The symptoms of bone marrow disease are bone pain, easy bruising or bleeding, frequent infections, pale appearance, shortness of breath and fatigue.
When you have bone marrow disease there are problems with the stem cells or how they develop.
In leukemia, a cancer of the blood, the bone marrow makes abnormal white blood cells.
In aplastic anemia, the bone marrow doesn't make red blood cells.
In myeloproliferative disorders, the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells.
If you have a bone marrow test and the bone marrow test is negative then it is good news and means there is no bone marrow cancer or other bone marrow disease that was found.
However if you do get a negative bone marrow test and your doctor still suspects a problem then they may order another bone marrow biopsy or other tests to investigate further.
If the bone marrow test is positive it can be a sign that you have cancer or a blood or bone marrow disorder or you may also have anemia.
Your doctor will usually order other tests if the bone marrow tests positive and if you are testing positive for cancer of the bone marrow or blood then the doctor will want to start treatment for the cancer.
Cancers that are detected by bone marrow and bone marrow tests are myeloma, lymphoma and leukemia cancers.
A bone marrow test is used to diagnose and test for conditions such as cancer of the bone marrow, anemia and blood cell conditions such as polycythemia, pancytopenia, thrombocytosis, thrombocytopenia, keukocytosis and leukopenia.
A doctor would order a bone marrow test when they suspect you have cancer of the bone marrow and to examine the tissue and fluid in the bone marrow.
The bone marrow tests helps the doctor determine whether cancer or other disease is affecting your marrow or blood cells and to help the doctor determine the extent of the disease.
And even some changes to your blood cells can be detected in the marrow samples before they are able to be seen in blood samples.
After you have a bone marrow transplant you should ideally wait for at least 1 year before you go back to work.
Doctors usually suggest bone marrow transplant recipients to wait at least 1 year after the bone marrow transplant to go back to work until.
That's because it takes 9 to 12 months for your immune system to recover.
Some people may get their doctor's okay to go back to work sooner.
To fully recover from a bone marrow transplant it may take between 3 to 4 months although some people recover in 2 to 6 weeks.
After you've had a bone marrow transplant it takes between 6 to 12 months to know if the bone marrow transplant worked and was a success.
When the new stem cells multiply, they make more blood cells.
Then your blood counts will go back up. This is one way to know if a bone marrow transplant was a success.
You can in rare cases die from a bone marrow transplant.
Some people who have a bone marrow transplant die as a result of complications and experience reactions that can follow any medical procedure, including: shortness of breath. a drop in blood pressure.
A bone marrow transplant is both pretty safe for most people while also pretty dangerous for other people at the same time.
Bone marrow transplants can be dangerous and carry serious risk but most people come out fine when they have a bone marrow transplant.
A bone marrow transplant poses numerous risks.
Some people experience minimal problems with a bone marrow transplant, while others can have serious complications that require treatment or hospitalization.
Sometimes, complications are life-threatening.
The life expectancy after a bone marrow transplant varies depending on your age and current overall health.
However some people live a normal life after a bone marrow transplant and some live only 5 to 15 years after the bone marrow transplant.
The life expectancy of a person after a bone marrow transplant is between 5 to 15 years and sometimes longer as long as the bone marrow transplant takes.
Most bone marrow transplants take just fine and then the person is cured and lives a normal life expectancy.
My Grandmother had a bone marrow transplant and lived 30 years after the bone marrow transplant.
Your age and current health can factor into the life expectancy after the bone marrow transplant.
A bone marrow transplant is painless as you'll be given anesthesia when you have the bone marrow transplant done.
You may be awake during the bone marrow transplant but you won't feel a thing during the procedure.
Stem cells for bone marrow transplants are infused into your body through a central line and it's painless.