How did they find test subjects for this?

chacham posted a pic said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 12:07pm ET

How did they find test subjects for this? Especially, considering people don’t want to be test subjects.

Can you imagine the ad for it?

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harrison said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 12:23pm ET:

I know a few people with ulcerative colitis, and it’s bad enough that if you had it you’d probably be willing to try something that gross-sounding yourself.

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mfladd said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 12:28pm ET:

I am not even going to tell you how I know about this, but I do.

FMT is most commonly used when patients have C-Diff (Clostridium difficile). Right now it is covered under medicare, but it is being used to the point that medicare will soon take a closer look. There are other options, but not covered

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/26/health/fecal-transplant-poop-medicine/ under medicare. Physicians like it because they are also paid to administer this.

Y can also make up to $13,000 a year if you are one of the lucky candidates accepted (lots of screening) in this process. But you better live in Massachusetts.

p.s. great gif for this thread.

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  mfladd said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 12:36pm ET
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sligett said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 12:41pm ET:

Can you imagine the ad for it? I hear this guy is available as spokescolon –

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joelmw said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 1:01pm ET:

I don’t have ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s or IBS, but I do have celiac disease. I’d totally take an FMT just to help with my symptoms, let alone any of those others–for which the immediate symptoms (if not necessarily the longterm) seem far worse. So, yeah, I doubt they had any trouble at all.

In fact, if I could have been put under and had medical professionals perform an FMT instead of the multiple, ahem, samples I’ve had to personally collect from my own fecal matter, I’d have done that in a heartbeat. I’m not sure how the FMT procedure goes or if there’s even sedation; and on one level, I don’t even know how relevant my remark is; I’m just saying that for ewww factor, I know what grosses me out more.

I just googled. It looks like they do it during a colonoscopy. They use the wonder drug with colonoscopies, so I’m totally down for that. Where do I sign up?

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Kidsandliz said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 2:11pm ET:

And if you are going to do this as the recipient you want to ask for a sample from a skinny donor as they have found that when it is from an overweight donor you gain a bunch of weight. Hmm a new diet “pill”?

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Barney said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 2:14pm ET:

I’m still waiting for my fuko.

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mikibell said Tue, May 24th 2016 at 3:42pm ET:

UC sufferer here… I have read up on it… not ready to try it, yet… or medical marijuana, legal in our state for the disease. However, I think marijuana is cheaper than the colitis drugs!!!

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