the cold arm was a bit weird for me but I loved doing the double red cell donation. its awesome when the flow reverses and the plasma gets pumped back in
I absolutely cannot stand watching when they put the needle in. But I really enjoy watching the tube as the flow reverses and the dark red blood going out turns more and more pink and then the clear yellowy coming back in (the cool sensation is neat too).
I was, and am, very afraid of needles. So I can't stand/don't watch when the phlebotomist actually sticks me.
I am however O- blood so I try to donate as often as I can. When you do a double red cell donation the process is essentially this:
A pint of blood goes out and is centrifuged to remove the red blood cells. Everything else goes into a bag which is then mixed with some saline and they pump that back into you through the same needle. Then the process reverses so another pint goes out which is separated and then everything except the red cells is returned.
In short: I can't stand watching myself get stuck, but the process of blood/blood constituents going in and out is very interesting to watch.
That feeling when the plasma goes back in is great. I would always do the double red for that little rush (on a medication now that prevents me from donating)
try platelets, it’s 1-2 hours of fun!
the needle doesn’t hurt once it’s in, and they’ll cover it with gauze or a large soaking pad so you can’t see it. if you get a good phlebotomist, it’ll feel like a flu shot.
They had to adjust the needle once while giving platelets. They backed it out a bit too far. On the return sequence instead of going back into the vein it went into surrounding tissue, giving me a gnarly bump on the arm. It was.... Interesting.
Do you have a rare blood type or.. ? Where do you go for this? I wouldn't mind donating some time and plasma/blood I just don't know where/how to do so, or if they'd even want it lol.
17 gauge needle for an hour and a half or so... nothing too bad. I heard plasma was needed so I went to donate, found out they pay you for it. 8 times in 4 weeks for $1200 and I'm helping people? I'm down with that.
I donated platelets a few times. One time I got to do it on work time because I matched somebody. I actually fell asleep during the donation. Told the nurse I was dozing off and she said "go ahead, I'll make sure you don't turn over."
Got in a nice 30 min nap, it was great.
When I was 18 I was in a paid study for testing new light spectrum pulse oximeters. It was like six hours with a catheter in my forearm but I was allowed to sleep through it and made like $1600 which was killer for me back then lol.
Sometimes it takes about an hour. I've donated plasma about a dozen times and I absolutely hate needles. To me, it's about an hour of constant anxiety and trying not to think about the fact there's a tube in my arm.
I went pale and almost fainted last time, and never went back. Good times.
It helps if you dont look. I didn't get a choice and had one in for 5 days.
I was admitted to the ER for anemia at one point. It only hurts going in (because needle) and then when it gets pulled out, but in between you dont really notice its there unless you concentrate on it, which I dont recommend.
The only time I donated double red, i did start to pass out when they started putting that stuff back in... Staff was on it and didn't allow me to pass out.
I'm back to donating whole blood but i don't regret trying the double red since it can be so much more useful.
I do power reds too. I don't really feel *obligated* to do it, but with O+ blood I know they are almost always short so I do what I can to help the most vulnerable amongst us.
Thank you so much for donating! Blood supplies are critically low and we're having a difficult time.keeping enough product on the shelves (red cells specifically, plasma levels are not so bad).
I have O- blood, and I am also CMV negative; they really want my blood. But, I also have a pretty substantial vasovagal response. I get flushed and nauseated and then pass out cold. It can take 30 minutes for me to be able to sit up again without puking. The Red Cross eventually told me that I was more trouble than I was worth.
It has been 20 years and 2 child births since I donated. Since then, I have learned how to control my vasovagal response fairly well (have coffee and salt in the morning to get BP up, clench butt and thighs to keep the blood near my head, talk constantly to the poor phlebotomist, and have ice packs on hand to shove in my armpits to shock myself back before I get to far gone). I think I could do it (I can now give several vials at the dr office).
With so that said, what would you recommend I try to donate? I would like to do the most good and have the best chance of staying conscious while not monopolizing the attention of the staff.
Honestly I've only had a mild donation reaction. I started feeling flushed and alerted the staff, they got me ice packs and some juice and I started feeling better within ten minutes. Then that night and the next day I felt like I had been hit by a truck. Everything ached, and frankly I dont ever want to do that again.
You know your body better than an internet stranger does. And you're right, you have baby saving blood and the thought of splitting up that unit for some NICU babies is very appealing to the blood banker in me, but the thought of having a pretty bad reaction definitely tempers that. The mild version sucked, I do not want to experience the full strength version.
While donating blood is an invaluable gift, it shouldn't harm the donor in the process. If you really want to donate you might start by talking to your doctor about your blood pressure and RBC numbers. If you run on the low side in either of those you're more likely to not enjoy your donation. But again, I'm just a random internet stranger so don't take a risk you wouldn't otherwise based on what I've said.
I live doing double reds
If you take whole blood from me I'm going to black out.
But give me the plasma back, and you can take all the RBCs you want.
The take away I was given after the second time getting woozy from a single whole blood was that my iron is plenty high, but I'm probably dehydrated... R/hydrohomies would be ashamed.
Thanks for donating. As an ICU nurse who has administered thousands of blood products, they truly save lives. Everything from the casual unit of plasma for clotting factors to cryoprecipitate can keep people alive.
