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Journals

WITH WD

RICHA
  • By RICHA · Posted July 18, 2008
  • 12 replies
  • Friends, I am from India and I'm living with WD since my early childhood. Fighting with this disease is not easy. I was having a very tough childhood. My parents thought that I am spoiling or getting ...

Trientine

Casca
  • By Casca · Posted July 10, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • How long will it take to see the effect of using Trientine? I started two weeks ago with 400 mg 3 times a day. I'm also taking Wilzin (zinc) 50mg 3 times a day for more than 7 months now. Still have no ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
  • 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 ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
  • 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 ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
  • 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 ...

Cuprimine Available in Canada Again

Schwebke
  • By Schwebke · Posted June 8, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • To all WD patients using Cuprimine in Canada. Health Canada has approved Cuprimine and it is fully available through your pharmacist again. Linda Ottawa, Ontario Canada ...

More WD Information

Rose5
  • By Rose5 · Posted June 3, 2008
  • 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 ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
  • 34 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 ...

From the beginning till now

Casca
  • By Casca · Posted May 18, 2008
  • 15 replies
  • December 2006: - My colleagues have said that i had changed in my behaviour. Spring 2007: - Able to walk, but only at one speed - Difficulties with orientation - Tired most of the time Summer 2007 ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
  • 19 replies
  • Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...

New feature - See what you've replied to

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
  • 26 replies
  • Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • 135 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 ...

Being Diagnosed with WD

bluetree
  • By bluetree · Posted April 11, 2008
  • 8 replies
  • I am new to this, and would like to say hi to everyone. I am in the middle of diagnoses for WD. I am having severe nuerological problems over the last six weeks. My spelling and writing was bad before ...

Changes that you have requested are on the way

Beth
  • By Beth · Posted March 28, 2008
  • 15 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
  • 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
  • 19 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 ...

Getting a transplant

Gina001
  • By Gina001 · Posted February 21, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • So follow up tests have been done. My drug therapy is working well. I never miss a dose. The copper is coming off just as it should. But even as the copper copper comes off ,my cirrhosis and liver damage ...

Mutation Screening

buddynusa
  • By buddynusa · Posted January 22, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hello all I recieved my Genectic screening back . going to write it in here it is going to be foren to most here , but I can help med field .I have my story in dec 2007 archives listed as WD @ 47 one ...

Take 2

Rose5
  • By Rose5 · Posted January 21, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hi All xx Geez I had a bad week but all is good now and I am ready to go into the hospital and tackle the doctors again to do with monitoring and meds for Lauren I have done all my homework and now I ...

On our way :)

Rose5
  • By Rose5 · Posted January 13, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • well I was really happy today seeing the liver specialist :) He has had alot of wilson disease cases so I felt right at home there - and he told me Lauren was doing well and that her liver was coming ...

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