This could be potentially, an option for some relief from pain and certainly a consideration...It has been found that stem cell therapies have given relief of neuropathic pain in mice when using stem cell known as bone marrow stromal cells.
Although, in my ignorance, I did wonder how neuropathic pain can be measured in mice!
A stem cell injection that could kill pain for more than a month has been tested by scientists.
Many people suffering from chronic pain caused by the nerve damage of type 2 diabetes, surgical amputation, chemotherapy and other conditions find current painkillers have little or only short term effect.
The breakthrough could provide advance cell-based therapies for chronic pain conditions, lower back pain and spinal cord injuries.
Mice treated with the bone marrow stromal cells were much less sensitive to painful stimuli after their nerve injury compared with the untreated mice.
Professor Ru-Rong Ji in the Duke School of Medicine said: “This analgesic effect was amazing.
“Normally, if you give an analgesic, you see pain relief for a few hours, at most a few days.
“But with bone marrow stem cells, after a single injection we saw pain relief over four to five weeks.
“Based on these new results, we have the know-how and we can further engineer and improve the cells to maximise their beneficial effects.”
The study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation involved the delivery of the cells by a lumbar puncture, infusing them into the fluid that bathes the spinal cord.
I have been looking into this also. Having a bad run with neuro pain lately and not had any satisfactory results with pain Dr. I'm considering this treatment. Good post
I have been looking into this also. Having a bad run with neuro pain lately and not had any satisfactory results with pain Dr. I'm considering this treatment. Good post
Sorry to hear the pain has worsened tbone57, let us know if you decide to go for this, it will be interesting to see how effective it is.
Going for autologous bone marrow stem cell treatment on August 21. I am doing this because of neuropathic pain, mostly in buttocks and bladder area very intense and ruining my life. Will report back with results!
Going for autologous bone marrow stem cell treatment on August 21. I am doing this because of neuropathic pain, mostly in buttocks and bladder area very intense and ruining my life. Will report back with results!
You will be in my prayers! I have this same kind of pain, increasingly worse and not responding to any other treatment. Yes, ruining my life... I really hope you have positive result from this treatment.
Did you have to go through chemotherapy prior? I applied for a clinical trial which was an autologous bone marrow transplant, but was rejected because I was not likely to survive the preparatory treatment. Hopefully your treatment is much less radical than a transplant.
Going for autologous bone marrow stem cell treatment on August 21. I am doing this because of neuropathic pain, mostly in buttocks and bladder area very intense and ruining my life. Will report back with results!
You will be in my prayers! I have this same kind of pain, increasingly worse and not responding to any other treatment. Yes, ruining my life... I really hope you have positive result from this treatment.
Did you have to go through chemotherapy prior? I applied for a clinical trial which was an autologous bone marrow transplant, but was rejected because I was not likely to survive the preparatory treatment. Hopefully your treatment is much less radical than a transplant.
No Chemotherapy prior wavewolf, this is an extraction of bone marrow cells from the hip area, they spin out the cells (stem cells) and re-infuse the cells back into the body. I have emailed and spoken to a few people who have had some good results with this for pain issues. I will be back with a report hopefully positive
You will be in my prayers! I have this same kind of pain, increasingly worse and not responding to any other treatment. Yes, ruining my life... I really hope you have positive result from this treatment.
Did you have to go through chemotherapy prior? I applied for a clinical trial which was an autologous bone marrow transplant, but was rejected because I was not likely to survive the preparatory treatment. Hopefully your treatment is much less radical than a transplant.
No Chemotherapy prior wavewolf, this is an extraction of bone marrow cells from the hip area, they spin out the cells (stem cells) and re-infuse the cells back into the body. I have emailed and spoken to a few people who have had some good results with this for pain issues. I will be back with a report hopefully positive
Sounds very promising, and not a particularly traumatic procedure, although I imagine your hip will be sore afterward. Hoping you are not anxious, and that it will work wonderfully to give you relief. Doesn't seem as if there is a downside to trying! Will pray for you all day Friday and until I hear that you are OK after!
The clinical trial for autologous stem cell transplant that I applied for was an extreme procedure. First they take out bone marrow for sample, which will be reintroduced after being treated to kill all evidence of sarcoidosis and any other disease. Then you undergo radical chemotherapy which eradicates your immune system--you have to be kept in a virtually sterile environment meanwhile. Then your own treated bone marrow is put back to "restart" your immune system, without sarcoidosis. To be a participant in this clinical trial, you have to be sick enough to risk your life in order to be cured, and well enough to survive the treatment.
To be a participant in this clinical trial, you have to be sick enough to risk your life in order to be cured, and well enough to survive the treatment.
To be a participant in this clinical trial, you have to be sick enough to risk your life in order to be cured, and well enough to survive the treatment.
Woah
Probably for the best that I was rejected for the clinical trial!