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Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 23, 2009
  • 28 replies
  • 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 ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 22, 2009
  • 39 replies
  • 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 ...

alert for Aussies in Sydney area - cu levels high in WATER

Bel
  • By Bel · New reply June 19, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • If you are living in, or travelling around Sydney please take special care - purchase water, get your home water levels tested...... Am only assuming there would be market gardens in vicinity?? Geographically ...

Iron Deficiency

Schwebke
  • By Schwebke · New reply June 19, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Does anyone who is taking cuprimine have iron deficiency? If so, is there any danger to taking iron suppplements? Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, Linda Ottawa, Ontario ...

Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 12, 2009
  • 32 replies
  • 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 ...

Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply June 9, 2009
  • 35 replies
  • 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 ...

I want to have a healthy baby!

Lady2009
  • By Lady2009 · New reply June 4, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • I have WD, I received a Transplant in '92 I was 12 now I am 28. My clock is ticking! I need advice on the proper procedures I should take, I already met with the OB/GYN Doctor he recommended me to the ...

a typical day

bandgeek72391
  • By bandgeek72391 · Posted May 25, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • I have what doctors believe to be tourettes syndrome but i can't be officially diagnosed for a year. i also have OCD. every morning, before they diagnosed and started treating me for OCD, i would perform ...

Looking for a doctor

Manickmutt
  • By Manickmutt · New reply May 22, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • I was diagnosed about 32 years ago after losing my speech, ability to walk, balance, swallow and being overcome with tremors. After about 15 years, and a number of hospitalizations, including some for ...

Wilson's Disease changed my life....

Bree_C
  • By Bree_C · New reply May 21, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • In a matter of a few weeks I went from a normal 19 year old college student to a gravely ill girl. I first started feeling ill when i went home for my spring break march 7-15, 2009. Im, normally a morning ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 12, 2009
  • 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 ...

disturbing 3 months for a 20yr old girl

AnjaB7
  • By AnjaB7 · New reply May 7, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • so, here's how it all started: it was almost three months ago when i woke up and noticed severe unexplained edemas on my legs, so i immediately went to my doctors. they took a blood and urine sample and ...

More WD Information

Rose5
  • By Rose5 · New reply May 6, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • Hi All x Hope this finds you well - I jump in this community occasionally and read what everyone is writing...if anyone needs any further information, there is another community most of us are also a ...

WD 1952

sisandbros
  • By sisandbros · New reply May 3, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • In 1952 one of my sibs was diagnosed with WD and had portacaval shunt at SFU Hospital. The shunt did not work and he continued to have symptoms, vomiting blood, headaches, weakness, fatigue. He continued ...

Moms, you rock!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 1, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • 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 ...

Intro

VBJunkee
  • By VBJunkee · New reply April 24, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • My name is Rob and I’m 37 years old. I was initially diagnosed with ADHD and depression because of severe fatigue, memory issues, and trouble concentrating [misdiagnosis?] after returning from Iraq a ...

Living with WD

Marta1983
  • By Marta1983 · New reply April 24, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • I am from Poland. I am 26 right know. I was diagnosed with WD 4 years ago. I was the first one in my family, because none of us knew that we have some kind of genetic disease in our family. At the beginning ...

Living the dream

QueenofCopper
  • By QueenofCopper · New reply April 24, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • Hello all.. I am happy to be a part of this website.. Finally i have arrived! I was diagnosed with Wilson's Disease back in 1974.. Everyday i think of why i am still here, and his name is Frank, my oldest ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · New reply April 14, 2009
  • 14 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 ...

EGD (again)

Aang
  • By Aang · Posted April 12, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • I've got another EGD scheduled this coming week. I'll be having them every four to six weeks until the varicies are under control. There was a time in 2003-2007 where I was going six months to a year ...

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