I personally have not heard of personality changes when receiving blood transfusions but I have hear of personality changes when receiving organ transplants - even "taking on" the characteristics of the donor. I wish I could be of more help.

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Thanks Sybilleruth. That might be what I've heard and mixed it up with Blood T's. I would be interested to read any reports on this kind of happening.

I searched PubMed for personality changes in transplant and blood transfusion and found nothing. BT articles went back to the mid-fifties, transplant articles went to sixty eight.

In the late seventies I remember reading some things concerning personality changes in Blood Transfusion patients. For example, patients receiving blood from a criminal took on criminal characteristics etc. These were not medical studies and I have not seen anything written on the topic since then.

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I likewise did a major research, primarily revolving around transfusions but did come across this interesting article. The URL is below. In addition, I have met a couple of individuals who said that they "just didn't feel themselves" after their organ transplants. I really never pursued the conversation; I now wish I had.

Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants
Leslie A. Takeuchi, BA, PTA
<>
http://www.med.unc.edu/wellness/main...7;20memory.htm

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I am respectfully skeptical when reading anecdotal* evidence provided by a Physical Therapy Assistant**. I am point out her occupation in order to establish her credentials.


* I mean to say - consisting of or based on secondhand accounts rather than firsthand knowledge or experience or scientific investigation

** Leslie A. Takeuchi, BA, PTA is a physical therapist assistant and is currently a graduate student in Holistic Health Education at John. F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California.

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Jan,

Perhaps that is a valid argument but I am sure, despite her credentials, she has done quite a bit of additional research, if for anything to allow readers the possibility of realizing a personality change can be a possiblity. As mentioned, I had a couple of friends who verbally noted a difference with them. And I also am of the mind that it depends on what organ was transplanted. Now that is a different presentation other than what has been written.

I am always open to another person's argument on a subject and if they can present a case in a reasonable and convincing manner I will be the first to look into it and do so for many hours.

This is an interesting subject and of course I will pursue it. Another avenue I am in pursuit of is why the medical profession insists on conforming my lab work to that of a 20-year-old when I am older than that. Lower blood pressure; lower blood sugar coping with veins (and cells) that are not as supple as someone younger than me. I figure in order to combat age, adjustments by the body have to be made, yet the medical profession insists on numbers which I don't think are doing me any justice. My mother was prescribed blood pressure medication and never had problems with dizziness prior to the medication. She does now. Is she trading one evil for another? Who is to say what is normal for the aged when it comes to blood pressure numbers? I would think higher numbers are indicated given the state their veins are in and the needed amount of pressure exerted by the blood to "get the job done." As I say - matter of opinion but I also know there has to be a cut off point. Who is to say where that is when it comes to the elderly. Perhaps that is why diseases of the mind are on the rise - lack of O2. Pure speculation on my part but tantalizing enough to investigate.

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Sybille
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As you can read...I really don't take anything at face value (let alone pop a pill in my mouth) unless I have thoroughly investigated the pros and cons. I choose to make the informative decision to take something prescribed to me. That is how I feel about blood being ordered by physicians. After hours of research, administrating blood will not be a part of my treatment protocol. I am of the opinion that a fair amount of physicians feel the same.

Have a GREAT day!

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Sybille
“Think highly of yourself
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I think its interesting how in the Bible God has said that many times that he searches the kidneys and the heart to see a persons seat of motivation, in Revelation 2:23 God says, "so that all the congregations will know that I am he who searches the kidneys and hearts, and I will give to YOU individually according to YOUR deeds." there is an interesting read at http://members.toast.net/rjspina/Cellular Memory.htm

Dear Kevin:
I can't get the link you included to work. Could you check it and repost? Thanks.

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