How do you go about donating bone marrow?

where do I go and what is the actual procedure like? I’ve been thinking about donating. I know you need to get a blood test first but I don’t know what else you need, do I go to a blood donation clinic? or should I approach my family doctor. Also, what is the procedure like? Ps, I live in Canada, Ontario.

Answer #1

I think it done either at a hospital outpatient unit or a special bone marrow unit, and not to put you off, but its not particularly nice. You have to have daily injections of a drug that increases blood-forming cells, for about five days, and they put a rather giant needle into your pelvis, after first making some incisions in the skin. Having said that, you will be anaethatised (either a general or epidural) so you wont feel it while it happens, but you may feel a bit sore and sick for a bit after.

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