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New feature: video!

By Brian · New reply 12:12 am
Journal · 21 replies
I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...

Medication Error

By Joey_sMom · New reply November 21, 2008
Discussion in Caregivers · 11 replies
My son spent the last 3 days in the critical care department at our local hospital. He was admitted for status epilepticus, a condition that has a 20% mortality rate, and that was brought on by a medication ...

Media Inquiry - seeking West Nile patients

By wendystation · Posted November 21, 2008
Discussion in Diagnosis of encephalitis · 0 replies
Encephalitis Global has received the following media inquiry: Title: Mr. Name: Andy Montoya Organization: Atlas Media Corp. Address: 242 West 36th street, 11th Floor City: New York City State: NY Province ...

Done the test and they can help !!

By pialialotta · New reply November 20, 2008
Journal · 3 replies
Hello again ! I haven�t written here for a while. Whent for a neuropsyco something evaluation ? I can�t remember the name of it, but it was a 2 week test of what my problems are and if there is anything ...

Welcome, lucymae!

By wendystation · New reply November 19, 2008
Discussion in Introduce yourself · 4 replies
Hello and welcome, lucymae. Will you tell us a bit about yourself ...

Strange Question and Bowel Movements...

By maineicecube · New reply November 19, 2008
Discussion in Life after encephalitis · 12 replies
This is going to sound REALLY strange but bear with me... I know that the brain controls ALL body functions... For some reason it seems that the signal to "go" has been delayed and when I finally feel ...

Still employed...

By maineicecube · New reply November 19, 2008
Discussion in Life after encephalitis · 6 replies
I know this is going to sound weird but I was denied my request for a voluntary lay-off... :( I had E in late September and just came back to work last week. While I was out the govneror announced major ...

Why are we here?

By Brian · New reply November 16, 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 ...

Ovarian teratoma encephalitis

By wendystation · New reply November 16, 2008
Discussion in Diagnosis of encephalitis · 12 replies
I read for the first time today, about Ovarian teratoma encephalitis. Click http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/magazi ne/09wwln-diagnosis-t.html to view the article ...

Temperature control

By Mac33 · New reply November 14, 2008
Discussion in Life after encephalitis · 15 replies
Does anyone but me have problems with temperature control? I find that I can go from freezing cold to boiling hot and sweating in seconds, part of my body will feel far too hot and part far too warm ...

thank you veterans!

By Paulg · New reply November 13, 2008
Discussion in Relationships · 6 replies
just wanted to thank our Vets here at inspire. Paul ...

Back at Work Now...

By maineicecube · New reply November 12, 2008
Discussion in Life after encephalitis · 4 replies
Hey all, It has been a little while... I started back to work full time on Monday... I think it was a mistake to just start back full time but I am looking to be laid off and will know next week... I ...

Surgery

By Amazing · New reply November 10, 2008
Discussion in Life after encephalitis · 6 replies
My life has been good when I gained my independence. It was a struggle most of my life until I became independent. Now I have to have surgery for the pouch in the upper part of my esophagus removed that ...

Brain injury help (by state)

By IngridGuerci · New reply November 9, 2008
Discussion in Life after encephalitis · 3 replies
I have this website bookmarked and I think we all should keep it handy. It has a lot of good information on brain injury, support groups, symptoms, etc. Please go visit: http://braininjuryguide.org/braininjurys ...

History and current status

By SSFR · New reply November 8, 2008
Discussion in Life after encephalitis · 3 replies
I am slowly learning more, I should have written more about the issue. I had fainiting attack once in Oct 2005 and twice in May 2006. It was for a very very short time and was identified as 'epilepsy ...

Welcome, BCYW...

By wendystation · New reply November 7, 2008
Discussion in Introduce yourself · 3 replies
Welcome, BCYW. Will you tell us a bit about yourself ...

Welcome, case1992

By wendystation · New reply November 7, 2008
Discussion in Introduce yourself · 1 reply
Welcome to Encephalitis Global, case1992. Will you tell us a bit about yourself ...

Make a homepage!

By Knatte · Posted November 6, 2008
Discussion in Life after encephalitis · 0 replies
Hi everybody! Now I am here again, the man from Sweden! Anybody remember me? If you want you can read the background to why I do this now: Posted June 12, 2008 http://www.inspire.com/groups/encephalit ...

Surprising test result?

By countingsheep · New reply November 6, 2008
Discussion in Diagnosis of encephalitis · 27 replies
A couple weeks ago, I went for a "SPECT" brain scan at Columbia. I had made a posting here, but no one responded that they ever had one. Anyhow, it's a nuclear scan where they watch the circulation in ...

Hiccups?

By Mac33 · New reply November 5, 2008
Discussion in Diagnosis of encephalitis · 7 replies
When I was acutely ill, all my doctors kept asking (sometimes several times a day) if I had any hiccups. At the time I didn't - but does anyone know why they were asking? Just to see if my brain could ...

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