Clinical Trials

Get Paid to Participate in Medical Research Studies

Clinical Trials.

You may have heard rumors about human guinea pigs, being experimented on in labs across the country.



Well, those rumors are true!

Yes, you can get paid to be an experimental guinea pig.

You can get paid to participate in clinical research studies also called medical research studies.

How much?

Pay varies, and ranges from an outpatient study at $20 a visit, to an inpatient study at $500-3,000+.

So what are Clinical Research Studies?

Clinical Trials are medical research studies or drug studies involving people.

They aim to test a new drug or procedure, and can be used to prevent disease, treat disease or disorder, or treating symptoms.

There are mainly two classifications of medical research participants: healthy person studies, and studies involving people who currently have the disease/disorder/symptoms being tested.

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Phases

There are three phases to Clinical Trials.

Phase One
Studies are the first time a particular drug or procedure has been tested on humans. It is a small group, and it is common as a healthy person study.

Phase Two
Studies are larger groups, and can be to test drugs or procedures currently on the market, or ones that have been extensively tested in a Phase One trial. These can also be healthy person studies, or persons currently suffering from the disease being tested.

Phase Three
Studies are usually conducted with the patients with the disorder, though not always. They are much larger studies, and are usually performed with a control group. A control group is a group of participants in the study that are given the standard treatment, which is compared to the new treatment.

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Participants are either outpatient or inpatient.

Outpatient studies require you to come to the clinic for multiple visits, while inpatient studies require you to stay on premises, so that they can monitor you and make sure that all participants are eating the same foods.

All three study phases have risks involved.

Though there is no real “work” involved in order to participate in these studies, they are not to be taken lightly.

I participated in one Phase Two healthy person study.

It was testing a medication for gout that was currently on the market.

It consisted of me spending two weekends in the facility. I was given two pills (one per weekend) and had my blood drawn three dozen times each weekend.

They placed a catheter in my arm to aid in the extraction of the blood, which they capped off in between withdrawals.

When the catheter stopped working properly, it required the nurses to squeeze and twist my arm to get blood to keep flowing, or else they would have had to prick my arm for each of the 3 dozen draws.

Other than the blood tests, it was actually kinda fun.

I got to meet a lot of interesting people at the facility, other participants. Many were college students who were broke. Others were young married people with small children, like myself. One woman was there just to add some extra funds to her savings account.

I got to have a mini vacation away from my then small, in diapers, children. I had two full nights sleep, got to watch rated R movies with other participants, and was even able to go to the bathroom and take a shower without interlopers.

I got paid a total of $500 for my participation. In cash.

The facility called me back for two other studies. One they canceled at the last minute but gave me $75 for my time, and the other I qualified for but decided not to participate in.

The prerequisite for the clinical trial was that women had had a hysterectomy. Since I had had a tubal legation, they were going to let me do it anyway, but it made me nervous and I backed out. That study would have paid $3,500. They gave me $75 again for my time.

Because these medications are being tested on you, you have to keep in mind that you could suffer ill effects or side effects from the testing.

If you are healthy, and have the ability and desire to participate in these studies, it can be a lucrative way to earn supplemental income as a stay at home mom without investing any money, or doing any real work.

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