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Hi - I wanted to know if anyone has a medical bracelets now that you are sleeved? I know the By-pass you need to have one... but is it something we should have with the sleeve? Does anyone keep a medical card or any info on them that they had this done?

I go to my post op meeting tomorrow & Plan on asking this very question, but i wanted to get an idea what everyones thought was...

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I bought one for post-stroke that had a thumb drive for complete medical information. An ambulance driver and a hospital admissions clerk both told me after a later medical event that they are not allowed to put outside drives into their system as a precaution for computer viruses, so I just keep a card in my wallet.

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I bought a key chain medical id thing off of Amazon. Its always on my keys now.

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DesPeres Hospital gave us a laminated card to carry in our wallets.

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This sounds interesting. Could you share where you got it on Amazon or a picture of yours?

I have no clue how to do pics on the mobile version of this..but I just searched medical id on amazon and looked threw the list. Its small and round shaped, with a blue colored medical looking symbol..the other side says the no blind ng tubes no nsaids.

Hope this helps.

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I just ordered mine from Picturesongold.com. I wanted a necklace that was smaller than the typical dog tag style but could still fit a lot of info. I ended up engraving "Gastrectomy patient - NO blind NGT - No NSAIDS / C. diff risk - No antibiotics". It all fit on a 1" x 1/2" stainless steel pendant.

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(I probably sound stupid) Why would we need a medical alert?

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I never take mine off.

As an ER nurse, I feel much safer with it on.

My name

Sleeve gastrectomy

No blind NG/ NSAIDS

PCN allergy

My hubby's phone #

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I never take mine off. As an ER nurse, I feel much safer with it on. My name Sleeve gastrectomy No blind NG/ NSAIDS PCN allergy My hubby's phone #

Hey! I saw your post about being in Biloxi, I'm from the coast as well. Who did your surgery???

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(I probably sound stupid) Why would we need a medical alert?

So a nurse doesn't accidentally kill you ;)

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Ok, I am feeling slow!! I got my sleeve like 3 weeks ago and I got nothing saying I got it done?? I didn't know I needed any special treatment. Oooh Lord now I am scared :-(

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I've been wondering about an NG tube! That would be very dangerous. I'll have to get some kind of medical alert thing to cart around and make sure to tell my friends and family to let people know I've had a VSG if there's ever an emergency.

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