Just wondering if anyone owns a Medical Alert bracelet? I have both bipolar disorder and seizures and my seizures are often violent and don't look like stereotypical seizures. When I have the manic or mixed manic episodes of bipolar disorder I get extremely aggressive and have once been in a store where they threatened to call the police on me. I was thinking that if I have a seizure in public or have a bipolar outburst that it would be helpful to have the bracelet. That way I hopefully get taken to the hospital and not to the slammer. Is this overkill? Post edited by: Cthebird, at: 05/03/2011 02:53 PM Post edited by: Cthebird, at: 05/03/2011 04:01 PM Bipolar 1, Simple Partial Seizures, and migraines
Psychiatric meds:
Lithium ER (900 mg)*Tegretol XR (1400 mg)*Lamictal (100 mg)*Geodon (160 mg)*Navane (5 mg)*Seroquel XR (100 mg)*Klonopin (.5 mg)
Ativan 1 mg "as needed" (I rarely take it.)*Seroquel regular 50 mg "as needed" (Only if I'm getting elevated.)
Other meds:
Propranolol (40 mg)*Levothyroxine (150 mcg)
My mix is side effect friendly for me.
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