Does anyone know anything about Bone Marrow Transplant? Is it painful for the giver? Any aftereffects to giver

Question

I think I have universal blood? Could I do it? Please someone answer all questions, all are important questions.

Answer 1

You can register with the national bone donor marrow registry, as I did. I am O+, but a lot more than your ABO types and Rhesus factors are involved. It is based on tissue typing. I registered in a drive to help a local high school student, but was never called.
Donating marrow does involve extracting marrow from your bones, but you are under anesthesia. I am going to paste info from the Registry site. Sorry to be lazy, but I'm tired and need to go to sleep.

"Marrow donation is a surgical procedure performed in a hospital. While the donor receives anesthesia, doctors use special, hollow needles to withdraw liquid marrow from the donor's pelvic bones. Many donors receive a transfusion of their own previously donated blood. A donor's marrow is completely replaced within four to six weeks.


PBSC donation takes place at an apheresis center. To increase the number of blood-forming cells in the bloodstream, donors receive daily injections of a drug called filgrastim for five days before the collection. The donor's blood is then removed through a sterile needle in one arm, passed through a machine that separates out the cells used in transplantation, and the remaining blood is returned through the other arm.

Cord blood is collected from the umbilical cord after a baby's birth. The cord blood is taken to a cord blood bank where it is tested. Cord blood units that meet eligibility standards are frozen and stored for future use. The collection does not pose any health risk to the mother or baby, and does not affect the birth process in any way.

Does donating hurt? What are the side effects?
Marrow donors can expect to feel some soreness in their lower back for a few days or longer. Donors also have reported feeling tired and having some difficulty walking. Most donors are back to their usual routine in a few days. Some may take two to three weeks before they feel completely recovered.


PBSC donors report varying symptoms including headache, bone or muscle pain, nausea, insomnia and fatigue while receiving injections of filgrastim. These effects disappear shortly after collection. During the collection, donors may experience a tingling feeling or chills. These effects go away shortly after donating. When asked about their discomfort, most donors are quick to point out that it was worth it to help save a life, and they would be willing to do it again.

Answer 2

First you have to give blood and they test you to make sure you have no underlying diseases or anything, i.e. they don't allow anyone who's ever had cancer or anything like that to give blood let alone bone marrow. Then they will, if you are fine, put you in their data bank and if you come up as a match for someone they call you and explain the things that you'll need to know. It is a little painful to have a bone marrow biopsy which I have had done but, not real bad, just a day of real soreness after that was fine. With the bone marrow transplant it's a little more complicated but you won't be ill. You will probably be tired for a while until your body builds the blood cells back to normal. It's much more difficult for the recepient. Very much like giving up your life to the procedure for months. The transplant is only the beginning, then they use drugs to keep the body from rejecting the donated marrow and they can't be exposed to any germs . So, they are isolated for long periods of time. About the blood matching. It is or they are also looking for more than just type matching for this, there are other blood markers that they want to match also, that means your type is fine but they also want other things to match to make sure the blood marrow isn't rejected. That is why you are put on a list of donors, they will be looking for someone with really close match to you to give your marrow to. This can be at a very short notice also, when they find a close match. You need to google and read more about it. good luck. If this is what you want to do, I commend you! I would but, I have a blood disorder and they don't want mine. Good people are still here aren't they. Bye. Yes, you can do it.

Answer 3

like everyone else wrote and yes it hurts to give bone marrow they knock your *** out while they take a two litters of marrow from your pelvis,they give you pain killers for the pain which usally last two weeks it feels like some one kicked you real hard. My brother was my donor. When your awake through a bone marrow asperation its like theyre ripping nerves out. There is no permenate affects you body makes more of it. If you donate you can only do it once a year. register with the bone marrow orgs its worth saving lifes!

Answer 4

Dogs will have to NEVER accept cooked bones as as soon as they are cooked they may be able to splinter. Raw bones are exceptional for his or her tooth. For enormous puppies, knuckle bones are well and for small puppies, uncooked hen necks are well. By the way in which, rawhide bones can swell of their our bodies and create issues. I'd under no circumstances deliver a puppy a rawhide bone.

Answer 5

i heard it is very painful for both the giver and reciever (keep in mind thats not from experience at all)

Answer 6

it all depend on your needle tollerance