OK-who here has sold your blood?

[w8liftinglady]

What were the particulrs?about how much did you make?did they pay cash?We are curious.

[GirlinContempt]

1. HEyHEY sold my blood

I think he only got like, $10 for it

[Richardo]

3. $10 Canadian, yet...

:eyes:

[HEyHEY]

13. It was full of piss and vinegar

[Blue-Jay]

14. That wasn't BLOOD that he sold.

It was nudie pictures. I gave him 5 bucks, so there must've been another buyer. I think that it was probably Redstone.

[GirlinContempt]

18. DAMN HIM!

Those nudes were for his eyes and possibly CanuckAmoks ONLY

[no name no slogan]

2. Selling blood is illegal, IIRC

you can sell blood plasma, but not blood.

The going rate is around $30-$35 per pint.

[supernova]

6. You are correct

And you can donate plasma a lot more often than you can blood.

Blood it's every 30 to 40 days or so (takes you about a month to make a new pint.)

Blood plasma, OTOH, you can donate that every 20 days or so, I think.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. Not true.

You are allowed to sell blood, but blood that has been sold is not allowed to be used in the human body. So you know that when you sell your blood it is going to make cosmetics or something similar. This information brought to you by the Oklahoma Blood Institute Nurse that BUTCHERED me the last time I gave blood.
Duckie

[redwitch]

20. cosmetics?????

'splain. please.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

21. They use blood in some cosmetics.

At least that is what I was told.
Mel

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I don't think anyone here has sold my blood

[Elidor]

5. Err, sorry - I've been selling your blood on the side

Just a little bit. I hope you don't mind. I'm a little tight right now.

(I'm guessing the horrible abuse of english in that last sentence will be a bigger blow than the loss of your blood, hehehe.)

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Hey, if it makes ya happy, I'm all for it.

Why not?

Just don't set the world on fire.

[jus_the_facts]

7. Given plasma several times....

....s'like 25 bucks a pint. :)

[supernova]

8. How long do they make you wait

in between donations?

[jus_the_facts]

9. At least two days in between....you can only give two times in a week....

:hi:

[supernova]

10. Wow! That's a lot sooner

than I thought.

Thanks.

[jus_the_facts]

11. Easy money....in hard times...plus it benefits others in a major way....

...beneficial all the way around. :)

[Skittles]

12. illegal to sell blood

are you referring to plasma?

[LeftyMom]

15. The Red Cross stopped paying for blood in the 60's

Whole blood donation is all-volunteer. Some places pay for plasma, though.

(Since it was mentioned upthread, the interval for whole blood donations is 8 weeks, at least where I donate.)

[w8liftinglady]

17. ok..this site has links to various "plasma centers"

there are a lot of them in my area.We were talking about ways to come up with cash quickly

http://bloodbanker.com/plasma-blood-donation.htm

these are in texas(put your own town in )
http://www.local.com/results.aspx?keyword=plasma+centers&location=Dallas%2c+TX&setlocation=on&page=2

I just know there are a lot of folks on here who need to make a quick buck to feed their families or put gas in the car.Just an option.

[DanCa]

22. I tried selling my blood once, they paid me to take it back :D

[Heddi]

23. Donated plasma several times during summer break

The plasma places are kind of creepy.

The first visit is usually the longest. I had to bring a copy of my SS Card and proof of address in the form of a utility bill or something in my name being sent to my current address.

You fill out paperwork and read a long list of things that disqualify you (having Hep B or C, HIV, etc). If you've ever given blood with the Red Cross, you know the questions they ask you? They ask the same things at the plasma place.

Then after you fill out the paperwork, you sit and wait. And wait. And wait.

Then they take a blood sample to check your hematocrit and hemoglobin---see if you have enough iron in your blood and that you're hydrated enough (oh yeah! Drink plenty of clear fluids before you go, and make sure to eat something decent ((not high sugar junk)) before you go--you'll have a lesser chance of passing out).

Then after they take your H&H, you sit and wait. And wait. And wait.

Then they make you do a pee test. I was afraid they'd test for pot, but they didn't. After you do the pee test, you wait. And wait. And wait.

Then an RN gives takes you in a room and gives you a very cursory physical exam (check heart, lungs, and that's about it). Then you sit. And wait. And wait. And wait.

When you're about ready to donate blood, they ask you the red cross questions and check your arms to make sure you don't have track marks.

Then they take you in the donation room and hook you up to a machine. The chairs are really comfy--they're "S" shaped so your legs are elvated, etc. Nice.

Hook up the needle and do the plasma thing. This is when being hydrated comes in handy. The more hydrated you are, the quicker you'll fill the bottle of plasma. What the machine does is it pulls out X amount of blood, then filters out the plasma, and then reinfuses the whole blood product back into your arm. They only take the plasma, none of the "red" blood.

They give you a squeezie thing to squeeze in your hand. Do this about every 5 seconds. Doing this and being hydrated make it REAL quick. Or alot quicker, I should say. There is NOTHING quick about selling plasma.

Then, when you've reached the ??ml of plasma, they unhook you and you go to the counter and get your cash.

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You can donate every other day, and they're willing to schedule you every other day for months in advance. I mean, they're paying you $30 for something THEY are getting several hundred for once it's converted to a pharmaceutical product.

The place I went had an incentive where you got an extra $10 every 10th visit or something. The first visit they pay you the most--I think I got $35 the first visit, then $20 each visit after that.

The entire first visit lasted about 2.5 hours. Subsiquent visits are much shorter since you don't have to go through the whole rigamarole of paperwork and questions. Bring a book or something to do. THe plasma place where I went showed movies in the lobby and in the donation room, but they were always shitty movies like "THe Animal" and "Dr Doolittle 2"...bleh.

And yes, you get paid cash. No turning in for taxes or nothing. No check. Just wrinkly dollar bills.

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I said above the place was creepy, and it was. And before anyone gets like I"m being snooty and elitist, I'm not. The people there were so diverse. There were people like me--students looking for cash, there were people who looked about $20 away from homelessness. There were single parents there. THere were couples there. The people donating were not creepy--they were your every day Americans. The place itself was creepy and I wondered why they were doing their best to continue the negative image that plasma selling places have? I mean, it wasn't unsanitary, but just junky. Holes in the chairs and stuff like that.

And there are the people there that were "regulars" and pretty much had the run of the place to themselves. One lady told me she had been coming to sell plasma every 2 days for the last 4 years, and if it wasn't for the cash she got from plasma sales her kids wouldn't eat.

Oh, and you get $$ if you refer people too.

It's not bad. Much boring. Bringbooks. And headphones.

[swag]

24. Have sold me some plasma.

I think I made about $25 or something each time.

The needles were huge.

And you could never sit in the chair long enough to see the whole movie.

[FooFootheSnoo]

25. I have

my experience was pretty similar to Heddy's. I have a problem with my veins collapsing, so it always took me 2.5 hours. They put something back in with your blood cells that acts as an anti-coagulant and I had a bad reaction to that a couple of times. It was nothing life-threatening, but I did faint once. If I went 2x per week every week I would have made $100 a month. But, because of the above reasons, I had to be pretty hungry to go.