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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
  • 23 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 ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
  • 12 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Inspire members featured

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
  • 10 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 ...

SO excited to share what I have found!

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · Posted November 4, 2009
  • 4 recommendations
  • I have received TONS of wonderful support from this amazing community of people just like myself. All that struggle with debilitating symptoms, wrong diagnosis, less than quality doctors etc... I wish ...

To: Pain From: Me

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
  • 3 recommendations
  • To: Pain From: Me Well hello pain, you might not want to hear this but you have out-stayed your welcome here in my body. You are the most annoying, agitating, distracting, way to needy, company that I ...

my NIH experience

dizzybee
  • By dizzybee · Posted October 2, 2009
  • 3 recommendations
  • THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE -- I HAVE TRIED TO LEAVE THE DOCTORS' INVOLVED NAMES OUT SO AS NOT TO CAUSE ISSUES -- AGAIN, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. Well, where to start--nurse took my vitals and some allergy ...

Isn't it strange...

ShannonZ
  • By ShannonZ · Posted July 22, 2008
  • 3 recommendations
  • that quite a few of us on here have more then one health "issue"? We ALL must be tough cookies ...

COURAGE

tmichaelroche
  • By tmichaelroche · Posted November 17, 2009
  • 2 recommendations
  • Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared, and how not to fear what ought not be feared. From this knowledge comes an inner strength that subconsciously ...

Nerve Block for Trigeminal Neuropathy

linnirose
  • By linnirose · Posted November 24, 2009
  • 1 recommendation
  • My neurosurgeon has suggested a nerve block for my 24/7 Trigeminal Neuropathy. Has anyone tried this, or does anyone have any information regarding this? I would really appreciate anything you know about ...

Arachnoid cysts and Arnold Chiari syndrome

Stefanija
  • By Stefanija · Posted November 17, 2009
  • 1 recommendation
  • My two year old son was just diagnosed last week with both of these. I am looking to meet others who has these or has a child who has these. I would like to find out more information and possibly hope ...

ICD, LQT, low potassium

edmar
  • By edmar · Posted November 3, 2009
  • 1 recommendation
  • I'm a SCA survivor, and i'm lucky to be alive again. I fainted, April 23, 2009, the reason i was rushed to the hospital. I was admitted for 12 days, and after a series of tests and investigation, my doctor ...

pots/dysautonomia

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
  • 1 recommendation
  • Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about getting a pace maker for their postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots ...

Posterior Scleritis

arielyn76
  • By arielyn76 · Posted May 6, 2009
  • 1 recommendation
  • Hello there. I am wondering if any one has this disease or knows of someone who does. I have yet to find anyone to talk to about this. The only information about this is pretty much the same things said ...

indolent systemic mastocytosis

marcia3
  • By marcia3 · Posted November 5, 2006
  • 1 recommendation
  • I would like to communicate with someone who has indolent systemic mastocytosis. I would like to find someone who understands what I am going through. Thanks ...

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