Rheumatic conditions are typically characterized by pain, aching, stiffness and swelling in and around one or more joints. The symptoms can develop gradually or suddenly. Some forms of arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, can affect multiple organs and cause widespread symptoms.
If your blood work gets sent to a Hospital who knows how long they will take. I work at Quest and I know blood work does not take longer than 7 days to process there because some of it will have to actually sit if the doctor wants you fasting. Status: Offline.
It takes approximately two to four weeks after the bone marrow is infused for engraftment to occur. There are several ways that your doctor can tell that engraftment has begun. The first sign of engraftment is the gradual rise of white blood cell count or platelet count that begins about two weeks after your BMT day.Red blood cells often take a little longer to begin developing.t is during the Post-BMT Phase that everyone looks forward to evidence that the transplanted stem cells have travelled to the right place and are starting to work. Engraftment is the process in which the transplanted stem cells find their way to the bone marrow spaces in the centre of the large bones of the body.