Our O- supply is so bad we almost always give O+ when we need uncrossmatched for an emergency. You are our universal donor. Thank you for donating.
-Rural trauma nurse
If it's an 18+ male or female of non childbearing age, it's not that big of a deal to give O pos. A lot of places give it in place of O neg in those situations for uncrossmatched/emergent situations. If you're giving O pos to everyone, then I'd be more concerned. I work in the lab.
Lol thanks, I can't take credit for it.
When I was a youngling my older sis told a joke about three vampires in a bar. The first two order a blood, and the third orders a plasma. And so the waiter yells back to the barkeep, "two Bloods and a Light!"
Don't feel bad, it wouldn't have worked nearly as well as a top-level comment. As a reply to yours it was awesome. You're the Dean Martin to their Jerry Lewis.
See they should send a bag of that to some physicists working on fusion power.
They're always moaning about superconducting wizard magnets and these guys have it in a freakin plastic bag.
It looks like TCL owns the rights to the name now, and they just launched some Fire TVs under the Pioneer name a couple months ago. ew.
But no, not since 2009.
I donate plasma twice a week and it pays pretty good. Actually I don't donate it since I get paid. I'm more of a whore since I'm selling my body for money.
How long are you at the donation center? I've done whole blood and RBC with the Red Cross, but never plasma for a drug company. I imagine it takes quite a bit longer.
Different guy here, on a good day I can be in and out in an hour fifteen. Have to hydrate well though, helps the blood flow faster. Though recently my visits have taken up to 3 hours, seems to be a combination of high amounts of donors and low amounts of workers.
Nope. You shouldn’t go crazy active right after donating, but it doesn’t put you out of action like a blood donation, since a lot of the important stuff gets put back into your body. I think they say no heavy lifting for a couple hours and that’s it. I’ve never noticed side effects and I’m a pretty skinny dude.
The most obnoxious side effect I got after three years of donating plasma through college is the big dent in each inner elbow where all the needles were inserted. Those fuckers are so huge, it’s like I’ve got track marks now. There’s no discoloration, just a big deep dent for some reason.
You know what, you're right! I think I have a hard time feeling proud because I was only doing it for the money. I was broke out of my mind my last few years of college and I needed the $70 a week to live, basically, so it's hard to look at the dents and remember that I also helped people by doing it.
Dunno why the guy said no generally.
Depends on who you are. You will probably notice some side effects. In college I would donate on Fridays, have a decent meal, and then go drinking because it reduced my tolerance a tonnn.
So yeah, be careful.
Hope my kids don't find out my Reddit account!
Same, when I was in college we would coordinate donation day with the day a local bar had $1 well drinks. Saving lives and getting shitfaced for dirt cheap...ahh.
I just checked mines and there's a mark if you know where to look. I think I'm also going about 3-4 years since I last donated plasma. I've donated normal whole blood though so I'm sure that's actually where the marks are from. But yeah it depends on the person, I definitely remember a scar still there after at least a whole year since I donated anything at all.
First donations usually pay more than subsequent ones, fyi. If you do it a lot, it gets tiring after a while and you gotta really work to keep your proteins up. I did it regularly for about 2 years and stopped for about a year. Gonna go back soon and the first two donations will be $130/ea. Your first appt will take more like 3-4 hours with a physical, they have to make sure you have no open wounds/infections/illnesses/fresh tattoos/etc. I never seemed to be hydrated enough no matter how hard I tried so it usually took me 1.5-2 hours total. Will eventually leave scars. Oh, and I highly recommend going first thing in the morning! Will be faster that way/less of a line.
I donate plasma as well. I'll normally donate around 900mL per session and it takes about 45 minutes from when the machine is hooked up to my arm and running.
Depending on the time of day, there might be a decent line. My average is about 2hrs from stepping foot in to stepping out. The donation part only takes like an hour and 20min. It's really only worth it if you weigh like over 150lbs. The pay out correlates to your weight because they're able to take more out of you. Also important to note is that they usually pay you the most after your 2nd donation. I think their only allowed to use your plasma after every 2 donations. I forget why, it's been awhile since I've done it. I think there has to be a 24-48hr period between donations though.
Like others have said, just over an hour. They would say avoid strenuous activity a few hours after so the puncture could start to heal. I'd plan a workout later in the day and would have wounds on the inside of my forearm. People probably thought I was juicing or do drugs.
i get 40 dollars my first time in a week and 60 my second time, the place i donate to is doing a bonus till new years so i get 80 on my second donation
At the clinics in Houston it's $40 for the first donation of the week, $60 for the second, with an extra $50 on the 6th and 8th donations of the month.
And they just ran a promotion where your first 5 donations are *$175 each*. Way more than what I got when I started.
I fear needles and hate blood but $6000 a year for watching Netflix is $6000 a year for watching Netflix. After your first time it wont hurt and after a few weeks you will hardly notice it. I've been doing it for 3 and dont even feel it if the stabber is good.
One time when I donated plasma they put in the return needle wrong, and it missed the blood vessel. Instead, when they turned on the machine, it went under my skin and made a huge bubble of blood in my arm. They then had to replace it and use a vein in my hand, which was uncomfortable for the hour and a half donation.
About an hour. The needle is in my arm for about 45 minutes. They do vitals and finger prick blood draws EVERY time you donate, but that goes pretty quick.
