Crizanlizumab is thought to cut visits to A&E by 40% for patients with the blood disorder.
Sickle cell patients have begun receiving the first new treatment for the blood disorder in over 20 years.
During a crisis, patients often need powerful opioid painkillers but Loury, like many others, has faced suspicion when at A&E. Dr Shivan Pancham, a consultant haematologist at Birmingham City Hospital, told the BBC: "Our patients often find the experience in emergency departments challenging with a lack of understanding of the severity of pain.
Dr Bola Owolabi, NHS director of health inequalities, who also works as a GP in the Midlands, said: "It's fantastic that our first NHS patients have been given this ground-breaking and historic new treatment for sickle cell disease - the first in over two decades.
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