Medical Id Bracelet

Hey guys I was just wondering where all of you guys purchased your medical bracelets from.  When I met my surgeon this was something he mentioned I had to purchase after surgery and it must say no nsaids and No Blind NG Tube but I am not sure where to get one for a good price.

No one through the process has mention a medicalert bracelet to me so far.

really? my surgeon did because in case of an emergency you can not be incubated no tube can go down your throat or it will rip your pouch as per what dr klein told me anyway and along with the no nsaids because we cant have antinflammatories

that is a very good point but Dr. Klein never even mentioned this to me either!  I wish the surgeons were more consistent with their information. 

Steph

My brother in law is an anesthesiologist and reminded me the other day to update my medical bracelet to say gastric bypass no blind NG tube. Critical to have that known in case of emergency

I asked Dr, Hagen and he specifically said "no need for it"

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At the orientation meeting, it was first mentioned by the NP and has been an ongoing point made, through all of the appointments. I haven't gotten mine yet, but I am starting to search photos of medic alert bracelets on Google Image, to find one I like.

I asked my surgeon at my 1 month follow up about medical bracelet as I had seen some people on OH talk of it.  He said there was no need.  It would be an issue to get blind tubing down in the early weeks post surgery as we are healing inside and could do damage. He said once you are past that he wouldn't be concerned.  Even NSAIDS given in am emergency situation  would not be the end of the earth.  So his opinion, and I understand that of the Guelph clinic was better to be given possible life saving remedies in an emergency than none at all.  Based upon that advice I wasn't planning on getting one. 

There are differing opinions on whether or not to get a bracelet, and if you do, what to put on it.

TWH mentioned getting one a couple of times, but I'm not doing it, because I've read some convincing arguments against getting one.  Besides, they're expensive and ugly.  (And the ones that are expensive and pretty don't look like medical alert bracelets and emergency workers might not even realize they are anything other than jewellery.)  And I don't think they're necessary.

But if I were going to get one, I would never put specific instructions about sugar, NSAIDs or NG tubes on it.  I would simply put "RNY" and the date and name of doctor who performed it.  If I'm going through a hypoglycemic incident, I don't want someone to not give me sugar.  If I need an emergency dose of aspirin or some other NSAID, it's not going to kill me to have it once - it's prolonged use of NSAIDs that cause ulcers - but it just might save my life if I'm having a heart attack.  I forget what the reason was for not putting anything about blind NG tubes on it, but it was a convincing argument to me.  (Actually, Dawn explains it at the link below.)

Diminishing Dawn has an excellent blog post about this here:

http://diminishingdawnreturns.blogspot.ca/2012/06/medic-aler t-bracelets.html