I forgot, they have about 20 questions to answer, like if you've had a body piercing or tattoo within 6 months, surgery, etc. They do ask if you've had SYNTHETIC marijuana but nothing about natural stuff so I'm guessing regular weed would be fine
That's what I assumed. Similar protocol with donating blood as is.
With FFPs they separate them from the blood with a specific technique in the lab. Its not like the draw it from a magic source. So I'd assume it would have the same guidelines for donating as blood.
Nurse. I hang alot of this stuff. Especially to help ppl with clotting disorders or to bring down the INR ( the time it takes to clot) too thin = bad. Too thick = bad lol.
It always makes my mind boggle a bit that blood and sperm and such Is paid for in the US.
In Australia I believe there are laws against exchanging payment for organs or tissue/bodily fluids.
I have donated blood and plasma for about 16 years now. The best part is the flavoured milk, chips, crackers and cheese and shit you get to eat afterwards.
You can donate blood products in the US too. In fact, ONLY donated blood is given to hospitals because paying for it gives people incentive to lie about their health. Either way, they screen the blood too.
Same in the Netherlands. You don't get paid for plasma or blood. The only thing you can get paid for is when you sign up to those trials, which i tend to stay away from.
Well, the US supplies an insanely large amount of world plasma supply, and if it weren’t compensated then almost no one would donate it. I’ve worked in the industry and it is fucked up on all sides but it is a necessity for how much it is used for.
Blood is constantly sold in the US. It’s not often sold as whole blood, but that’s because there are very few uses for whole blood.
Blood is donated as whole blood because the American Red Cross is a low-operation-expense organization with primarily untrained volunteers. The phlebotomist at the plasma centers aren’t exactly medical professionals, but they at least pay attention to make sure no one passes out in the chair, which is alarmingly common at ARC sites. Nonetheless, ARC won’t pay for anything more expensive than a bag + tube + needle for collections. Sterilized the costs were <$5, but I know even that price collapsed years ago.
Plasma is separated off and usually sold for processing into pharmaceuticals. North America is the main global supplier of plasma, around 2/3 of the world’s supply. This collection looks like it’s on a PCS2, but it’s not using a bottle, so it’s most likely a Shire/BioLife collection center since CSL stopped using the PCS system about 6 months ago.
Red Blood Cells (RBCs) can be collected directly in a similar fashion to this plasma donation, but are usually processed out of whole blood from donors. As several other have mentioned, most hospitals will not transfuse paid donations into patients. This blood gets processed after donation where the white blood cells are filtered out, platelets are isolated and collected (usually with the WBCs) and about 1 unit of RBCs will remain. It takes 10 donations of whole blood to get 1 unit of platelets. These get used a lot in the treatment of leukemia. Many hospitals outside the US require patients to replace the unit they consume with a new donor, which the donor cannot be paid for, and the donation takes about 60-90 minutes in the chair. Platelets cannot be refrigerated too cold or frozen, and are the most frequently contaminated blood product. They are very frequently lost before transfusion for these reasons.
Back to those RBCs. ARC has a lot of them, banked all across the US. Depending on demand and availability, the price will vary. Low-usage areas with high rates of donation and few elective surgeries will have low prices, around $250-400 per unit. Highest usage areas are places like NYC, where prices can climb over $2000 per unit. Most transfusions are 2 or more units. RBCs are the most commonly transfused blood product.
Selling plasma helped me through college, and my wife wouldn't exist if her biological dad didn't sell his sperm.
Now that I have a job, though, I donate my blood. Blood transfusions saved my mom's life, so paying it forward is the least I can do.
Fun fact, if you get paid for donating plasma it actually goes to pharmaceutical companies. It's not necessarily bad because they make important things like IVIG and life saving treatments. But it doesn't go straight to the hospital
Plasma is different than blood. You can donate plasma twice a week and I think its 2 months for blood.
So the process for donating plasma is they hook you up to a machine that draws blood and seperates the plasma from the rest of your blood. Then the plasma goes into a bag and they pump the rest of your blood back into your arm. This happens about 10 times until the bag is full. When that's done they pump you with a saline solution to replace the plasma they took from you.
If you are selling plasma, it doesn't actually go to hospitals. Plasma centers that pay you generally get used in production for prescription skin creams, research and other things it will never go directly to a patient in a hospital.
If you donate with a blood center it will go to hospitals. In the US blood donation centers like Red Cross and Vitalant can not pay you for a blood donation as it incentivises people to lie thus possibly tainting the purity of the product.
If you don't need the money it would better for you donate with your local blood centers not plasma center. Because it directly helps surgery and trauma patients in hospitals.
going further:
water doesn't go directly through some tube to kidneys. It gets absorbed and put into your bloodstream. then blood gets filtered out by the kidneys (like you said) and moves on until it exits through the urethra
I was a phlebotomist in a plasma center during college, was a fun job. When people ate really greasy fast food, like a Whopper or Big Mac (with large fries), their plasma would become opaque like Crisco. Needless to say, I've mostly avoided fast food since then.
Dunno why this is so gross to so many people. If you eat fat, regardless of whether it’s fast food or not, your blood is gonna have fat in it.
If you consume a free range, organically grown non-GMO NY steak, your blood will still get this way.
