Anyone participated in clinical trials?

beachlou

Hi all,

Just wondered if anyone has done/or considered doing a clinical trial to earn extra money?

skiddy2k

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

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.

beachlou

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

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

id love to do this is their a particular place u go to do this?????

sarahlouise210

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 !

beachlou

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

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

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...

Noctu

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!!