Is this a bad drug screen result?

Hi all, I have been taking Tramadol for several years. 50mg three times a day is how it is prescribed, but I usually take all three at once, waiting until the pain is just too much. That's all I take. It is for hip pain. It doesn't work like it used to, but I haven't asked for an increase in dosage because I know how addicting it can be. I found that instead of taking it as prescribed, which leaves me in low levels of pain all day, if I take it all at once it takes care of the pain for about half a day. My doctors office had me take a urine drug screen last week and I saw the results on My Chart and it said that my Tramadol level was 2445 ng/ml. So I did some looking around online and found this : Therapeutic blood levels in adults range from 0.1 to 0.3 mg/L, toxic level was between 1 and 2 mg/L and lethal concentration was usually considered to be higher than 2 mg/L, which suggests that therapeutic, toxic and lethal levels of tramadol were relatively close.

So I am worried that my level is too high for what I have been prescribed. But I am very unsure of myself in these conversions. I am reading it as my level being at a lethal dose!

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