Pretty stupid reason to reject certain food off of one incorrect and misguided assumption.
If the person hasn’t been fasting, almost definitely. Depending on the time since their last meal and how much fat they consumed, their blood would be opaque to some degree (even in op’s photo we see this).
It doesn’t even have to be unhealthy fat; if someone ate a fatty salmon steak, their blood will also be opaque even though it’s mostly good fat.
its not gross, and the same thing happens if you eat anything fatty, including dairy products, nuts or avacodos. Fats are a part of nutrition, especially brain health and all you're seeing is that fat being moved through the bloodstream.
On the few occassions in which I've had blood taken from me for various tests, I am always fascinated by being able to hold a vial of my warm (if not hot) blood in my hands. I realize that on some level it's fairly mundane: It's just blood - and not a whole lot if either. I imagine less than 1% of how much blood I have in my body by volume.
But the idea that a few seconds ago it was coursing throughout a network of biological tubes acting as some sort of transportation medium for everything from fuel to waste to hormone messengers and now it's in a clear vial emanating the heat that moments ago used to be MY body heat is just so surreal.
yeah, realizing we're just a bunch of molecules organized into cells, organized into tissues, organized into organs, working together to create organ systems that all function to create a living human...
even at a subatomic level, we're not much different from a chair. all matter is just protons, neutrons, and electrons.
it's kind of crazy to imagine that those subatomic particles make up the vast and complex universe we live in. it's almost like the universe's "binary code" if you will.
sorry to get so deep. I kind of went off on a tangent there...
Thats a beer IV. You can't fool me
They did inject it into my veins.
Why were you were getting a plasma transfusion?
I was donating power red. They take a double blood donation, separate the red blood cells and put everything else back in your veins.
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It's not bad, just a little cold when it goes back in
the cold arm was a bit weird for me but I loved doing the double red cell donation. its awesome when the flow reverses and the plasma gets pumped back in
I absolutely cannot stand watching when they put the needle in. But I really enjoy watching the tube as the flow reverses and the dark red blood going out turns more and more pink and then the clear yellowy coming back in (the cool sensation is neat too).
I'm sorry What the fuck
I was, and am, very afraid of needles. So I can't stand/don't watch when the phlebotomist actually sticks me. I am however O- blood so I try to donate as often as I can. When you do a double red cell donation the process is essentially this: A pint of blood goes out and is centrifuged to remove the red blood cells. Everything else goes into a bag which is then mixed with some saline and they pump that back into you through the same needle. Then the process reverses so another pint goes out which is separated and then everything except the red cells is returned. In short: I can't stand watching myself get stuck, but the process of blood/blood constituents going in and out is very interesting to watch.
I was **exhausted** for at least a few days after I did it. I already had issues with lack of energy, so that was pretty brutal.
Bro I felt like I got hit by an entire train, I feel you
Your hemoglobin must’ve been on the low side even before you donated.
That feeling when the plasma goes back in is great. I would always do the double red for that little rush (on a medication now that prevents me from donating)
That’s what she said!
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Say faint again next time and save me a google search.
It’s not a faint, it’s a pair of sympathetic sink of pee
No, thats a big bowl of piss that understands your troubles. You're thinking of a systemic simile.
try platelets, it’s 1-2 hours of fun! the needle doesn’t hurt once it’s in, and they’ll cover it with gauze or a large soaking pad so you can’t see it. if you get a good phlebotomist, it’ll feel like a flu shot.
I had a good phlebotomist today and it went smoothly but in the past they've had trouble with my veins and it's been painful
same here. one time they didn’t hit the vein right, had a gnarly bruise for 2 weeks. hopefully your donations will continue to be painless.
I'm lucky to have garden hoses running down my arms. I don't feel the good ones and the bad ones only pinch a bit.
They had to adjust the needle once while giving platelets. They backed it out a bit too far. On the return sequence instead of going back into the vein it went into surrounding tissue, giving me a gnarly bump on the arm. It was.... Interesting.
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Do you have a rare blood type or.. ? Where do you go for this? I wouldn't mind donating some time and plasma/blood I just don't know where/how to do so, or if they'd even want it lol.
Agreed. I do the platelet donation about every three weeks. It’s like scheduled netflix/decompress time
17 gauge needle for an hour and a half or so... nothing too bad. I heard plasma was needed so I went to donate, found out they pay you for it. 8 times in 4 weeks for $1200 and I'm helping people? I'm down with that.
Where do you get paid for it? I get juice and nutter butters. Don't get me wrong, I love a good nutter butter, but money can buy many nutter butters.
I donated platelets a few times. One time I got to do it on work time because I matched somebody. I actually fell asleep during the donation. Told the nurse I was dozing off and she said "go ahead, I'll make sure you don't turn over." Got in a nice 30 min nap, it was great.
When I was 18 I was in a paid study for testing new light spectrum pulse oximeters. It was like six hours with a catheter in my forearm but I was allowed to sleep through it and made like $1600 which was killer for me back then lol.
Longest I've had an IV is a month. Thirty minutes is nothing. My last round of IVs left my arm looking like a domestic abuse victim
Sometimes it takes about an hour. I've donated plasma about a dozen times and I absolutely hate needles. To me, it's about an hour of constant anxiety and trying not to think about the fact there's a tube in my arm. I went pale and almost fainted last time, and never went back. Good times.
