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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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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 · 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!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Changes that you have requested are on the way
- By Beth · Posted 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 ...
Share your story via video!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
- Journal · 7 recommendations
- 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 ...
Moms, you rock!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
- Journal · 5 recommendations
- 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 ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- 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 ...
"What can I do for you?"
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 4 recommendations
- After my mastectomy, everyone asked the above question. I decided that to say "nothing" was not only a wrong answer but also deprived people of being blessed by helping to take care of me. So I decided ...
To: Pain From: Me
- By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Vulnerability
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Living with a chronic illness has forced me to become vulnerable. I was a very capable woman, able to keep many balls in the air at the same time - go ahead and throw another one at me. Fibromyalgia eliminated ...
NUCCA
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- This is the National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association. It has been around for a few decades. The treatment isn't new. But the doctors that do it are few. I encourage you to check it out on the ...
Cardiac Patients: Obtain record copies now
- By martzj · Posted February 24, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- Stop trusting US medical staff to take charge of your record transfers between. The odds of this happening with zero errors are not in your favor. HIPPA means that all US citizens are entitled (whether ...
Isn't it strange...
- By ShannonZ · Posted July 22, 2008
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- that quite a few of us on here have more then one health "issue"? We ALL must be tough cookies ...
Your Dizzy Laugh of The Day
- By Unsure · Posted August 20, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- I'm lightheaded allllll the time! Have been for years. I often say that if the cops ever pulled me over, I could never pass the drunk driving test because I'm so dizzy all the time. I remember the first ...
I Let Em' Have It Today! How Dare They?!
- By Unsure · Posted August 18, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Anyway, how do you deal with people not really knowing what we deal with and the daily fight that we deal with feeling that they have the right to tell you that you need to fight? I am so sick and tired ...
i think im losing my hair
- By kimikiwi1987 · Posted June 21, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- okay ive been on cyclosporine for like 3 wks now and i think im starting to lose my hair, its like one bad side effect after another.....when is this missory going to end....idk but i am glad im getting ...
We all have something in our lives to inspire us.
- By Nina372 · Posted May 9, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- We all have something in our lives to inspire us and sometimes I think we all need to take the time to recognize them to bring back the hope we feel for our day to day lives and not forget that even when ...
"At least you didn't lose all your hair"
- By Luke747 · Posted March 20, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- People mean well. They really do! When chemotherapy made me look like a boy, it was just a wee bit troubling. When my husband first set his eyes on me after the inevitable haircut, the love in them set ...
REAL News about sleep
- By CircadiAbsurdium · Posted April 23, 2008
- Discussion in In the news · 2 recommendations
- Is anyone else tired of seeing "news" stories about sleep that turn out to be nothing but the same regurgitated sleep hygiene tips doctors have been spewing for the past 50 years? That advice works great ...
Bright Light Therapy
- By CircadiAbsurdium · Posted April 13, 2008
- Discussion in Experiences with alternative treatments · 2 recommendations
- I think I might have circadian rhythm disorder (delayed sleep phase syndrome) so I got a light box and in about a week was able to shift my natural wake time from noon to about 9am. And so far I'm far ...
