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What - Inspire is a place where you can connect with people who share your health concerns and find information and advice in groups sponsored by organizations you know and trust.

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Coping with this one life inside this one body

Nihao
  • By Nihao · New reply 7:56 am
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • I am interested in how people cope day to day and not let their illness just swallow up their whole lives. Please reply and tell me what gives you comfort and inner peace during your darkest days. Here ...

Kidney Cancer Support Groups in NC & SC - USA

Mickeral
  • By Mickeral · New reply November 21, 2009
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • For those affected by Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell Carcinoma) -- there are many great developments that have occurred this year. As a 12-year survivor, I will be glad to pass along information to those who ...

Myoclonic Jerks

SweetOrganics
  • By SweetOrganics · New reply November 19, 2009
  • Journal · 21 replies
  • I have myoclonic jerks & the docs don't know what's causing them, so all they can do is give me muscle relaxers to stop them. I'd rather not be on muscle relaxers my whole life. Does anyone have any suggestions ...

3 month check-up

nmhusky
  • By nmhusky · New reply October 10, 2009
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • Well my bride and i head back to the Mayo in Phoenix for a 3 month check-up with the radiologist, hematologist, and surgeon. It has been 2 years since diagnosis, 21 months since surgery, and 18 months ...

"Better Half" Concluded His Journey- 9/16/09

iva1
  • By iva1 · New reply October 4, 2009
  • Journal · 18 replies
  • When the time came that our Earl Ray Huffingham could no longer make the difficult trip to the hospital for transfusions we all knew that his time left with us was limitted and when the last of the blood ...

LIVING WITH HOSPICE

iva1
  • By iva1 · New reply September 19, 2009
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • WE ARE REALLY APPRECIATING "LIFE'S CHANGING JOURNEY' WITH THE WONDERFUL HELP of North East Florida Community Hospice in Jacksonville. I thught I was familiar with Hospice from the beginning almost 30 ...

Guestbooks are now live!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply August 15, 2009
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...

Scheduled maintenance this evening

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply August 12, 2009
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 23, 2009
  • Journal · 28 replies
  • Sometimes the most powerful message each of us can share is our personal story -- our own experience. With upcoming healthcare legislation pending, one way we can be advocates is to share these stories ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 12, 2009
  • Journal · 32 replies
  • We're happy to announce that you can now stay in touch with what's happening at Inspire by following us on both Twitter and Facebook. While Inspire communities are still the best places to connect with ...

Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 9, 2009
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...

To Cyboney1 - Thanks

iva1
  • By iva1 · Posted May 2, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Thanks to Cybonel for your message to Kathe on her StepDaddy's condition. It was good for me to read the story of your Dad's treatment I will be following through on those meds. MyeloDysplasticSyndrom ...

Moms, you rock!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Looking for a unique and extraordinary way to say "thank you" to your mom? In honor of Mother's Day, good friend of Inspire Dr. Gwenn (of http://www.PediatricsNow.com and http://www.DrGwennIsIn.com) will ...

Complete Bladder Retention

cleofet
  • By cleofet · Posted April 19, 2009
  • Discussion in Finding a provider · 0 replies
  • My husband is going to be 57 and for a year now has had to self catherize. He is not able to go at all on his own. Three Urologists have said that his bladder floor is stretched but they don't see why ...

My son is an Md & an acupuncurast.

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Eureekah!

datagrl
  • By datagrl · New reply January 15, 2009
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • So, I made an astonishing discovery about my health by reading an Andrew Weil news letter. The news letter listed several symptoms and stated that if you had any of them, you might benefit from taking ...

Tale of Whoa

datagrl
  • By datagrl · Posted September 19, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • For almost a year now I have been having tail bone issues. My symptoms were that I have been having to really STRAIN to empty my bladder & had a couple of urinary tract infections after having none for ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply April 7, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

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