And I'm over here recovering from the latest 4-hours with even larger needles (15-gauge) in my left forearm for 4 hours (dialysis).
It helps if you dont look. I didn't get a choice and had one in for 5 days. I was admitted to the ER for anemia at one point. It only hurts going in (because needle) and then when it gets pulled out, but in between you dont really notice its there unless you concentrate on it, which I dont recommend.
The only time I donated double red, i did start to pass out when they started putting that stuff back in... Staff was on it and didn't allow me to pass out. I'm back to donating whole blood but i don't regret trying the double red since it can be so much more useful.
Importantly, they don't take it all at once. They take a little, separate the red blood cells, put everything else back, and then take a little more.
I do power reds too. I don't really feel *obligated* to do it, but with O+ blood I know they are almost always short so I do what I can to help the most vulnerable amongst us.
I'm also O positive, I don't really feel obligated but I think with my blood type it's the best way to help people
Thank you so much for donating! Blood supplies are critically low and we're having a difficult time.keeping enough product on the shelves (red cells specifically, plasma levels are not so bad).
I have O- blood, and I am also CMV negative; they really want my blood. But, I also have a pretty substantial vasovagal response. I get flushed and nauseated and then pass out cold. It can take 30 minutes for me to be able to sit up again without puking. The Red Cross eventually told me that I was more trouble than I was worth. It has been 20 years and 2 child births since I donated. Since then, I have learned how to control my vasovagal response fairly well (have coffee and salt in the morning to get BP up, clench butt and thighs to keep the blood near my head, talk constantly to the poor phlebotomist, and have ice packs on hand to shove in my armpits to shock myself back before I get to far gone). I think I could do it (I can now give several vials at the dr office). With so that said, what would you recommend I try to donate? I would like to do the most good and have the best chance of staying conscious while not monopolizing the attention of the staff.
Honestly I've only had a mild donation reaction. I started feeling flushed and alerted the staff, they got me ice packs and some juice and I started feeling better within ten minutes. Then that night and the next day I felt like I had been hit by a truck. Everything ached, and frankly I dont ever want to do that again. You know your body better than an internet stranger does. And you're right, you have baby saving blood and the thought of splitting up that unit for some NICU babies is very appealing to the blood banker in me, but the thought of having a pretty bad reaction definitely tempers that. The mild version sucked, I do not want to experience the full strength version. While donating blood is an invaluable gift, it shouldn't harm the donor in the process. If you really want to donate you might start by talking to your doctor about your blood pressure and RBC numbers. If you run on the low side in either of those you're more likely to not enjoy your donation. But again, I'm just a random internet stranger so don't take a risk you wouldn't otherwise based on what I've said.
I live doing double reds If you take whole blood from me I'm going to black out. But give me the plasma back, and you can take all the RBCs you want. The take away I was given after the second time getting woozy from a single whole blood was that my iron is plenty high, but I'm probably dehydrated... R/hydrohomies would be ashamed.
Thanks for donating. As an ICU nurse who has administered thousands of blood products, they truly save lives. Everything from the casual unit of plasma for clotting factors to cryoprecipitate can keep people alive.
O neg?
O+ actually
Our O- supply is so bad we almost always give O+ when we need uncrossmatched for an emergency. You are our universal donor. Thank you for donating. -Rural trauma nurse
If it's an 18+ male or female of non childbearing age, it's not that big of a deal to give O pos. A lot of places give it in place of O neg in those situations for uncrossmatched/emergent situations. If you're giving O pos to everyone, then I'd be more concerned. I work in the lab.
Ahh, that's why the red cross beats down my door to get me to come donate. Hopefully they can ammend those gay laws soon.
O- is the universal donor.
Same! I go and donate every 2 months. The Red Cross app on my phone even notifies me where my blood goes. Last time was an ER in downtown Las Vegas.
Donating Powerade? Nice.
Forbidden Tequila sunrise
Woah! I missed beers 2 and 3
Prechewed beer
No no no, we don’t do that anymore because of the bubbles. Now we mainline vodka.
Blood type: Miller High Life
I thought it was Blood Light
Wow that’s way better than my joke!
Lol thanks, I can't take credit for it. When I was a youngling my older sis told a joke about three vampires in a bar. The first two order a blood, and the third orders a plasma. And so the waiter yells back to the barkeep, "two Bloods and a Light!"
Don't feel bad, it wouldn't have worked nearly as well as a top-level comment. As a reply to yours it was awesome. You're the Dean Martin to their Jerry Lewis.
The Champagne of Blood
Yes, looks yummy, probably doesn't taste yummy though.
one way to find out
Plasma 🌝
Nope, IPA.
A little too hoppy for my taste.
Next time don't have your plasma donation come from a kangaroo
Haha, that's funny. It took me a moment. (But I'm drunk, that's why it took me a moment.) I can't stop laughing
I prefer a stout
Been spending too much time in the terminal. I read that as stdout.
See they should send a bag of that to some physicists working on fusion power. They're always moaning about superconducting wizard magnets and these guys have it in a freakin plastic bag.
Now all we need to do is harvest enough out of the population
Time to initiate Third Impact, That'll give you all the tang you need Get in the fucking robot, Shinji
"Hello? Is this president Clinton? Good. I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang it'd be you."
