The days of painful, or very painful!, BMBs, without sedation, blablablablaetcetcetc, are almost over…or so it seems.
We may soon be able just to have a simple blood test, thanks to the work of a University of Kansas team that has developed a small plastic chip, the size of a credit card, which can yield the same information as a BMB. No pain, no discomfort. Nada. Just a blood test…
You can read all about it in this Science Daily article: goo.gl/vDymjQ
As someone who has always had painful BMBs, without sedation, I find this bit of news to be nothing short of FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffantastic!!!
I think I fear the bmb as much as fear a return of the spike. This is fabulous and I hope it is commercialised and accepted soon!
Sorry your bone marrow biopsies were painful. I felt nothing but a little pressure. I was braced for a lot of pain but felt nothing.
I was just thinking yesterday that they will probably develop some sort of correlation between the biopsy numbers and the blood counts for IGA/IGM/IGG, Kappa LC and Lamda LC so that they wouldn’t need the biopsies anymore.