They do numb you for a bone marrow biopsy so you won't feel much pain.
A bone marrow test is not overly painful as you will have a numbing agent injected first.
When the numbing agent is injected you will feel a sharp sting and then you may feel a brief dull pain when the bone marrow biopsy needle is inserted.
Also you may feel some discomfort inside the bone as that part cannot be numbed.
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.
Even donating bone marrow is painless as well.
Donating or giving bone marrow is not really dangerous and is relatively safe for the bone marrow donator.
The only real risk with donating bone marrow is the use of anesthesia and it's effects on some people but even that is pretty safe.
Most bone marrow surgeries to donate bone marrow go through without any problems.
But you might feel sore for a few days where the bone marrow was removed from.
Donating bone marrow does not shorten your life.
When you donate bone marrow the bone marrow that was removed from you for donation will eventually grow back on it's own.
So you will get the bone marrow back naturally when you donate your bone marrow.
So you'll still have new bone marrow growing in place of the old donated bone marrow.
It's a myth that your life will be shorted when donating bone marrow.
Many people who donate bone marrow go on to live a normal life expectancy.
It's worth it to donate bone marrow to save lives.