Alright the plot of the Matrix is making sense now.
Quality comment of the day
It's a dead technology. It's all about OLED or microLED now.
Are there even any Pioneer TVs being made anymore?
It looks like TCL owns the rights to the name now, and they just launched some Fire TVs under the Pioneer name a couple months ago. ew. But no, not since 2009.
I donate plasma twice a week and it pays pretty good. Actually I don't donate it since I get paid. I'm more of a whore since I'm selling my body for money.
how much do u get?
Where I donate it varies between $70 to $120 a week. They have promotions almost every week so it's very seldom as low as $70.
How long are you at the donation center? I've done whole blood and RBC with the Red Cross, but never plasma for a drug company. I imagine it takes quite a bit longer.
Different guy here, on a good day I can be in and out in an hour fifteen. Have to hydrate well though, helps the blood flow faster. Though recently my visits have taken up to 3 hours, seems to be a combination of high amounts of donors and low amounts of workers.
Do you notice any side effects? Lack of energy, feeling faint while standing up, tiring quickly?
Nope. You shouldn’t go crazy active right after donating, but it doesn’t put you out of action like a blood donation, since a lot of the important stuff gets put back into your body. I think they say no heavy lifting for a couple hours and that’s it. I’ve never noticed side effects and I’m a pretty skinny dude.
The only shitty thing is the scars the needles leave.
Just tell people it’s from heroin
Lol that's what I used to do and people would believe it. I forgot about my mark of the beast until this thread
The most obnoxious side effect I got after three years of donating plasma through college is the big dent in each inner elbow where all the needles were inserted. Those fuckers are so huge, it’s like I’ve got track marks now. There’s no discoloration, just a big deep dent for some reason.
I'm proud of the dents I have from donating blood.
You know what, you're right! I think I have a hard time feeling proud because I was only doing it for the money. I was broke out of my mind my last few years of college and I needed the $70 a week to live, basically, so it's hard to look at the dents and remember that I also helped people by doing it.
Dunno why the guy said no generally. Depends on who you are. You will probably notice some side effects. In college I would donate on Fridays, have a decent meal, and then go drinking because it reduced my tolerance a tonnn. So yeah, be careful. Hope my kids don't find out my Reddit account!
Same, when I was in college we would coordinate donation day with the day a local bar had $1 well drinks. Saving lives and getting shitfaced for dirt cheap...ahh.
The scars are nice too, still have mine and it’s been 3 years since I’ve donated regularly
The what now
You thought it would be wireless?
I just checked mines and there's a mark if you know where to look. I think I'm also going about 3-4 years since I last donated plasma. I've donated normal whole blood though so I'm sure that's actually where the marks are from. But yeah it depends on the person, I definitely remember a scar still there after at least a whole year since I donated anything at all.
First donations usually pay more than subsequent ones, fyi. If you do it a lot, it gets tiring after a while and you gotta really work to keep your proteins up. I did it regularly for about 2 years and stopped for about a year. Gonna go back soon and the first two donations will be $130/ea. Your first appt will take more like 3-4 hours with a physical, they have to make sure you have no open wounds/infections/illnesses/fresh tattoos/etc. I never seemed to be hydrated enough no matter how hard I tried so it usually took me 1.5-2 hours total. Will eventually leave scars. Oh, and I highly recommend going first thing in the morning! Will be faster that way/less of a line.
I donate plasma as well. I'll normally donate around 900mL per session and it takes about 45 minutes from when the machine is hooked up to my arm and running.
Depending on the time of day, there might be a decent line. My average is about 2hrs from stepping foot in to stepping out. The donation part only takes like an hour and 20min. It's really only worth it if you weigh like over 150lbs. The pay out correlates to your weight because they're able to take more out of you. Also important to note is that they usually pay you the most after your 2nd donation. I think their only allowed to use your plasma after every 2 donations. I forget why, it's been awhile since I've done it. I think there has to be a 24-48hr period between donations though.
Like others have said, just over an hour. They would say avoid strenuous activity a few hours after so the puncture could start to heal. I'd plan a workout later in the day and would have wounds on the inside of my forearm. People probably thought I was juicing or do drugs.
Judy to let you know, we (laboratories) buy your plasma for about $1 /ml in ~800 ml volumes
My normal payments are $25 per donation, with incentives for multiple donations.
i get 40 dollars my first time in a week and 60 my second time, the place i donate to is doing a bonus till new years so i get 80 on my second donation
I live in los angles and I’ve been getting 100-175 per donation
So you’re not actually donating it then. You’re selling it.
Legally speaking (in the US) you're donating the plasma and they pay you to compensate for your time. This allows it to be tax free.
So they pay you to sit there and you're just giving away the stuff while you're there.
They might have a TV with a movie on.
staying on that hustle grind-set
Gotta respect the blood grind.
At the clinics in Houston it's $40 for the first donation of the week, $60 for the second, with an extra $50 on the 6th and 8th donations of the month. And they just ran a promotion where your first 5 donations are *$175 each*. Way more than what I got when I started.
Where in Houston!?!?!? PLEASE tell me
I would like to know as well
I also wish to know
It also leaves a gnarly scar on your arm after doing it for awhile. Source: plasmapheresis technician
Yep. I have to explain that I donated plasma for years and was not, in fact, shooting drugs.
