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New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
  • 8 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Share your story via video!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted June 15, 2009
  • 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 ...

"HYPOKALEMIA OR LOW POTASSIUM"

mandyblue
  • By mandyblue · Posted June 2, 2009
  • 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 ...

Snarky Sarkies... Everywhere!

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted February 6, 2009
  • 7 recommendations
  • The bad news is: There are a lot of Snarky Sarkies out there. The good news is: There are a lot of Snarky Sarkies out there making noise about it! A quick update on the grassroots Snarky Sarkie campaign ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • 7 recommendations
  • 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 ...

“You order red dog, you eat red dog!” Shroomsville Experiment UPDATE

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted April 20, 2009
  • 6 recommendations
  • “You order red dog, you eat red dog!” I’m off the Red Reishi Mushroom bandwagon. It does not work. The only thing it seems to benefit is the person selling it. As you may have read (re-printed below ...

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 64

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted January 11, 2009
  • 6 recommendations
  • READ NEXT CARTOON >>> "Don't just complain... Be a Snarky Sarkie!" Click Here! Read More of TheGardener's Journal Here ...

Moms, you rock!

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

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 65-70

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted April 1, 2009
  • 5 recommendations
  • LINER NOTES: After an all-to-brief interlude of symptoms, Sally is thrust back into the blender of Sarcoidosis cure-alls. READ NEXT CARTOON >>> To read Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes from the start, Click ...

THEY Walk Among Us!

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted August 30, 2007
  • 5 recommendations
  • THEY Walk Among Us! Hey kids! I just stumbled across this old black and white 1954 science fiction horror film about Sarcoidosis while I was at a garage sale. It was in a musty cardboard box under some ...

Things We Don't Say Out Loud -----

gracie62
  • By gracie62 · Posted August 16, 2009
  • 4 recommendations
  • I have come a long way in my journey with heart disease, but I still struggle. I try to laugh out loud as much as I can, but sometimes I really don't get the joke. I go through the motions more than I ...

Guestbooks are now live!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 26, 2009
  • 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 ...

Rabid Barking Lymph Nodes 63

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted December 31, 2008
  • 4 recommendations
  • READ NEXT CARTOON >>> "Don't just complain... Be a Snarky Sarkie!" Click Here! Read More of TheGardener's Journal Here ...

1st cardiology appointment

tlens
  • By tlens · Posted March 26, 2008
  • 4 recommendations
  • Hi I'm new here. I wonder if you can give me some insight. I went to the first cardiology appointment from referral from my family physician. Symptoms were tightness in the chest sometimes radiating to ...

The First Semi-Annual Sarcoidosis International Cup

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted September 17, 2007
  • 4 recommendations
  • The First Semi-Annual Sarcoidosis International Cup Grab your best mates, belly up to the foot rail, order a pint or three, and some pub grub— The First Semi-Annual Sarcoidosis International Cup is on ...

The Young and the Breathless — A Sarc Opera

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted January 24, 2007
  • 4 recommendations
  • The Young and the Breathless — A Sarc Opera (cue up opening organ music) When last we saw young Miss Caitlin Honeybutton, she was grief-stricken as to the sudden passing of her current ex-fiancé, Trevor ...

You are Tougher than You Think.

theGardener
  • By theGardener · Posted December 20, 2006
  • 4 recommendations
  • You are Tougher than You Think. Having been floored, and down for the count, by Sarcoidosis on more than one occasion, I would never make the mistake of belittling the seriousness of it. Sarcoidosis—the ...

SO excited to share what I have found!

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · Posted November 4, 2009
  • 3 recommendations
  • I have received TONS of wonderful support from this amazing community of people just like myself. All that struggle with debilitating symptoms, wrong diagnosis, less than quality doctors etc... I wish ...

To: Pain From: Me

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
  • 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 ...

10 years of life

nanamo
  • By nanamo · Posted October 19, 2009
  • 3 recommendations
  • today is 10 years of having a massive heart attack at the age of 32 family history and smoking were my factors women need to edcuate themselves in warning signs and symptons of heart attack for women ...

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