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TIFU by accidentally sabotaging my upcoming employment drug screen trying to make sure my home UDS was working

I got a job offer, which I accepted Thursday night, and then I received two emails and a text about a background check and drug screen on Friday afternoon. I was expecting this. The emails and text were mostly duplicates of each other. However, only one email said that the drug screen had to be conducted within 72 hours after starting the background check, and that the labs are open M-F, 8-11am, walk-in only. I'm glad I caught this because if I had started the background check promptly Friday afternoon when I received it, I would only have had Monday morning. And I would rather not have risked that in case something comes up.

I have vaped marijuana on and off, but it had been over a month since the last time I vaped. I did a home urine drug screen Friday just to be sure and it was negative. I over-worry about things, so I actually did another UDS from a different brand on Saturday. The first was a THC only test, and the second was a 20 panel one. That one was negative too. However, I continued to worry, so I decided to test if the drug test was working by taking an old Metadate CD (methylphenidate) prescription on Sunday and retaking the test. *insert the palmforehead*

I failed to consider how long Metadate CD (not immediate release methylphenidate like Ritalin) would take to metabolize, which can be up to four days! I don't know why I thought it would be not much longer than immediate release. To boot, I then read that a 20 panel drug screen would be unlikely to catch it anyway since it's not testing for ritalinic acid (methylphenidate's metabolite). So my whole "science experiment" was useless anyway.

I do have the prescription bottle, but it's over a year old, and it has my old address from when I lived in another state. I can provide the bottle and even my previous state ID, but I worry it's going to look suspicious that I randomly took this old prescription when I'm no longer prescribed this. So now I have to either delay the background check and drug screen with something like "I had to leave for a family emergency" and hope they don't ask for proof. Or I take the test, and have to provide all this and hope that they believe it.

TL;DR: I'm probably going to lose an amazing job by accidently having made myself test positive for a drug I don't even take by being a worry-wort, stupid, amateur scientist trying to test the validity of a home drug screen.

Edited to add: Thank you everyone for the reassurances to just list that it is a prescribed medication if asked.

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