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The placebo effect requires you to not know you're taking a placebo (patients in these studies are not told what it is about, they're just given pills/injections etc.) I can't think of a way you could feasibly set up a scenario where you were A) testing yourself for "the placebo effect", and B) not aware you are being given a placebo.
Is there a proven way to test if I'm susceptible to the placebo effect?
2 Related: Why use a placebo in some potential COVID-19 vaccine trials? What is the point of a placebo in studies where the subject can determine their group? The answers to the questions above give some very good reasons why a placebo or control group is necessary even when 'common sense' seems to indicate that it is not.
However, in order for the study to stay blind so that long term effects can be observed, they cannot be told they received a placebo. How do the pharmaceutical companies deal with this issue?