Stem Cell Treatments?

Just my opinion only, go with your gut feeling on this one. If it worked for chronic pain, I can assure you this web site along with other forums would be full of patient stories about the wonders of stem cell & treatment of chronic pain. Do not let desperation blind your thinking. It's a well known fact anyone can write a review without being a patient. Drs have been caught for doing this very thing.

Stem cell treatment is definitely a treatment for certain & specific conditions. Maybe one day in the future it will be effective for pain, we can always hope.

Pashta:
Approach plasma proteins or stem cell injections with the utmost of due diligence and caution.

There is NO oversight or monitoring of practitioners. None. Zero.

You will want to research literature easily available on the web that document a slew of problems. Primarily, patients who acquire horrific infections from plasma or stem cells that are not of an autogenic/self donation. There are cases reported of a woman in Florida who went blind in both eye, and; a gentleman in Florida who had a life-threatening infection of the spinal fluid after a donor injection for lumbar disc disease.

The problem: There is no standardized process to ensure that donated plasma proteins/stem cells are not contaminated by bacteria, fungus, or viruses - either during storage or during the centrifugal process that separates the plasma proteins or stem cells from the harvested blood or adipose tissue.

Self donation of plasma rich proteins (PRP) has its own checkerd track record (where the restorative plasma proteins are harvested and separated from your own adipose tissue which is then injected into a troubled joint or bone surface).

I would be very cautious in approaching Plasma rich protein and stem cell injections. Very, very cautious.
Karen

Yes, between the two (stem cell and PRP), autogenic PRP is the safer option.

Under NO circumstances should anyone consider a donor-sourced stem cell or PRP injection/infusion. Besides the risk of infection from contamination of the donated cells, there is the risk of the immune system identifying and attacking the donor cells as “foreign” (similar to donor rejection seen in organ transplants) - a scenario that could lead to organ failure (kidney, liver) or death.

As your pain involves the spine/vertebrae, I would be very, very hesitant to consider either PRP or stem cell “therapy.” It is one thing to inject PRP into a knee with articulations surface arthritis and bone wear and tear. There is a whole different level of concern where a proposed injection is close to the spinal canal and flow of cerebral spinal fluid. The results could be catastrophic or certainly permanently adversely life-affecting (stroke, paralysis, meningitis, encephalopathy).

My opinion: Neither PRP nor stem cell injection/infusion are worth the risk.

Be careful.
Karen

Post Edited ((Seashell)) : 3/27/2019 9:07:59 AM (GMT-6)