fibromyalgia and jury duty

I asked to have a private talk with the lawyers and the judge and told them about my anxiety and how it will effect the trial. I thought I got out of it because they didn't call my name for voir dire. But at the end of the day they asked me to return tomorrow since they are not done with the questions and I would probably get questioned tomorrow. So I know my anxiety level is going to build up and would tremble a lot during the voir dire.

The court will find you in contempt and fine and/or put you in jail a few days . Better to ask to postpone your jury service then try and tell the judge you never received your summons ..

I have gotten two jury duty summons this month. Postponed the first, fine. And then San Francisco wants me too. So I requested a release due to the fact I would have to eat in court, when I take my Vic. I also sent in 4 pages describing drugs and labs... Hope this works. And I was polite. Given I had 5 days to return info, I did not get my docs signature. Hey, this was work; give me a break universe!

Usually if you have a chronic condition that can be affected by the condition that may be elicited from such a situation as jury duty they don't want you because they could possibly have to excuse you during the trial and that would mess up the whole situation...they want healthy people with the ability to sit for long hours and also have no problem with memory or communication which in some of us is seriously affected by MS. I wouldn't worry too much about it...

When I was staying home and taking care of my son, I got summonsed for jury duty and they just had a call-in system where you pushed a button if you had any of their listed reasons (mine was sole parent in charge of infant) and it was all done automatically. I kind of wondered if they would send someone to my house to check up or something, but they didn't.

My advice is that people who are bipolar should definately NOT try to do jury duty when they are not stable. My job gives me the oportunity and get up and move around and talk to people, basically keeping me distracted although it is hard. Sitting trying to pay attention to something like a trial is prety much impossible. Next time I will actually listen to good advice and NOT to my stupid bad judgement. >.> Anyway, just wanted to let you know what dumb mistake I made.

Medical conditions can get you out of jury duty, so you could have your doctor sign off on it. My mom is diabetic and that alone is enough to get her out of it.

My mother was chosen for jury duty and there is a big elimination process once you get there. (If they don't call to say you don't have to). I think you will definitely get off, you should get the proof of pregnancy in though because who knows how long some of these cases go for?

Hi I have a question. I just got summoned for jury duty and I have major anxiety and seperation issues. Is there a way to get out of it? I see that there's optional excusion for it but there's no check for anxiety.My mom said I should just write on it somewhere that I have major anxiety issues but will they accept that, being it isn't one of the things I can check off? Or do I absolutely need a note? Also, is it a doctors or therapist note that I need? Thank you!

t know if I will get a response but has anyone asked for their doctor to fill out a jury duty medical excuse? I ask my doctor for one and not to my surprise, he said I no, I was not eligible. I have never tried to get out of jury duty. I work every day on tx but as most folks here, i have good days and bad days. Cannot concentrate, sometimes can't even sit still, itch daily, and because i drink so much water, i have to go to the restroom a lot! I wouldn't want me on a jury.

It's me again. A couple of weeks ago I got a summons for jury duty. I forgot about it and found it again yesterday. I am supposed to report to the courthouse on Monday. I had been meaning to call my psychiatrist and did not do so until yesterday. I asked them to write me an excuse because I have really bad anxiety when I feel trapped, and lord knows one is trapped if on a jury.

But if you need it, you need it. The jury duty part is, yes, you can get out of jury duty due to anxiety. Whether or not you need a doctor's note depends on your local jurisdiction, but you probably will. I would caution, though, that although you mention you're suffering anxiety because of this, you don't say how badly this is affecting your life in the sense of avoiding things. I know this is easy to say, but avoidance will make the problem harder to get over.

Just got my week 22 results in from my PCP (mys tudy will not give any info out till after week 24). But am not sure how to read them - my doc is on jury duty and the nurse was not a great deal of help. HCV RNA, PCR QUANT <10 IU/ML range of dectection 10 - 5,000,000 HVC Viral Log <1.0 LOG IU/ML range of detection 1.0 -6.696 log Started with a viral load of 2.3 million Does this mean I am undectable?

i got jury-duty friday i tried to get out of it but i could not see a doctor soon enough (schizophrenia) other than that i am going to stay out of trouble :)

With my second child, I was supposed to work up until my dd cuz I was only given a personal leave of 30 days and I had a c section and I remember I worked on Sat and was supposed to go back mon, thurs, fri, sat and that monday was my due date, however my baby girl came a week early on the Monday I was supposed to work. I called them and let them know I wasn't coming in lol. Also, I had jury duty and I had to cancel and the lady was like...its a little late,,, and im like uh...

I'm a bit frustrated. I don't have an MS dx, but all of my symptoms scream MS, and I don't know about those non-specific white matter lesions on my brain. Nobody seems to think they are anything, so my MRIs are "normal". Anyway, since the heat has made it's appearance I am barely functional for a good part of the day. The fatigue has been horrible, and the weakness - ugh!

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I have been sick with sinuses and had to endure a 2 hour family reunion yesterday, and up until 20 minutes ago I was really worried about going to jury duty this afternoon, however, my boss gave me an excuse and they took it.

The excuse for the delay was that the doctors appointment setter and intake person was on Jury duty and no one checked her messages? Sounds like a lame excuse. I do hope all this will be worth my wait! Again thank you!

Right now my doc is tring Cellcept. The jury is still out. But I have been on steroids, Plaquenil, Arava, Methotrexate and now Cellcept.

The doc who prescibed it was running a clinic in florida and claimed to be able to cure chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.....he diagnosed me with black mold toxicity and put me on a month of IV therapy....thats why I didn't make the link to my side effects and the lyrica. he claimed I was detoxing from the micotoxins the mold causes. the jury is still out on whether that was really my problem, as all my symptoms are coming back.

Thank you guys, i drank some really cold juice and layed on my left side. ive only felt 2 little kicks since then but I'm not sure. i don't know what to do either, my fiance has to be up for jury duty in a few hours and we share a car so idk what to do.

We're at the farm, but moving back to the school house today. I'll probably have eaten a big meal or two before we get there, so will probably weigh in tomorrow morning. I think (from the way I feel and the way my clothes fit) that I'm in the same range, maybe down a pound. We're expecting snow for several days in the Portland area beginning Monday night or Tuesday. My son is delighted, and I'm not sorry either because I got called for jury duty this week and next.

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