New

Newsweek Magazine wk of November 10, 2008

Chuck1106
  • By Chuck1106 · Posted November 5, 2008
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • I just received my Newsweek magazine. I was flipping through it, and in the MY TURN page a story about a man who has ALS. Michael Goldsmith wrote an interesting article about ALS. I would put the whole ...

4 Months Since Diagnosis

Chuck1106
  • By Chuck1106 · Posted October 9, 2008
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • It has been nearly four months since my diagnosis. To say I have learned a lot about ALS would be a complete understatement. I have done these things. 1. I got active in the ALS Associations Walk to D'Feat ...

Info

fraulibby
  • By fraulibby · Posted July 24, 2008
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • My mom has been diagnosed with Bulbar ALS. She is elderly and I guess I thought this was something that occurred earlier in life. Any one out there who has a parent diagnosed late in life ...

Over 1 month since Diagnosis

Chuck1106
  • By Chuck1106 · Posted July 22, 2008
  • Journal · 9 replies
  • Well...I have been diagnosed over a month... I still slur my speech..(getting worse) and have problems eating and swallowing... (getting worse). I have been to a nutritionist...I did tests for him that ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 10, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

Children of patients

bschaeler
  • By bschaeler · Posted June 6, 2008
  • Discussion in Family and friends · 2 replies
  • My husband was diagnosed with ALS almost a year ago; he has bulbar als, so his progression has been very rapid. I fear he is at the end of this journey as he is exhibiting signs of getting ready to 'let ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • Journal · 124 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 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 ...

Search

Find information and discussion about health topics in 296,505 posts by members like yourself. Learn more...

Join

Join safe, secure groups sponsored by trusted organizations that care about your health. Learn more...

Connect

Connect with 80,177 members and make friends who share your interests, learn about conditions and treatments, find support and more. Learn more...

You