Re: Does alcohol affect test results?

[Guest guest]

It will 100% have a REALLY big effect on your saliva test. As that test is ment

to be done on a normal days enviroment so that your levels can be measure when

your " normal " . So drinking will have quite a big impact on your adrenals and

therefore your results.

Not too sure on the affect on the thyroid, maybe someone else can give some

input here.

Could you not bring the saliva test home and do it a few days later and maybe

send it off yourself ?

Steve

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> I live in a remote aboriginal community where alcohol is forbidden. At the end

of each term the staff get flown a couple of hours to the city for our holidays.

Needless to say there is considerable celebration involving a fair amount of

alcohol.

> This also coincides with my only opportunity to get my saliva adrenal test &

blood test for thyroid. Can anyone tell me if either test will be affected by

alcohol in my system? The blood test would be about 10 hours after my last

drink. The saliva test would be ok until the last spit of the day which would be

after being in the pub for about 4 hours...

> Don't want to miss my first pint in 10 weeks, but don't want to mess up my

tests, either...!!!

> Advice appreciated!!! Thankyou...

>

>

[Guest guest]

You should be OK, but don't go overboard. Many find that being

hypothyroid can cause you to react not so well to alcohol, especially red wine.

However don't take any alcohol during the 24 hours you have your saliva tests

done. You usually have to spit into a test tube at around 8.00a.n. - 12 noon -

4.00p.m. and again around midnight.

Luv -Sheila

I live in a remote aboriginal community where

alcohol is forbidden. At the end of each term the staff get flown a couple of

hours to the city for our holidays. Needless to say there is considerable

celebration involving a fair amount of alcohol.

This also coincides with my only opportunity to get my saliva adrenal test

& blood test for thyroid. Can anyone tell me if either test will be

affected by alcohol in my system? The blood test would be about 10 hours after

my last drink. The saliva test would be ok until the last spit of the day which

would be after being in the pub for about 4 hours...

Don't want to miss my first pint in 10 weeks, but don't want to mess up my

tests, either...!!!

Advice appreciated!!! Thankyou...

[Guest guest]

Thanks Steve & Sheila, for your replies... yes, I figured it would have to make

a difference, I'm just so much looking forward to my first drink in a long

difficult term, that I was hoping otherwise! I found out that I can freeze the

saliva test, so if I can get the test kit in time (we only get one mail delivery

a week) I can do it a couple of days early, freeze it, and then drop it into the

test centre on arrival in Darwin before I head to the pub! Then I could wait

till I arrive back from my overseas holiday and get the blood test done on

arrival before heading back to this godforsaken remote community. Really

appreciate the input, thanks again.

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> It will 100% have a REALLY big effect on your saliva test. As that test is

ment to be done on a normal days enviroment so that your levels can be measure

when your " normal " . >

[Guest guest]

Just a thought... does the spit sequence have to run from 8am to midnights in

that order? Is it possible to start at midnigt and finish at 4pm, or does that

not show a true cycle? Thanks, .

> You usually have to spit into a test tube at around 8.00a.n. - 12 noon -

> 4.00p.m. and again around midnight.

>

> Luv -Sheila

[Guest guest]

It has to be on a normal day, so unless you wake up at midnight then it would

make the test show false results. As the test is to show how much cortisol your

body is producing on a standard day. From waking up right up until going asleep.

The freezing idea sounds a good one, especially if your going to do it a few

days before drinking then it will have no affect on the results and you can get

happily drunk

Steve

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> Just a thought... does the spit sequence have to run from 8am to midnights in

that order? Is it possible to start at midnigt and finish at 4pm, or does that

not show a true cycle? Thanks, .

>

> > You usually have to spit into a test tube at around 8.00a.n. - 12 noon -

> > 4.00p.m. and again around midnight.

> >

> > Luv -Sheila

>

[Guest guest]

I don't see any reason why not , so long as you let the

laboratory know when you return the samples.

Luv - Sheila

Just a thought... does the spit sequence have

to run from 8am to midnights in that order? Is it possible to start at midnigt

and finish at 4pm, or does that not show a true cycle? Thanks, .

> You usually have to spit into a test tube at around 8.00a.n. - 12 noon -

> 4.00p.m. and again around midnight.

>

> Luv -Sheila