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Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · April 11, 2008
  • Journal · 46 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · June 20, 2008
  • Journal · 19 recommendations
  • Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...

New feature - See what you've replied to

Walter
  • By Walter · April 25, 2008
  • Journal · 17 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · May 23, 2008
  • Journal · 14 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · March 13, 2008
  • Journal · 14 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Welcome!

Brian
  • By Brian · March 13, 2008
  • Journal · 12 recommendations
  • 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 ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · June 28, 2008
  • Journal · 10 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Changes that you have requested are on the way

Beth
  • By Beth · March 28, 2008
  • Journal · 9 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We've been hard at work on many of the great suggestions that you've sent us. This week we've been cooking up some changes to the group home page, and hope to make them public very soon ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · May 5, 2008
  • Journal · 8 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · August 27, 2008
  • Journal · 7 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · June 1, 2008
  • Journal · 7 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · June 10, 2008
  • Journal · 6 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Bone Growth

HSB
  • By HSB · July 7, 2008
  • Journal · 5 recommendations
  • Does bone continue to grow while you're taking fosamax or any of the others? I've read that it is the process of bone breaking down that actually spurs the new growth ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · June 12, 2008
  • Journal · 5 recommendations
  • Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...

Reclast Research Info (aka Zoledronic Acid-Novartis)

windblown
  • By windblown · July 2, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis medications · 4 recommendations
  • Since so many of you have been asking about the Reclast, and Zometa infusions, I thought I would post the New England Journal of Medicine's article on Zoledronic Acid (Reclast), the once yearly infusion ...

Social Aspects of Osteoporosis

Osteo_Staff_Journal
  • By Osteo_Staff_Journal · April 9, 2008
  • Journal · 4 recommendations
  • Of all the ways in which osteoporosis affects quality of life, the social consequences may be the least recognized and yet the most demoralizing of them all. Managing social limitations is much easier ...

New Drug therapies for Osteoporosis-DENOSUMAB

windblown
  • By windblown · March 9, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis medications · 4 recommendations
  • Hi All: Raven and I have been discussing the possible approval of a new osteo med, and I thought I would start a new thread on it so everyone can find it. Keep in mind that this drug is in Phase III clinical ...

Reaction to Actonel

NancyO
  • By NancyO · August 31, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis/Osteopenia treatment · 3 recommendations
  • Just got diagnosed with osteoporosis. (mild) 2.5 in lumbar region. Doctor started me on Actonel 150mg monthly. I took the first dose two days ago and I feel awful. Achy all over, exhausted. A general ...

support

Courage
  • By Courage · March 17, 2008
  • Discussion in Osteopenia (low bone density) · 3 recommendations
  • I am new at this however I have learned at age 38 I had a low bone density test. Since last Oct. of 2007 to now I have shrunk 1 inch. My doctors have suggested shots in the stomach for 2 yrs. I came unclued ...

A Rude Awakening

Flutterby
  • By Flutterby · March 14, 2008
  • Journal · 3 recommendations
  • I looked at myself in the mirror and saw a strong, interesting lady. I didn't realize that my body's support system was slowing dissolving away. Sure, I felt aches and pains, nothing new, right? Then ...

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