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Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- Journal · 33 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 ...
Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 25 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 ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 22 recommendations
- 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 ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- Journal · 19 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 ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 9 recommendations
- 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 ...
I Got Busted Removed From Site. And It's Okay!
- By GRANDmother19 · Posted October 15, 2009
- Journal · 6 recommendations
- I Got Busted By The Powers That Be, was removed entirely from the site because, and I quote, "it was degenerating into an unproductive expletive fest where members were telling others to "f**k off" and ...
Vitamin D 50,000 iu Daily
- By LRFL · Posted August 15, 2009
- Discussion in Vitamins and supplements · 5 recommendations
- I just found my D levels are very low (23) My doctor prescribed 50,000 iu of Vitamin D daily for 3 months and then I will be tested again. I questioned her to make sure she said daily, every where I looked ...
New study on immune system and osteo
- By SantaFe · Posted September 7, 2009
- Discussion in Osteoporosis/Osteopenia treatment · 4 recommendations
- This is an interesting new study---I posted the whole thing because the link wouldn't work. It correlates high LDL with RANKL which has a sole purpose to destroy bone. Also, the immune system plays a ...
I need to have a better attitude!
- By so-tired · Posted August 5, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- I've been thinking a lot lately, that I really need to adjust my attitude! OK, so I have all of these illnesses, I just can't let that stop me from thinking more positively! I've heard the saying, "Acceptance ...
About me
- By stphnvnsn · Posted September 18, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- This Oct. i'll be marride 33 yrs. to Fred. I have 1 son Shawn who will be 31. And 2 adorable grandsons Brandon age 10 and Christpher age 8. I own my business Fluffy Paws Pet Sitting. I'm owned by 3 cats ...
Forteo
- By Kathleen43812 · Posted October 23, 2009
- Discussion in Osteoporosis medications · 2 recommendations
- Forteo * Newest messages * Delete * Mark as unread Kathleen43812 * By Kathleen43812 * October 11, 2009 at 12:09 am I am a 61-year-old with premature ovarian failure (age 28), and severe osteoporosis with ...
More on Bisphosphonates
- By millie123 · Posted October 22, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- This is actually an older article, published in the McDougall Newsletter in April of 2008. You can find the complete references by going to the link: http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2008nl/a pr/osteo.htm ...
If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly.....
- By GRANDmother19 · Posted October 20, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- When I was told in 2001 by a very detached shedoc that I had advanced third stage breast cancer, spread to nodes, (you guys know the medical term, but it was estrogen positive) in ducts or out of them ...
I CAN HARDLY WALK TODAY
- By so-tired · Posted October 7, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I HAVE SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH ME, BUT TODAY IS REALLY BAD. I AM SO WEAK, AND CAN HARDLY WALK! ANY IDEAS AS TO WHAT THIS COULD BE? I'M SCARED! PLEASE, REPLY? LINDA (SO TIRED ...
Sharing from my morning for all animal and especially horse lovers
- By paaatriot101 · Posted yesterday at 1:44 pm
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Thought I would share this from my morning with all you animal and especially horse lovers. Today I started wearing a mask when I go down to the barn and work around the horses and chickens and hay ...
DOES ANYONE USE A SPINOMED III?
- By Meevenna · Posted October 27, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I have kyphosis and I just got a spinomed lll. I read that people also use this brace for osteoporosis. I would like to talk to some one who also wears this brace. I have quite a few questions about this ...
More benefits of Vitamin D
- By Char42 · Posted October 17, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- October 6, 2009 Surprising discovery may hold the key to fighting the swine flu A doctor from a care center in Wisconsin recently made an amazing discovery that could help you fight the swine flu. He ...
Too much Acidity of the body being one of the problems?
- By LindaSS · Posted October 16, 2009
- Discussion in Vitamins and supplements · 1 recommendation
- I've seen other posts in this site about acidity being possibly one of the contributors to osteoporisis. I'm new, I'm trying to get as much info from experienced people here as I can. I read the following ...
Sharing With Tough Minded Friends With Great Balls Of Fire!
- By GRANDmother19 · Posted October 12, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- "Happily married." Now that's a novelty Ms. Santa Fe! Read about MY Inspiration. Um - gonna check on the prune thing. Not a clue about IGF-1 - Has never been mentioned to me in my entire life, via any ...
I'm an RN that got hurt and my health went to pot!
- By RobynRae · Posted October 7, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- This is my first time on this site to recored any info and I hope I do it right! I'm still in the learning stages of the computers and what I can and can't do which is keep my fingers on the right keys ...
