Is bone marrow transplantation painful

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At the beginning, I got leukemia, and I felt desperate. I felt that my life was coming to an end. Fortunately, I found a matching bone marrow and successfully carried out bone marrow transplantation. The recovery was very good. Now let me talk about the pain of bone marrow transplantation.

Is bone marrow transplantation painful

First, start mobilization injection five days to a week in advance, that is, to stimulate the growth of stem cells and make them free to the peripheral blood (generally, stem cells rarely appear in the peripheral blood). Until the blood routine examination meets the requirements, we will go to a stem cell collection room, and insert a tube into the venous channel of the left and right arms, and connect it to a stem cell collection machine. After several cycles of peripheral blood in the machine, enough stem cells will be collected, and other blood components will be transported back to the body.

Second: calculate the amount of stem cells needed according to the height and weight of the recipient, generally ranging from 50 to 500 ml. There was no anesthesia during the collection because there was no pain. Calcium gluconate will be injected every hour to prevent the donor from cramping due to calcium loss. The whole process takes about three hours, and then you can get up and go home.

Third: as long as the bone marrow is implanted in the patient's body after bone marrow transplantation, after the recovery and reconstruction of the patient's hematopoiesis, the bone marrow will continue to generate hematopoiesis and will not be used up. The important function of bone marrow is to produce stem cells that generate all kinds of blood cells. Stem cells will continue to replicate and will not be used up. These stem cells can generate all kinds of blood cells through differentiation, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, lymphocytes and so on. In short, the role of bone marrow is hematopoietic function.

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Whether it's a bone marrow donor or a patient, there may be some pain in bone marrow transplantation. However, for patients, if they can successfully carry out the transplantation, their lives can be saved, and the pain is insignificant.