems like the talk on this board about immigration being disorganised and misinformed has some merit.

[nobbyken]

An exhausted client returned from the toilet and handed his 50ml sample cup to the waiting nurse.
Sighing, the nurse said, "Sir, it was a urine sample we wanted not a sperm sample."

[cj1976]

[Poemer]

I thought they wanted a stool sample, I had a heck of a time getting that sample cup lid to balance on the tapered end of my Mr. Hanky.

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i had to do a stool sample, t'was not pleasant

[Bibbitybop]

[agoodmouse]

Some people need to be slapped across the face with a belt.

Be an adult, drink a lot of water, and wait about 15 minutes. Yes, just 15 minutes -- for the purpose of providing a proper urine sample which won't be questioned later and make your fellow peers look like people who try to fool drug tests.

It's beside the point if it's "highly possible" to provide a urine sample with warm water diluted. What kind of pathetic life does a person lead when he/she has to do such a thing? But go ahead and risk your job and visa simply because you did not care more about your being in Korea to stay and wait 15 minutes.

(I question the intelligence of those who post glaringly obvious, borderline criminal things on this message forum. This whole message thread can only be used against you and us fellow teachers here in Korea.)