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Martynt74

Martynt74

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Anyone ever considered these?

It feels like an easy way to a little extra money. Whilst i don't need the money, the thought of getting paid to sit around and be a guinea pig does appeal and would let me shove more money into ISA's and the like.

On the surface the risk appears to be very low, whilst there are documented cases of things going wrong they seem pretty rare. You then get to spend a few days locked in a room, presumably with access to the internet. Hell with remote working at the moment you could do it without even taking days off work!

It's something i consider every now and then, but ultimately never go through with. Would be interesting to hear peoples thoughts.
 
I've done them in the distant past. But I wasn't keen on any overnight stay ones. Surrounded by a bunch of strangers for a week, unable to go out, and (in my experience) most of them haven't heard of personal hygiene...

I also read the ICFs carefully, and didn't put my name down for anything which hadn't already been tested on a lot of human subjects before it got to me!
 
bazzabear said:
I've done them in the distant past. But I wasn't keen on any overnight stay ones. Surrounded by a bunch of strangers for a week, unable to go out, and (in my experience) most of them haven't heard of personal hygiene...

I also read the ICFs carefully, and didn't put my name down for anything which hadn't already been tested on a lot of human subjects before it got to me!
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The one i saw seemed to suggest you were locked away in a private room for ~10 days as they needed no contamination for readings. It paid just over £4k so seems tempting. I presume you don't have to cook/clean either so it's like a holiday!

Probably wouldn't be keen to be away from the wife/kids that long personally, but it's pretty lucrative.
 
I would have been fine in a room alone rather than a room with other men! As long as I had my devices to play with.

Of the two overnight stays I can remember, one I was the backup for the trial, so was in a separate room. Unfortunately said room had a very noisy -80 freezer in it. The other memorable one had the loudest snoring man I have ever experienced blasting out all night.

But yeah, other people are a potential issue with trials. Put it this way, as an indicator that the organisers themselves recognised that advertising for people who were free for several days in a row during the week would result in some applicants being of a particular type: They used to check your bags on the way in to make sure there was no knives or porn in them. :eek: :D
Oh, and seeing people come in for a 2 week stay and bring a rucksack with one change of clothes in it... bleurgh...
 
I've done loads of these and never had a problem.

Here's me after the last one I did, which made me really tall and strong








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The companies don't have to disclose all trial data.
So they just release the ones they want, and keep the failures hush hush.
So if people were getting rekt by trials, you wouldn't know.
 
I worked with a couple of guys who used to do week long ones for extra cash when we were on min wage.

They were mostly fine, however there was a pain killer one they hated because they were injected with capsicum (one was sure he was the placebo that time!)
 
Would want considerably more than a couple grand to roll the dice like that. I assume you're signing some kinda waiver when you do it too so they're not liable if anything bad happens.
 
ahar said:
Don't forget there are risks. Was living just near Northwick Park hospital when this happened....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35766627
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Haha yeah, I thought of that when I saw this thread. Good luck OP :p

MooMoo444 said:
Would want considerably more than a couple grand to roll the dice like that. I assume you're signing some kinda waiver when you do it too so they're not liable if anything bad happens.
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As per the above story, there is compensation if that's what you meant. Depends how much your health is worth I guess.
 
I used to do them when I was a student. Easy money. I could study or watch tv, videos, we could order in any magazines we wanted and we were given controlled meals.

Biggest pain was having them come draw blood every hour during the daytime and the cannula started to bug you after several days.
 
billysielu said:
The companies don't have to disclose all trial data.
So they just release the ones they want, and keep the failures hush hush.
So if people were getting rekt by trials, you wouldn't know.
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What? Of course they have to disclose the results of all trials!

People are right to say be cautious though. For instance, if you see the words "First Time In Man", walk away.
 
There was a clinical trials place by the Sainsbury's on Morningside Road in Edinburgh circa 1990 - 94 and my friends and I used to occasionally joke about how one trial could cover our Uni costs for a term but instead of becoming human guinea pigs we decided to get an education which allowed a profession and lots and lots of sweet loot. Welp, that's my story, thanks for reading, namaste.

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I did a clinical trial in my last term of university when I was working on my dissertation. I actually did it with Parexcel at Northwick Hospital it would have been just a couple of months after the incident in the link above. I can't remember all of the ins and outs, but I was in for the best part of a week and then had a handful of out patient visits. All went well and got a few grand out of it.

The trial was with a handful of other people some of whom were actually in the unit during the trial that went wrong. Some of them seemed to be making most of their wages on clinical trials. One of them seemed to suggest a friend of his was registered with a few different GPs so he could give different doctors details each time he signed up for a trial - as typically they don't want you to have done a trial within 6 months or so of doing the next.
 
I wouldn't mind doing clinical trials involving drugs already on the market or ones which are evergreened as you know the side effect profile, but I wouldn't be doing phase I safety trials for novel compounds.
 
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