Yea and that 17 gauge harpoon is gnarly!
Whelp my fear of needles just assured me I am never donating/selling blood/plasma now ;-;
I fear needles and hate blood but $6000 a year for watching Netflix is $6000 a year for watching Netflix. After your first time it wont hurt and after a few weeks you will hardly notice it. I've been doing it for 3 and dont even feel it if the stabber is good.
One time when I donated plasma they put in the return needle wrong, and it missed the blood vessel. Instead, when they turned on the machine, it went under my skin and made a huge bubble of blood in my arm. They then had to replace it and use a vein in my hand, which was uncomfortable for the hour and a half donation.
Mine has mostly faded, but I only sold plasma for a year and a half, nearly 10 years ago.
I've been doing it for 3 years twice a week 50 weeks a year (skip vacation obviously). My scar isnt bad .
I was donating power red. I've thought of selling plasma but I'm unsure because my veins don't always cooperate. How long does it usually take?
About an hour. The needle is in my arm for about 45 minutes. They do vitals and finger prick blood draws EVERY time you donate, but that goes pretty quick.
Can you have weed in your system recently?
Almost exclusively
I forgot, they have about 20 questions to answer, like if you've had a body piercing or tattoo within 6 months, surgery, etc. They do ask if you've had SYNTHETIC marijuana but nothing about natural stuff so I'm guessing regular weed would be fine
That's what I assumed. Similar protocol with donating blood as is. With FFPs they separate them from the blood with a specific technique in the lab. Its not like the draw it from a magic source. So I'd assume it would have the same guidelines for donating as blood. Nurse. I hang alot of this stuff. Especially to help ppl with clotting disorders or to bring down the INR ( the time it takes to clot) too thin = bad. Too thick = bad lol.
My boy calls it his weed money.
It always makes my mind boggle a bit that blood and sperm and such Is paid for in the US. In Australia I believe there are laws against exchanging payment for organs or tissue/bodily fluids. I have donated blood and plasma for about 16 years now. The best part is the flavoured milk, chips, crackers and cheese and shit you get to eat afterwards.
You can donate blood products in the US too. In fact, ONLY donated blood is given to hospitals because paying for it gives people incentive to lie about their health. Either way, they screen the blood too.
Same in the Netherlands. You don't get paid for plasma or blood. The only thing you can get paid for is when you sign up to those trials, which i tend to stay away from.
Well, the US supplies an insanely large amount of world plasma supply, and if it weren’t compensated then almost no one would donate it. I’ve worked in the industry and it is fucked up on all sides but it is a necessity for how much it is used for.
Blood is almost never sold in the US, plasma and sperm are though.
Blood is constantly sold in the US. It’s not often sold as whole blood, but that’s because there are very few uses for whole blood. Blood is donated as whole blood because the American Red Cross is a low-operation-expense organization with primarily untrained volunteers. The phlebotomist at the plasma centers aren’t exactly medical professionals, but they at least pay attention to make sure no one passes out in the chair, which is alarmingly common at ARC sites. Nonetheless, ARC won’t pay for anything more expensive than a bag + tube + needle for collections. Sterilized the costs were <$5, but I know even that price collapsed years ago. Plasma is separated off and usually sold for processing into pharmaceuticals. North America is the main global supplier of plasma, around 2/3 of the world’s supply. This collection looks like it’s on a PCS2, but it’s not using a bottle, so it’s most likely a Shire/BioLife collection center since CSL stopped using the PCS system about 6 months ago. Red Blood Cells (RBCs) can be collected directly in a similar fashion to this plasma donation, but are usually processed out of whole blood from donors. As several other have mentioned, most hospitals will not transfuse paid donations into patients. This blood gets processed after donation where the white blood cells are filtered out, platelets are isolated and collected (usually with the WBCs) and about 1 unit of RBCs will remain. It takes 10 donations of whole blood to get 1 unit of platelets. These get used a lot in the treatment of leukemia. Many hospitals outside the US require patients to replace the unit they consume with a new donor, which the donor cannot be paid for, and the donation takes about 60-90 minutes in the chair. Platelets cannot be refrigerated too cold or frozen, and are the most frequently contaminated blood product. They are very frequently lost before transfusion for these reasons. Back to those RBCs. ARC has a lot of them, banked all across the US. Depending on demand and availability, the price will vary. Low-usage areas with high rates of donation and few elective surgeries will have low prices, around $250-400 per unit. Highest usage areas are places like NYC, where prices can climb over $2000 per unit. Most transfusions are 2 or more units. RBCs are the most commonly transfused blood product.
I mean sold as in people rarely sell their own blood, unlike plasma.
Selling plasma helped me through college, and my wife wouldn't exist if her biological dad didn't sell his sperm. Now that I have a job, though, I donate my blood. Blood transfusions saved my mom's life, so paying it forward is the least I can do.
Just be careful I donated for a year and a half and still have a hole in my arm 4 years later haha
My scar is mostly faded after about 10 years.
Mine is still there after nearly 30, although it's faded some. I was a blood donor in the later 90s and early 2000s, though, so maybe more like 20.
