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CANCER PAIN STUDY

Rj
  • By Rj · Posted November 19, 2008
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • I have been accepted for this study and will actually start the drug, sativex or the placebo on friday 11/21/08. the study is still open and conducted in Hagerstown, MD. If your interested you can e-mail ...

GONE NEVER MEANS FORGOTTEN

Rj
  • By Rj · Posted November 8, 2008
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • My friend, who was like a brother to me, was diagnosed with renal cell cancer, died yesterday. He was diagnosed last July and went so fast I and his family are stunned. And I know this is just the beginning ...

PAIN & TREATMENTS

Rj
  • By Rj · Posted October 26, 2008
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • I've searched through all of my groups, but, haven't found any mention of "HYPERTROPHIC OSTEOARTHROPATHY" Please let me know if you have heard of this diagnoses? The pain is in all of my joints and bones ...

RESENTMENT vs GUILT

Rj
  • By Rj · Posted October 2, 2008
  • Journal · 44 replies
  • I just stopped myself from replying to a post regarding caregiver resentment for cancer patients, and it's acceptance! I feel this is a 'open wound' subject that 'we' should discuss with a broad range ...

FRIENDSHIP- REVISITED

Rj
  • By Rj · Posted September 30, 2008
  • Journal · 10 replies
  • Once again, LC patients tell the truth about 'friends and family's so far 44 more replies and counting to yet another discussion posted about how our so called friends decided to become (fill in the blank ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • Journal · 48 replies
  • 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 ...

medicaid's replacement..

windtalker
  • By windtalker · Posted July 3, 2008
  • Discussion in Wellness · 0 replies
  • living near cincinnati,and still fighting with social security for my disability for a obvious-documentable-spinal chord injury, as everyone who WAS on medicaid,here in ohio,we were NOT given a choice--we ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
  • Journal · 24 replies
  • 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 ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • 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 ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 10, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • 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 ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • 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 ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • 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 ...

passive / agressive attitude

windtalker
  • By windtalker · Posted April 29, 2008
  • Discussion in Wellness · 2 replies
  • it starts as a subtle glance,caught out of the corner of my eye,progressing to subtle mis-information about the availability of either care or meds..usually dealing with money,and your ability to pay ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • Journal · 124 replies
  • 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 ...

Changes that you have requested are on the way

Beth
  • By Beth · Posted March 28, 2008
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • 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 ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • 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 · Posted March 13, 2008
  • Journal · 20 replies
  • 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 ...

Perimenopause/Menopause/Hysterectomy

Susan12
  • By Susan12 · Posted October 25, 2007
  • Discussion in Women's health · 0 replies
  • If perimenopause can last up to 10 years, and menopause can last 5 to 10 years, other than the risk of osteoporosis, why wouldn't a woman choose to have a complete hysterectomy (thereby going directly ...

Sugar woes

WILMA718
  • By WILMA718 · Posted June 12, 2007
  • Discussion in Diabetes · 0 replies
  • I have recently started both Januvia and Weight Watchers. Having some issues with sugar levels dropping too low, my doc is adjusting my insulin to try to accommodate. Any suggestions on how to NOT sabatoge ...

Exercise

Dave
  • By Dave · Posted April 17, 2007
  • Discussion in Wellness · 1 reply
  • Does anyone have any suggestions for good upper body strength training that can be done at home? I have a home gym with an exercise bike and treadmill - great for lower body / aerobic exercise - and some ...

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