Medical ID

If you wear a medical ID of any kind, do you wear it at all times? What if you've just had treatment and your counts look good?

I'm at 112k. I wore a bracelet when I was under 70k. Then I got treatment. I didn't bruise and I stopped wearing the bracelet, thinking I was all better (silly me).

If you had treatment and your counts looked good- would it still be useful for a Doctor to see the medical ID in case of an emergency? Or is it really unimportant?

I don't wear one, but I am thinking I might get one and I would wear it at all times. In an emergency situation although the first thing that would be done is cbc for blood matching it would also alert any medical team that there could be a problem.
Counts could be low and maybe you wouldn't know, I also have on my cell phone an ICE number (in case of emergency)with my husbands phone number so all emergency people know who to contact.(DR suggestion)

I suppose it's personal choice but you can get some really nice medical alert bracelets so why not.

I've wanted to get one for a long time. It would just be a nice thing to help out if I was ever in real trouble without a voice to explain what is wrong.

I make my own bracelets. I have an ID with the two holes on each side, and I can make interchangeable bracelets for it.

I like the phone idea too. I've never thought of that.

I got one last year - my mum was really pleased as she said it gives her peace of mind knowing that if something were to happen to me, then they'd find my ID which would at least give me a fighting chance of surviving.

One quirk of the NHS is that at present, medical records are kept only at your local hospital and doctor's surgery. I work up in central london, several miles from where I live. if something were to happen to me while i was out working (my office know and we have a doctor in the building, but i'm often out and about by myself), no one would be any the wiser until they'd spoken to my local hospital or got a CBC done. So my bracelet tells them everything that they'd need to know at short notice:

Name - date of birth (i have the month written as July to avoid any confusion between british and american date formats)
ITP - Low platelets (medical staff don't need a quiz - tell them what's wrong with you!)
ICE my mum's name and mobile number

I also have both my parents listed in my phone as ICE.

I wear mine all the time, and i got a free dogtag which lives on my car keys - admittedly my count has been sub-50 for quite a while, but even if i'd had a recent good count, i'd still be inclined to wear it for just in case they'd dropped without my knowing. and remember that there are drugs which can lower your platelet count/thin the blood etc - you don't want to be prescribed those without good reason! and you might have good counts because you're being treated, whether it's with steroids, IVIG, rituxan etc - but doctors will want to know about those too! Make things easy for them - the more info they have immediately, the better and the quicker they can treat you in the event of an emergency.