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Post by ac on Nov 1, 2016 22:50:45 GMT -5
I have never been to this particular clinic but I can say that, yes, your bags will be checked and those items will not be allowed. You may not be disqualified. You may just have the stuff taken away until the study is over. Most clinics you bring your own clothes but there are a couple where you have to wear scrubs that they provide. I'm not aware on any clinic where you shower in full view of other people. Long stays can be very difficult. You will be sharing a room with several other people. There will be noise nearly all day and night and sleep will be hard to come by. It is not an easy job. You will have to eat food you don't like and spend many hours with people you don't get along with. You will also get stabbed in the arm dozens of times and likely a few of those draws will be messed up by staff and be extra painful. Make sure to have soing to pass the time like a laptop/tablet or a couple books. Bring earbuds so you don't disturb others around you and also to help block out noise from other people. Good luck.
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ALT
Oct 28, 2016 9:01:13 GMT -5
Post by ac on Oct 28, 2016 9:01:13 GMT -5
I have not been able to get into a study because a couple times I been told my ALT level is a little high. Has anyone ever had this problem ? If so how does one lower it. Don't drink alcohol or take pain pills. Take the full 30 days between doses for your body to recover. A healthy diet can help as well.
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Post by ac on Oct 17, 2016 19:30:14 GMT -5
Why would you leave a study you are already in to check in to another study that you may not get into? Not only do you lose the guaranteed money for the study you are already in but you may also have a difficult time getting back into that clinic in the future. You may not even get into the next study. Why risk it?
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Post by ac on Oct 17, 2016 19:26:23 GMT -5
I have screened with people who had fresh needle marks from checking out of a study just a day or two earlier and they often still get into the study. I can't imagine doing that myself but it's done often by many others.
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Post by ac on Oct 15, 2016 14:05:42 GMT -5
Madison is one of the BEST clinics to do studies at. The staff is very nice, the food is pretty good, it just has a very nice atmosphere. Now I'm scared. So it's basically all downhill from here for me? :-( For the most part, yes, it's downhill from here if you are used to Covance Madison. Really the only negative about that place is the locked bathrooms when there is a radio label study in house which is almost always. Other places will have bunk beds and/or bad food that they require you to eat and probably not as good quality staff.
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Post by ac on Oct 8, 2016 19:24:03 GMT -5
They are having difficulty filling the study because they need sterile men and there aren't a lot of those. I assume the female part of the study is already filled. Covance pays $275 a day or more for most studies. Spaulding varies their pay quite a bit. The ones that pay really well per day are much more difficult studies so you earn every penny. Spaulding takes more dangerous studies that other clinics decline. Not all of their studies are like that but many are and only you can decide if it's worth the extra money. Thanks, those last couple of sentences are information we all need to make informed decisions. If we aren't allowed a forum for Spaulding, a thread is better than nothing!! Soing else I can pass on from interrogating someone who has been there: it's supposedly a new facility and nicer than covance in many ways. The thing about them being strict is supposedly participants' inability to follow simple rules. The downside I heard vs Covance is that Spaulding has showers in one big room like a high-school gym class(or prison lol). Spaulding is NOT a new facility. It is in an OLD hospital they bought at least 5 years ago. If you are lucky enough to get one of the rooms with just 2 people and a private bathroom then that would be better than Covance. If you get the other building that has bunk beds then it's FAR worse than Covance. There are no "prison style" showers that i'm aware of. I have done nearly 10 studies for each company so I know what i'm talking about. You seem to have gotten some bad info from someone else. You are right about them being strict compared to other clinics. They will fine you for being late or not following rules. Too many people want to get paid without doing their jobs properly. I have no problem with Spaulding cracking down on those people. It's not that hard. All you have to do is be at a certain place when your schedule tells you to be there and don't make noise during quiet hours or cause other problems.
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Post by ac on Oct 8, 2016 16:15:26 GMT -5
I was just on the Spaulding website and they make themselves look pretty good. It seems like they have a lot of great things, private bathroom , chef, movie room etc... I saw a posting on FB that said they would help with travel expenses and if u come with a friend u can room together. Not sure why they really need people for the 56 day study. $ 15,000 !!!!!!! If the clinic is nice they should have an excess of people! i have a few people that I know who travel everywhere so I will ask around about this clinic. They pay $265 a day which is better than Covance so I am going to look into it for the near future. Of course going there from Florida I would need to pay air fare, hotel, rental car so I would have to factor that in. I think I will call Monday since the FB post said they would help with travel. I looked at some of their other studies and they seem to pay well. They are having difficulty filling the study because they need sterile men and there aren't a lot of those. I assume the female part of the study is already filled. Covance pays $275 a day or more for most studies. Spaulding varies their pay quite a bit. The ones that pay really well per day are much more difficult studies so you earn every penny. Spaulding takes more dangerous studies that other clinics decline. Not all of their studies are like that but many are and only you can decide if it's worth the extra money.
