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I actually donate about twice a week to help pay bills. I agree with people hearing about the practice of blood for money and saying “that doesn’t sound healthy.”. I actually feel awful for 24 hours or more post donation.
It’s also really cool you don’t get saline anymore because the US is out of it. Just a Powerade and goldfish so you don’t pass out driving home
Wait wait I signed up on some site promising me 800 bucks if I donate plasma like 7 times in a month.
Should I not be doing that?
I just read instruction from the Polish program of Honorary Blood Donor* and it said that a healthy adult person should not donate more than 8 times per year.
*remnant of socialist healthcare which got retained even in capitalism because it works and is popular, participation is actually rising steadily since 2000
I do it, and it gets me the money I need to pay bills. If you can zone out, donate, and bounce it’s not the worst thing you can do for money.
I just get a bit angry when I think about too hard. The other comment is correct, the sign up bonuses are decent,.and I currently use the same donation center
until they poke through a vein and your arm swells up for a week
i think i got some kind of disease from doing this so often tbh… i get these awful rashes on the insides of my elbows that i never had prior to doing the donations
ive done this thru biolife. imo its worth it for those visits but once you get all that paid out it drops to like 20 dollars per donation, and it takes like 2-3 hrs for the whole process so it becomes not worth it.
also biolife, the company i used was constantly trying to not apply coupons you came in to redeem. the last time i went they didnt apply my coupon, i went back and told them and she “fixed it” but surprise surprise it was never fixed so i never went back
I’m like 95% sure it is through BioLife. Ty for the thoughts