My second plasma donation was going fine untill the last draw and i got dizzy and sick....why?

[Bjazzy81]

Hi friends, i am stationed here at NATTC Pensacola and I donate 2x a week when able. Talecris here lays each donor $50 per donation and some months they have a bonus incentive for the 7th donation of the month being an extra $50 for that one. I had a weird experience my last as well, hot, pale, it’s your body thinking it’s going into shock. I’m taking a couple weeks off to let my body recover but I’ll def be going back.
Have a great week everyone!

[KathrynAragon]

Sigh. I am jealous. I used to give blood and plasma regularly and then all of a sudden, they added the question about whether or not I'd lived in Europe for more than 90 days or something like that, in the 90s - which I had. So now, and indefinitely, I am unable to give any blood products, including plasma. I might have mad cow disease and just not know it yet, thirty years later.