Donate Bone Marrow - Anyone ever done it?
 

Considering putting my name down as a bone marrow donor. Anyone else done it?

I would read up on this, i know a few people who have had BM transplants and have told me how amazingly painfull it is. But nice thought, helping people like this :thumbsup

I have considered it. In addition to being painful, from what I understand you get an initial typing which is only accurate for a short while, but since your bone marrow composition changes fairly regularly, when a possible match is found later you will have to have another typing just to see if your marrow is still compatible.

I did not know that was possible. I know it's common that high dosage chemo patients have bone marrow harvested and then reinserted after the treatment is completed since they will kill the cells completely.
sounds like that could potentially cure cancer where the patients is too sick to use his own bone marrow.

Read about it. From what I understand the list of donors is small because of the pain involved.

too painful,

i ll donate eyes....

Ask anyone who has had screws or a rod, plate, or other fixture implanted into some part of their skeletal system if they would like to do it again sometime. And then decide if you want someone drilling a core sample out of your thigh :winkwink:

But it's a nice thought.

you want to check into Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant...its very similar but pretty much painless...

best of luck if you decide to do it..

My cousin did it for her sister (also my cousin.) Very painful, but she saved her life. Something to think about.

There's a billboard in K town for a little girl who needs a transplant - that seriously made me consider it. Props to you if you do it.

its very very painful.