Hi ems, I do have one. The main reason is that I can lose consciousness when I have a seizure. One time I fell on a public street during a seizure and the people nearest to me (three young women) thought I was intoxicated. I don't remember much from the seizure, but I do remember the looks on their faces. I tried to get up a few times, finally using a street sign post to get up, stumbling back to my office somehow where my colleagues called 911. I broke my thumb that day and ended up with a frozen shoulder that I'm still dealing with. I alternately feel angry, sad, and annoyed about that incident. But the bright side is that a young man, an undergraduate at the college where I work, knew something was wrong that did not include being on drugs or being drunk, and followed me back to my office building to alert my coworkers.
I got my bracelet from the Medic Alert website here in the U.S. and I did pay fee in addition to purchasing the bracelet for them to store a lot of information in their database including the names and contact information of my doctors, all of the medications (and dosages) I take, my emergency contacts, all medical conditions, etc. On the back it says: Complex Partial Seizures, Latex Allergy and an 800 number to call. I think. Today is the 2nd day ever that I forgot to put it on since I got it! I feel kind of naked without it.
It is pretty with pink and white beads, so I do hope that if I fall or become unconscious in public again that the EMTs will recognize it. I think about getting a more recognizable and smaller one because it does kind of get in the way when I'm typing. On the other hand, I like that the general public doesn't recognize it as a Medic Alert bracelet unless they look really close. I know that if I lose partial consciousness and am thinking (big IF there), I can point to the bracelet. I hope, anyway! I lose a lot memory with my seizures, so who knows if I'm able to do that. I would say if you lose consciousness or partial consciousness, something like that is so important. Before I had a bracelet, I had something typed up in my wallet that the hospital had printed for me on discharge on the many times I had been dragged to the ER when someone called 911 - because the EMTs always went for my license I had it tucked behind my license. But when I was walking that day, I did not have my purse with me. :/
