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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 ...
"You Can't Have That or You'd Be Dead By Now!"
- By caringcounterparts · Posted August 31, 2007
- Discussion in Getting a diagnosis · 13 recommendations
- For a little bit of fun (I figured we could use it) I thought I'd start a collection of ridiculous comments from doctors that we've all received as we tried to get a diagnosis. I'll kick off the list ...
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 ...
"HYPOKALEMIA OR LOW POTASSIUM"
- By mandyblue · Posted June 2, 2009
- Journal · 7 recommendations
- I want to share this research information in "My Journal". This is a very long collection of articles, that explains in great detail, about Hypokalemia or Low Potassium. It is for anyone who needs help ...
Loveology - a poem to inspire
- By Poetessa · Posted March 28, 2008
- Discussion in How my disease has changed my life · 6 recommendations
- Since my diagnosis I have viewed life differently. I truly value the good moments more and more though the bad moments are still so very hard to bare sometimes. I have the worst time with the pain that ...
Cramp Fasciculation Syndrome
- By Griff · Posted November 9, 2008
- Discussion in Getting a diagnosis · 4 recommendations
- For two years I have been having electric shocks in my arms and hands, muscle twitches all over, and excruciating stabbing pains in my thighs and calves. This week I was finally diagnosed with Cramp Fasciculation ...
Conn's syndrome (hyperaldosteronism)
- By jacque · Posted April 12, 2008
- Discussion in Finding emotional support · 4 recommendations
- I would like to know someone else's story about their experience with Conn's syndrome. What were their symptoms before they were finally dignosed, and what is their treatment (medication or surgery ...
Exhausted....hurting....mad
- By MelissaShuford · Posted October 8, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- I don't even know what to feel or say anymore,what to ask the Drs.,what to be concerned about (worry),what to do or not do.......this world of renal disease is overwhelming to me.....I think I understand ...
To: Pain From: Me
- By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 2 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
- By dizzybee · Posted October 2, 2009
- Journal · 2 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 ...
Conn's Syndrome and Kidney pain
- By nikki_G · Posted June 8, 2009
- Discussion in How my disease has changed my life · 2 recommendations
- I was wondering if anyone one else with Conn's syndrome gets extreme kidney and flank pain. I have regular bouts of extreme pain and spend quite a bit of time in hospital but the doctors here do not know ...
Chondrocalcinosis CPPD
- By 1irishman · Posted May 7, 2009
- Discussion in My disease has no treatment · 2 recommendations
- Does anyone have this disease? Looking to find anyone interested in having a support group. How do you deal with the constant pain? Need someone to talk to who knows what it is like ...
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP)
- By nativef0x · Posted February 14, 2007
- Discussion in My disease has no treatment · 2 recommendations
- My 16 yr. old son was diagnosed a few months ago with HSP Henoch- Schonlein purpura. His 1st symptom was a reddish purple dotted rash from his thighs down to his ankles. The rash went away after about ...
Living with Ollier's
- By Mummakaren · Posted October 19, 2009
- Discussion in Finding emotional support · 1 recommendation
- My name is Karen and I have Ollier's disease. I am 36 years old now and have never had the chance to talk to any one else who has it as well. I started having surgeries when I was 10 years old and about ...
Electrolyte Abnormalities
- By mandyblue · Posted June 7, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- This information is being posted in "My Journal" for anyone who wishes to use it as reference material to help understand their electrolytes, and metabolic disorders. I have previously promised my friends ...
Posterior Scleritis
- By arielyn76 · Posted May 6, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Gary Holland M.D. at Jules Stein Eye Inst., UCLA
- By Charlie2 · Posted February 2, 2008
- Discussion in Finding a doctor · 1 recommendation
- I have been diagnosed with choroiditis serpiginous. I see Gary Holland M.D. at Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA. He is top-notch and worth going to. He is 100% dedicated to his patients. I have had the ...
