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Anyone participated in clinical trials?

beachlou
beachlou Posts: 760 Forumite
in Student MoneySaving
Hi all,

Just wondered if anyone has done/or considered doing a clinical trial to earn extra money?
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  • skiddy2k
    skiddy2k Posts: 1,627 Forumite
    Nope, but sounds seriously cool though... allways wanted to do it and hope it has some side effects and i end up being like spiderman or a genius.
  • melancholly
    melancholly Posts: 7,457 Forumite
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    haven't myself, but a friend made a fortune doing them to help pay for his masters. didn't have any bad reactions, but i guess it will depend on what the trial is.
    :happyhear
  • beachlou
    beachlou Posts: 760 Forumite
    Well, so far, there have been no spiderman/genius side effects for me (shame). I have done a few and wondered if there were any other students that have done any to earn good money.
  • beachlou
    beachlou Posts: 760 Forumite
    melancholly wrote:
    haven't myself, but a friend made a fortune doing them to help pay for his masters. didn't have any bad reactions, but i guess it will depend on what the trial is.

    You can make quite a fortune-my last trial paid £900 for 4 nights! Only tested paracetomol and ibuprofen.
  • atton83
    atton83 Posts: 604 Forumite
    id love to do this is their a particular place u go to do this?????
  • sarahlouise210
    sarahlouise210 Posts: 3,386 Forumite
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    beachlou wrote:
    You can make quite a fortune-my last trial paid £900 for 4 nights! Only tested paracetomol and ibuprofen.

    I always wonder if you can believe that it WAS actually paracetomol and ibuprofen ! How would you know if it was something else??? sorry........born neurotic !
    I have had brain surgery - sorry if I am a little confused sometimes ;)
  • beachlou
    beachlou Posts: 760 Forumite
    nikolacarter wrote:
    id love to do this is their a particular place u go to do this?????

    There are quite a few around the country. I go to one nr cardiff. where ru based?
  • beachlou
    beachlou Posts: 760 Forumite
    sarahlouise210 wrote:
    I always wonder if you can believe that it WAS actually paracetomol and ibuprofen ! How would you know if it was something else??? sorry........born neurotic !

    I guess you wouldn't know. just got to trust them i suppose. for that amount of money, i'm not too bothered tbh :eek:
  • DrFluffy
    DrFluffy Posts: 2,549 Forumite
    Our medical school warn us against taking part in clinical trials - we have to get written express permission from the Dean in order to do so...
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  • Noctu
    Noctu Posts: 1,553 Forumite
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    DrFluffy wrote:
    Our medical school warn us against taking part in clinical trials - we have to get written express permission from the Dean in order to do so...

    I might be missing something here, but isn't it your body and your choice? If my uni told me that I couldn't go and do a clinical trial, I'd tell them where to shove it!!
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