Blood/Plasma Donation

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Anybody does it?

I'm gonna visit our Bloodstation tomorrow. This is one of not so many places, where everybody loves me because of blood quality.
I was blood donor, now I give only plasma. It's more wanted and less agressive. Free day and sweets are the same

I hate blood pressure tests and I hate this band around my arm, but they say it's ok, because my pressure gets higher (it's quite low) and blood flows better

Tell sth about your experiences

When I was younger I used to donate blood more, I haven't done it in years, once I get my health and all back in order, I may start doing it again.

I have one of the less common blood types, so I gave blood one time. It took almost an hour, like it didn't want to leave my body. The lady kept re-positioning the needle too-very painful! I would give again, but now the Red Cross wont take my blood because I was in Germany. They fear the mad cow disease virus.

I wish I could, but I usually faint or semi-pass out whenever I'm pricked by a needle.
It's a highly admirable thing to do. But a panicking donor is of no use. There you go, this thread is already making me slightly light-headed !

No. The moronic health regulations here bar any man who's had gay sex from giving blood, full stop. Which in the context of what passes for my sex life (the sorry details of which can stay off Random) is downright farcical.

I have recently so much work, I spend all day in the school, it's negative for health. I said in other thread I'm orthorexic. I feel bad with it all.
And I'm REALLY afraid that my bloodtest won't be as perfect as always. How could I?

I donate platelets using a phoresus machine. That way I can donate every two weeks. In the U.S. whole blood donations have to be spaced 56 days or more. I am O+ CMV-

Being CMV- makes my donation particularly useful for newborns. They love my blood at the donation center. Whenever I schedule a donation the people their line on both sides and wave palm leaves.

ruveyn

my blood is not acceptable for medical use, for various reasons.

I have only been able to do it a few times between being pregnant/breastfeeding/tattoos/piercings but it always makes me feel really faint and unwell, probably because I am so small. I'm under the minimum weight now as well

I am currently not allowed due to health, I don't know if I ever will be well enough to be allowed but if I ever I am I'll definatley do it.

I'm not old enough to donate blood yet, but I am definetely considering it.

I can't do it because I forgot to lie the first time I tried to do it about seizures I used to have when I drank and they put me in some database and now I am an automatic refusal or whatever. I have tried but they always kick me out. I know people who do it regularly for the money, it's good quick money (well, not quick, but you know what I mean)

My blood loves me so it didn't want to flow. I was lying on the chair more than one hour. And alarm called three times
I know myself, my bloodtest was worse. Still ok and pretty, but not as perfect as before.

Indeed, I do it once a term when I can (couldn't last term when they came because I was sick).

I used to do it through school. You only need to be 16 here to donate blood and my school would organise trips for students on a minibus over to the hospital for it once a term.

My whole family is more or less banned from giving blood. My parents were told outright not to come back anymore, because it was too much of a hassle to get too little blood; they had to use children's needles, because their veins are so small. With my brother, it was the same problem, and he passed out; they didn't actually say don't come back, but it was implied.

With me, they thought it was going to be different at first. When they pricked my finger to test (for diseases or blood type or whatever they test for), I bled a lot. When they tried to start taking blood, however, they couldn't find a vein. Once they finally did, they left me alone for ten or fifteen minutes, then decided it wasn't going fast enough and adjusted the needle. When they adjusted the needle, they hit the side of my vein, which caused it to bruise, so after another few minutes, they couldn't get any blood at all. I gave a little over a quarter of a bag. Again, the implication was please don't come back.

I can't give blood until June now anyway, since I got a tattoo last year. After that time is up, I might try again.