Man required...will need to spit for me..

whitewing

Thank you and Happy Easter.

Saffagal

Just a little bump, as my sister is still looking for her life-saving donor, as are many others.

TheEffect

Just a little bump.

Received my Anthony Nolan card today. Am all signed up.

torbrex

I have been a registered bone marrow donor since about 1992 and although I have been a close match a couple of times and I was a close enough match for my platelets to be used during a bone marrow operation, I have yet to be called on to donate.
It just shows that even 20 years as a registered donor and not being called on, how difficult it is to get a perfect match for someone in desperate need of a transplant.

More potential donors are always required as people like myself become older and will soon disappear from the register.

castle96

true torbrex.

I have been on the reg. for 25 yrs (and donated 10 years ago). Now I am 60 they have taken me off it. People are need to replace such as me

babymoo

I hate that my health stops me from donating blood and bone marrow. I wish your sister all the best and hope you do find a donor soon. I will get DP to register though, he has no excuse and my brothers and sister.

level200

Does it have to be a man?

Saffagal

Thank you, my sister is still looking for a donor.

Anyone (male and female) between 18 and 40 can join the register provided you weigh under 8st (51kg) or are severely overweight (a BMI of more than 35), you're not HIV+ve or carrying Hep B/C virus, and you've never had the following diseases/conditions:
- Cancer (including leukaemia)
- Heart disease or heart surgery
- Stroke
- Epilepsy (unless you have not had a seizure or taken medication for epilepsy for the last three years)
- Any neurological condition
- COPD including lung clots
- Diabetes (unless this is controlled by diet alone)
- Ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease
- Sarcoidosis
- Reiter’s syndrome
- Autoimmune conditions including rheumatoid arthritis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Vasculitis
- Sickle cell disease
- Graves’ disease
- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
- Pernicious anaemia
- Myasthenia gravis
- Schizophrenia
- Haemophilia
- Thalassaemia
- Sciatica
- Hepatitis or a positive blood test for hepatitis or HTLV
- An allergy to latex or anaesthetic

If you're pregnant or have recently had a baby you won't be allowed to donate until your baby is one year old.

Thank you to EVERYONE who is able to and registers as a donor.

insurgente

I fit the profile so I signed up (relatively fit, though I've been slacking on the gym recently)

Since my daughter was diagnosed with leukaemia it really is unacceptable that I haven't signed up to be on the bone marrow register. This sign up was easy enough so let's hope I get on the register..... Blood, platelets, where else can I be useful? I don't know where to begin :huh:

Reading about what donating bone marrow involves, it all sounds pretty heavy. But I know it'd be worth it to save someone's life. I guess I'm hoping for a karma affect: if one day my daughter needs it, I hope there's a match out there for her ( I know I'm not a match).

Are these registers shared worldwide?

dharm999

I've been contacted today as I may be a possible match. I need to phone the NHS Blood Marrow people on Monday (why don't they have someone to talk to at weekends?) Does anyone know:

the chances of being a match after they take a blood sample?
how long it might take, assuming I am a match, to actually donate?

Thanks
Dharmesh