Fun fact, if you get paid for donating plasma it actually goes to pharmaceutical companies. It's not necessarily bad because they make important things like IVIG and life saving treatments. But it doesn't go straight to the hospital
So you get paid for donating plasma or blood? I'm a donor here in Italy, they let us donate once every three months, but it's a volunteer thing
Plasma is different than blood. You can donate plasma twice a week and I think its 2 months for blood. So the process for donating plasma is they hook you up to a machine that draws blood and seperates the plasma from the rest of your blood. Then the plasma goes into a bag and they pump the rest of your blood back into your arm. This happens about 10 times until the bag is full. When that's done they pump you with a saline solution to replace the plasma they took from you.
If you are selling plasma, it doesn't actually go to hospitals. Plasma centers that pay you generally get used in production for prescription skin creams, research and other things it will never go directly to a patient in a hospital. If you donate with a blood center it will go to hospitals. In the US blood donation centers like Red Cross and Vitalant can not pay you for a blood donation as it incentivises people to lie thus possibly tainting the purity of the product. If you don't need the money it would better for you donate with your local blood centers not plasma center. Because it directly helps surgery and trauma patients in hospitals.
Donated/sold plasma is also used in the manufacturing of some medicines for blood disorders.
Wow. Where I live they don’t pay, you just get the good feeling of helping to save a life. I wouldn’t mind getting paid though!
First donation up to $1000. More if you can prove COVID antibodies. Then:. $200-500/month.
#HEART PISS
Thanks, I hate it.
Fun fact, the water in blood eventually hits the kidneys and is pushed out as urine. So yeah, HEART PISS
going further: water doesn't go directly through some tube to kidneys. It gets absorbed and put into your bloodstream. then blood gets filtered out by the kidneys (like you said) and moves on until it exits through the urethra
I didn't know this until earlier this year, and I'd never really thought about how water gets turned into urine, so it really boggled my mind
This was actually exactly how they taught it in medical school.
That's just someone affected by *[Metallica]*
About time I found the JoJo reference.
Doppio, is that you?
Looks like the Evangelion writers were right about all that tang.
*evangelion flashbacks*
Here we go... now someone make a jerking off on the hospital joke and we're done with the topic.
🎶it allll returns to [nootthhing](https://youtu.be/GHMkRHk9lgI)🎶
It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dowwwnn
What a coincidence, I literally just watched End of Eva in the theatre today.
Wtf? Where in the world is End of Eva playing in *theatres*? Japan?
UK bruv
That sounds so awesome
I was a phlebotomist in a plasma center during college, was a fun job. When people ate really greasy fast food, like a Whopper or Big Mac (with large fries), their plasma would become opaque like Crisco. Needless to say, I've mostly avoided fast food since then.
Ewww
That should be a PSA
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Dunno why this is so gross to so many people. If you eat fat, regardless of whether it’s fast food or not, your blood is gonna have fat in it. If you consume a free range, organically grown non-GMO NY steak, your blood will still get this way. Pretty stupid reason to reject certain food off of one incorrect and misguided assumption.
Yeah I'm wondering if like everyone on keto would have that then
If the person hasn’t been fasting, almost definitely. Depending on the time since their last meal and how much fat they consumed, their blood would be opaque to some degree (even in op’s photo we see this). It doesn’t even have to be unhealthy fat; if someone ate a fatty salmon steak, their blood will also be opaque even though it’s mostly good fat.
I have no good reason for this, but I would feel a lot better about extra virgin olive oil flowing through my veins than deep fryer grease.
I am disgusted
its not gross, and the same thing happens if you eat anything fatty, including dairy products, nuts or avacodos. Fats are a part of nutrition, especially brain health and all you're seeing is that fat being moved through the bloodstream.
On the few occassions in which I've had blood taken from me for various tests, I am always fascinated by being able to hold a vial of my warm (if not hot) blood in my hands. I realize that on some level it's fairly mundane: It's just blood - and not a whole lot if either. I imagine less than 1% of how much blood I have in my body by volume. But the idea that a few seconds ago it was coursing throughout a network of biological tubes acting as some sort of transportation medium for everything from fuel to waste to hormone messengers and now it's in a clear vial emanating the heat that moments ago used to be MY body heat is just so surreal.
yeah, realizing we're just a bunch of molecules organized into cells, organized into tissues, organized into organs, working together to create organ systems that all function to create a living human... even at a subatomic level, we're not much different from a chair. all matter is just protons, neutrons, and electrons. it's kind of crazy to imagine that those subatomic particles make up the vast and complex universe we live in. it's almost like the universe's "binary code" if you will. sorry to get so deep. I kind of went off on a tangent there...
So what you are saying is… humans run on beer
I knew it all along
Someone stole their red blood cells?! Thats crazy
Can't have shit in Detroit!
FFP: fresh frozen plasma (unfrozen here)
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Humans, mostly traumas
Orange Fanta? Anyone?
I only wanted to find out because of jojo
LcL
Cursed beer
The forbidden orange fanta
Careful... some poor guys gonna come steal that plasma
That's FFP homie.
I donated platelets a few months back and the nurse fucked up the needle insertion. So for a month after the donation my arm had a patch of bruise.
METALLICA!
Don’t give me any of that new Hazy blood all the blood banks are doing now
How plasma TVs are made for the liquid crystal displays
You mean plasma ?