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lauraza

Can anyone advise about where you can search/signup for trials?

Thanks

flipper_2010

These sound great, £100 for blood, but not eating for 24hrs, that would hurt and with the other trials, i dont know how much i'd want to risk having a dumbledore hand!

angecull31

There is also another one just outside Edinburgh called:

Inveresk Clinical Research
Heriot-Watt Research Park
Riccarton
Currie
EH14 4AP (Road Map)
Midlothian

Tel: 0131 451 5080
Fax: 0131 4515075
www.inveresk.com

I have done a few trials for them and made a few quid in the process. You may have to be on their books for a while before you are chosen to participate but once you have done one you get them more and more frequently.

mademoiselle_2

I'm amazed they still get people to do these trials after this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4807042.stm

Not for me!

elkay115

angecull31 wrote: »

There is also another one just outside Edinburgh called:

Inveresk Clinical Research
Heriot-Watt Research Park
Riccarton
Currie
EH14 4AP (Road Map)
Midlothian

Tel: 0131 451 5080
Fax: 0131 4515075
www.inveresk.com

I have done a few trials for them and made a few quid in the process. You may have to be on their books for a while before you are chosen to participate but once you have done one you get them more and more frequently.

Are these lot still doing trials. I haven't had anything from them now for at least 2 years. Used to do loads of patch tests in Musselburgh for them. Maybe I should give them a call and check they haven't lost my details.

louisa81

wow, discobaby what are you signed up for?
I got an email asking me to sign up for a test for something to do with cystic fybrosis offering £2,430 but, as with everything they'[ve sent me, it sounds a bit scary to me!

While I love the idea of helping find treatments for serious ilnesses (and, of course, the money), I can't help but be put off by the risks (though they say they are small- that story from a few years back is still fresh in my head!)

Has anyone else done a trial? Are they as scary as they sound?

ikkle87

Although there are risks with this it is still something I would be up for, after all there are risks with crossing the road but that doesn't stop us.

louisa81

ikkle87 wrote: »

Although there are risks with this it is still something I would be up for, after all there are risks with crossing the road but that doesn't stop us.

I don't cross the road unless I have to, I assume that's the same for most people :rotfl:
Thankfully, I don't have to be injected with drugs and studied....

discobaby

mademoiselle wrote: »

I'm amazed they still get people to do these trials after this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4807042.stm

Not for me!

Yes there are risks but there have been many trials taking place over many years and how often do you hear of something going wrong?? I can say that Richmond Pharmacology use 2 hospitals and Northwick is not one of them!!

Even though they still made us aware at the screening of the above trial (where 6 were left very ill) they are very open and you can opt out at any point even if you are in the middle of a trial!!

Its definately personal choice the medicine I will be trialling is a childrens medicine (can't give info as it may be illegal) but I can say it is already in use so I am ok with that!

discobaby

louisa81 wrote: »

wow, discobaby what are you signed up for?
I got an email asking me to sign up for a test for something to do with cystic fybrosis offering £2,430 but, as with everything they'[ve sent me, it sounds a bit scary to me!

While I love the idea of helping find treatments for serious ilnesses (and, of course, the money), I can't help but be put off by the risks (though they say they are small- that story from a few years back is still fresh in my head!)

Has anyone else done a trial? Are they as scary as they sound?

I haven't done a trial but 1/3rd of the people at the screening had and they were there again, I asked lots of questions lol the staff are lovely too! The woman who screened me had been there for 7yrs they answer any questions you have!

I have been sent the same trial but as I will be doing a different one starting next week you need a time lapse between trials, also there is alot more involved in the £2430 trial and I cannot juggle that with my current lifestyle!

Over time you will get offered more, like I said I have been signed up for 2yrs and this is my first one because I can fit it with work etc.:)

It is not going to be for everyone I know!!