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OPVs
Oct 7, 2016 18:42:41 GMT -5
Post by ac on Oct 7, 2016 18:42:41 GMT -5
Withdrawing from the study could ruin your chances of doing future studies with that clinic. I would try to find ways to make money when you are between OPVs and ue with the study. You could walk dogs, mow lawns, shovel snow, ect. Then keep in mind for the future that you don't just look at the dollar amount, look at the dollar amount per week or per month.
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Post by ac on Oct 6, 2016 18:38:29 GMT -5
Does anyone know if they are evacuating the clinic because of Hurricane Matthew? That entire area is going to be destroyed. I have never heard of a clinic being evacuated because of severe weather but they really need to in this case.
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Post by ac on Sept 19, 2016 15:54:42 GMT -5
keeps more detailed records about the subjects than most other clinics. I think that's a good thing. Once you screen and sign the informed consent you are signing a contract to fulfill the terms of the contract. If you bail they can and should penalize you for it. I think most clinics are too lenient. Obviously a death in the family should be an exception but otherwise once yo sign that paper you should be committed.
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Post by ac on Sept 15, 2016 16:52:35 GMT -5
you are right that several places get pissed if you cancel after a screening and may penalize you in some way. pharmamedica and biopharma are examples. but this is a violation of the principle of informed consent. they should not be putting pressure onto anyone to be in their studies. in madison, go to state street,and do stay at the hostel, it's fun and a little cheaper. I disagree with you on this one. Once you sign that consent you are signing a contract to complete that job. Failure to do so should result in a punishment up to and including being banned from their clinic. Some leeway should be given depending on circumstances such as death in family.
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Post by ac on Sept 14, 2016 19:08:40 GMT -5
"The few times I"ve asked these type of questions, they seem not to know, even when they seem friendly and helpful." When you ask hard questions, they'll be evasive. Persist, politely. You can tell them to ask the study doctor to find out. you can rephrase the question. As a subject, you are entitled to informed consent. So if you have questions they are supposed to answer them. There's a weird catch22 about that - in the consent it says if they didn't answer your questions you should refuse to sign. so at that point you have to lie and pretend they answered your questions, unless you want to not get in. I just did a study where the whole time it wasn't clear if they were going to pay me $3800 or $4000, and when i asked about it they didn't have good answers. ended up being $3900. i didnt record the call where they promised the extra $100 (for $4000), so not much i can do, and the $3800 was enough. but because i kept asking, they did come up with the extra $100 (for $3900). at my most recent screening i didn't ask how many they were screening because i knew they needed 45 and were talking anybody they could get. but in general you always want to be able to get a sense of what the odds are so you don't make extra trips. like, if it's day 4 of screening for 12 spots, they probably filled those day 1 and are just looking for alternates. the more you ask, the more you know, the more you know, the more you can assess the odds of getting in. I have screened on the last day several times at Madison Covance as well as Spaulding and got in every time. I know some clinics it does matter what you screened in but it's definitely not all clinics.
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Post by ac on Sept 13, 2016 18:31:09 GMT -5
Is that 30 days since your last dose or 30 days since the study ended? They need to make the rules clean so people know. I have no problem with them enforcing 30 days dose to dose but there is no reason you should need 30 days between end of one study and screening for the next study. That's too much time in between.
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Post by ac on Sept 12, 2016 9:27:19 GMT -5
Yes it is normal/typical for Covance to have a long time between screening and check-in, 3 weeks is common. I don't think it's unreasonable to have an appointment to screen at two different places. You may find when you screen at one place that you don't like soing in the informed consent or you may fail your vitals or soing like that so it's nice to have a back up. However, I would recommend canceling the second screening if the first one goes well. If you screen for both and pass both screenings then you have to cancel one and clinics don't like if people cancel AFTER the screening. It costs them hundreds of dollars to screen each person. is one clinic that I know of for sure that will penalize you for doing such. I know someone who got suspended for 6 months after he cancelled a third time. I'd be surprised if they are the only ones who do soing like that.
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Post by ac on Sept 12, 2016 9:18:34 GMT -5
I still have a bit of difficuly with whether or not I would consider this employment, I guess it's a matter of semantics. People employed for the direct use of their bodies(prostitutes) tend to have a bad rap in our current culture. I agree with both of you though, that the majority of typical jobs do suck, and this flexibility and lack of actual work is appealing to me. From a legal standpoint it is considered work if it's your main source of income. In that case you are a self employed contract worker and the IRS treats you as such. That informed consent that you sign before every study, that is a contract for employment. It's not debatable whether or not it's work from a legal standpoint although I can see why some people don't think it's actually work since all you have to do is be at a certain place at a certain time and the clinic staff takes care of the rest. There are negatives though and I for one think we earn every penny we get since we are taking potentially dangerous drugs and putting up with the pain of hundreds of blood draws every year. We also have to live in a cramped area with many other people making it very difficult to get a decent amount of rest even though we need rest more than ever because of what we put our bodies though during a study.
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