Your experience may be different from Nia.

The goal of bone marrow transplant is to cure sickle cell disease.

If it works:

• You will be cured.
• You will have less pain.
• You can stop sickle cell disease medicine (example: Hydroxyurea).
• You will not need more blood transfusions for sickle cell disease.
• You will not get new organ damage from sickle cell disease, but it will not fix any organ damage you have.
• You will not need to go to the hospital as often as before.

You can still have challenges:

• It can take as long as 2 years to feel like you are back to normal.
• Some people can have depression or other mental health challenges.
• You can get new health problems that last a long time.
• You will still have some old medical problems that cannot be cured from bone marrow transplant.