Already a member? Sign in
Welcome to Inspire!
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.
Why - As a member you can use Inspire to let friends and family know how you're doing, contact others who share your health concerns, receive personalized updates and information about participating in surveys and clinical trials, and more.
How - Joining Inspire is completely free and usually takes less than a minute. Join now!
Young survivors
Talk with other young survivors about issues unique to youth.
help
- By snowwhite83 · New reply yesterday at 3:17 pm
- 1 reply
- I only joined this site today but I can see under posts that there are seperate topics, ie. this one i have put under young survivors. Is there a way to go direct to different topic groups. Someone has ...
In Vitro Fertilization After Losing Ovaries
- By gabs · New reply yesterday at 5:08 am
- 22 replies
- I didn't know which section to put this in... So I'm 23 and had both ovaries removed. I was left with a uterus in case I wanted to have children using donor eggs. From what I know (and I don't know much ...
In need of hearing about getting pregnant after ovarian cancer
- By piper_80 · New reply yesterday at 4:33 am
- 29 replies
- I am 27 and I had exploratory surgery back in March of 2008. In the surgery they found a borderline serous (sp?) tumor on my left ovary and removed both the tumor and ovary. My onocologist said I can ...
Good Things
- By MarieBatt · New reply June 18, 2009
- 3 replies
- I had a follow up appointment today with my GYN Oncologist. It's been 21 months since my debulking surgery and everything is going well. My CA 125 keeps coming back normal as do my CT scans. I'm happy ...
Borderline Ovarian Cancer?
- By Nova · New reply June 17, 2009
- 25 replies
- I was diagnosed with borderline ovarian cancer last year at age 31. Has anyone else been diagnosed with this?? I know that it's pretty rare ...
exhaustion
- By Sandiestar · New reply June 10, 2009
- 18 replies
- hey ladies, Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on how not to feel so tired and exchausted all the time? I struggle to get up in the mornings and I am always tired... I have seen the Dr and he told ...
Recurrent Low-Grade Serous Carcinoma
- By sarahliz · New reply May 27, 2009
- 57 replies
- Does anyone have this rare type of Ovarian Cancer ...
Update on my PET/CT scan follow-up today for my Borderline
- By royaltudor · New reply May 26, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi Ladies, Thanks so much for the caring thoughts and support you have given me. I finally had my doctor appointment today. It turns out my PET/CT report is 4 pages long! Here's a summary of the three ...
Bald is Beautiful
- By momanderson920 · New reply May 21, 2009
- 1 reply
- This is a wonderful commercial made by a young 28 year old ovarian cancer survivor....she also did another one posted on youtube which is called The Big C Project which is alittle more graphic and has ...
Menopause and the pill
- By gabs · New reply May 20, 2009
- 11 replies
- I'm 23 and I was just diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I had my surgery a month ago. Initially the CT scan showed a tumor on my right ovary (15cm). When I went in for surgery the doctor found another tumor ...
cyst? or cancer
- By rtbrewer · New reply April 8, 2009
- 4 replies
- I am 27 and have posted before. I was completely healthy until a year ago and then everything got bad. I have been sick about a year and was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism and slowly started getting better ...
Good news. Finally
- By Fireball · New reply March 28, 2009
- 26 replies
- Pathology came back today and it was benign this time. If I wasn't so weak from surgery I would be dancing around ...
anna Marie
- By bonn · New reply March 19, 2009
- 7 replies
- I recieved my 2nd chemo yesterday.And spent a wonderful afternoon with a beautiful super brave young lady of 16 named Anna Marie.. She was dx inAugust of 2008 with stage 3 cancer..She had her left ovary ...
Does anyone else feel alone?
- By Fireball · New reply March 18, 2009
- 15 replies
- I have yet to find a support group in my area for ovarian cancer. I feel really alone ...
Slightly worried newbie
- By DeckStar · New reply March 12, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hi ladies, I'm 26, and had a cyst (football sized), an ovary and a fallopian tube removed 2 yrs ago, (IA) When I was diagnosed it was purely by luck, I mentioned to my GP that I had weird bleeding patterns ...
remaining hopefull
- By essie · New reply February 23, 2009
- 16 replies
- hi,this is my first post.i am 20 and was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer in june last year.it was quite a shock to me and my family who have been very supportive.i went thru 6 coarses of chemo but ...
FABULOUS resource for young cancer survivors: Planet Cancer
- By Carex · New reply February 14, 2009
- 1 reply
- I searched this site and only found one mention so I thought it worth posting again: www.planetcancer.org myplanet.planetcancer.org Discussions of everything you could imagine of interest to the 18-40 ...
Hopefully, this may help
- By laughingnikki · New reply February 5, 2009
- 1 reply
- I found this website, and perhaps you have all found it first. Thought, that I would share it anyway. www.imtooyoungforthis.org Tons of support info, blogs, forums etc. So check it out! Be well, Nikki ...
Just Feeling Down
- By ThePhoenix · New reply January 31, 2009
- 26 replies
- I'm not sure how many of you are in the same boat as me. I was diagnosed in 07 with stage 3 ovca. Rewind a bit. Hubby and I had one mission as soon as we tied the knot....have babies. Thats what our entire ...
Good questions to ask the Dr.
- By Fireball · New reply January 8, 2009
- 19 replies
- I am going in for a second opinion. My first appointment with the Onocologist/Gyn was a blur after he said no chemo. I brought a notepad with me but I was so scared I forgot to write anything down. I'm ...
