A few things on my mind.

[Joanne1973]

I have just been diagnosed with fibro, no medication yet as letter from consultant hasn't been received by my gp so I found out this morning so more waiting for treatment.

I have my atos medical on the 4th and not looking forward to it, doc said he has had 2 people turned down only this morning!

This might be a silly question but does anyone with fibro have one of those medical Id things, you know the bracelet ?x

[Ginsing]

Hi Joanne

Welcome to our "club" so sorry you are joining us but this is an excellent place to find friends, support, help and often amusemet. We do like a good laugh if possible! The id bracelets are available from Fibro action.com an excellent site for further infomation,

Hope this helps gins

[Joanne1973 in reply to Ginsing]

Thankyou Gins, do you have a link to the bracelets as I can't find them on the site x

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Welcome to the forum ....

fibroaction.org/awareness-W...

Here is the link for the fibro action awareness bands...

. I have a medic alert bracelet.... Not for fibro because it doesn't actually need special monitoring but because I am allergic to penecillin and the first med they give if you are allergic to penecillin plus some pain meds...

Yours

VG the awkward

[LindseyMid]

Here is Medic Alert:

medicalert.org.uk/

You can also get alert bracelets from many chemists where you put your conditions/medications on a piece of paper that is stored in the bracelet. Those are cheaper but obviously you are very limited as to what you can put, whereas the medic Alert service includes keeping your details on file so you can have lots of detail.

I used to have one when I was on medications and also had issues with fainting. Even if you just want to have contact details of someone to call if you are taken ill when out, it is a good idea to have something like this if you have any conditions that could cause you to be ill when out or are on medications (so A&E staff would need to know this if you were in an accident).