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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.
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.
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Inspire members featured
- By Brian · New reply November 4, 2009
- 29 replies
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
Botox (iv only been waitting for 2 years)
- By kloua · New reply September 16, 2009
- 2 replies
- well this time 2moro i would of had my botox. im a bit on edge at the moment, not sure whats going to happen iv been being sick alday thou, and im sure im gonna get DKA again. if i do i dont think i will ...
Team Spazz! (or I Have a Dream)
- By maux · New reply August 29, 2009
- 4 replies
- [edit: The discussion has moved to http://www.inspire.com/groups/rare-disea se/journal/sps-fundraising-for-research/ ] LADA folks wanted. I have a dream: TEAM SPAZZ! Support for Stiff Man Syndrome. Inspired ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · New reply August 15, 2009
- 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
- By TeamInspire · New reply August 12, 2009
- 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 ...
Baby Steps - a scene
- By maux · Posted July 21, 2009
- 0 replies
- A Wow, sounds like you've been through a tough month, but beautiful to help out another as you did. What did it leave with you? B I only nicked myself in the shower. A I mean your friend...? B Him? I ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · New reply June 23, 2009
- 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!
- By TeamInspire · New reply June 12, 2009
- 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
- By TeamInspire · New reply June 9, 2009
- 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 ...
New feature: video!
- By Brian · New reply May 12, 2009
- 24 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 ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- 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 ...
A little bit about me getting type1 and how i changed!
- By BAD25 · New reply April 9, 2009
- 4 replies
- when I was first diagnosed with diabetes i was hysterical , at first i thought i was going to die(no lie). then once the dr. explained more about the disease i was relieved but still thought to myself ...
Time marches on
- By VirginiaCougar · New reply April 4, 2009
- 1 reply
- No matter how much chaos happens, the clock just keeps on tickin. My youngest daughter just keeps gettin older & more unsatisfied. My grandchildren keep growing. I keep getting fatter. ETC. April 2, 2009 ...
Diabetes Alert Day!
- By Life-abetes · Posted March 24, 2009
- 0 replies
- Today is the 21st annual "American Diabetes Alert Day". Are you or your loved one at risk? Take the quick Diabetes Risk Test. Just click on the ADA link www.diabetes.org today for health is wealth! Living ...
Looking for answers...
- By Sekhmet_of_september · New reply March 12, 2009
- 7 replies
- It has been a long time since I've posted anything, however, I have been reading everyones stories and occasionally commenting on them for the past 2 years. I became pregnant with my son in August of ...
New group in Inspire: The National Body Challenge
- By Brian · New reply January 12, 2009
- 25 replies
- I am pleased to announce that today we added a new group to Inspire: The National Body Challenge. nationalbodychallenge We created this group in partnership with Discovery Health. The group focuses on ...
Why are we here?
- By Brian · New reply December 16, 2008
- 135 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 ...
Privacy and control
- By Brian · New reply September 1, 2008
- 48 replies
- At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...
Welcome!
- By Brian · New reply August 31, 2008
- 19 replies
- I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · New reply May 27, 2008
- 34 replies
- Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...
