Already a member? Sign in
Welcome to Inspire!
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.
How - Joining Inspire is completely free and usually takes less than a minute. Join now!
Active
pots/dysautonomia
- By Nina372 · New reply 3:08 am
- Journal · 6 replies
- Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about getting a pace maker for their postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots ...
Acceptance
- By formy3 · New reply 12:53 am
- Journal · 9 replies
- Well at last im accepting the fact that I have throat cancer at the time it is still hard to beleive that it is there inside my body invading and doing as it pleases , at first I was angry ,I didnt understand ...
So Many Questions!
- By only1hart · New reply 12:49 am
- Journal · 1 reply
- Hi to all I had my heart attack on Oct 12, just 3 days after turning 54. I was out of town and it was Sunday morning about 7am. I had taken a hot shower and was getting dressed when I suddenly felt out ...
What You Should Know About C-Reactive Protein
- By Ecksunbeam · New reply 12:44 am
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 4 replies
- Heart Health Special Report What You Should Know About C-Reactive Protein One of the key markers for measuring heart attack risk has been elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol ...
"Not a peep about meep... " Blame the Muppets!
- By Kennarina · New reply 12:44 am
- Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 5 replies
- Just to brighten your day: Oh, my! I'm just picking myself up off the floor after I fell down laughing at this article in the Vancouver Sun newspaper about a school in Salem, Mass. re the growing tension ...
Things I Can/Did Live Without.....
- By gracie62 · New reply 12:07 am
- Journal · 2 replies
- Just for fun - with Christmas coming. It started when I went shopping with my pregnant daughter a few years ago. I started making a mental list of things I can/did live without. She wanted to register ...
Anybody else sick of doctors telling you to "stop overreacting"???
- By RedneckMama · New reply yesterday at 10:42 pm
- Discussion in Experiences with healthcare professionals · 11 replies
- Having been through this myself and reading TONS of biographies of other women with PPCM or any type of heart disease...I have noticed that if our doctors had listened the first time when we said "something's ...
Depression, meds, and insurance companies
- By goingstrong · New reply yesterday at 10:31 pm
- Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 3 replies
- Well, chalk one up for the insurance companies on making me jump through 'hoops' to stay healthier. I have been on an SSRI for depression since the mid 90's and have gradually eliminated most of the earlier ...
First Time Here
- By only1hart · New reply yesterday at 9:53 pm
- Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 2 replies
- Hello to all... This is my first time here and I am just learning my way around. I am finding so many interesting stories here. Most of all that I am not alone and I am very lucky for my situation compared ...
The Man Cold (Don't miss this one : )
- By martzj · New reply yesterday at 9:03 pm
- Journal · 9 replies
- This is just too hilarious to stay buried deep in another post. Thanks to Lidia from United Kingdom for the belly laugh link! I'm going to use it in a Power Point presentation on the care level women ...
Does exercise contribute to arthritis? Runners knees?
- By martzj · New reply yesterday at 9:00 pm
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 8 replies
- Harvard Medical School offers special reports on over 50 health topics. Visit our Web site at http://www.health.harvard.edu to find reports of interest to you and your family. Copyright © 2009 by Harvard ...
Bottoms of Feet Hurt - especially the Heel
- By Peggy59 · New reply yesterday at 6:13 pm
- Journal · 40 replies
- I've had a new development in the last couple of months in that the bottom of my feet hurt, especially the left heel. I brought it up with my apt with my rheumatologist in October and he said I may need ...
Does atrail fibrillation episode = atrial fibriallation diagnosis?
- By rody · Posted yesterday at 5:57 pm
- Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 0 replies
- Hi All: I see my GP Tues., so maybe she'll have the answer. I had tachy cardia and atrial fibrillation episode-woke up late one night with heart rate at 150 and BP at 209/190-ended up with squad ride ...
Heart Rate
- By shortcake · New reply yesterday at 4:47 pm
- Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 9 replies
- My heart rate has always been high. around 80 or 90 even at resting. I am on 50 mg of atenolol. lately my heart rate has dropped in the evenings to 52 for a resting heart rate. I feel really strange ...
Heart Healthy Menu
- By lashawnsheart · New reply yesterday at 4:30 pm
- Journal · 23 replies
- I am having a difficult fun time (weird I know )finding Heart Healthy meals. I was so in love with beacon but I had to say no more. It was hard because everything taste good with bacon and butter. Anyway ...
Help! Acid reflux after taking heart meds?
- By Meggali · New reply yesterday at 2:57 pm
- Discussion in Experiences with prescription medicines · 2 replies
- This is my first post and I'm really hoping to find some clues to the cause of my recent horrible bouts of acid reflux. I had a heart attack last Dec.--95% of LAD blocked, stent put in within hours, sent ...
Stent Pain
- By SteveFlorida · New reply yesterday at 2:43 pm
- Discussion in Experiences with medical treatments · 5 replies
- http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:FKu nunr8RIYJ:www.scielo.br/scielo.php%3Fpid %3DS0102-76382003000400002%26script%3Dsc i_arttext+inflammation+from+coronary+ste nt&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us The above ...
SO excited to share what I have found!
- By pwrsrg77 · New reply yesterday at 2:14 pm
- Journal · 42 replies
- 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 ...
your symptoms of heart attack
- By shortcake · New reply yesterday at 12:01 pm
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 7 replies
- I was just wondering for those who have had a heart attack what were your symtoms and did you notice things different leading up to your heart attack> I have had some different symtoms lately and wondered ...
can 2 stents put in LAD at the same time
- By srimal · New reply yesterday at 11:31 am
- Discussion in Experiences with healthcare professionals · 14 replies
- My father got was having a chest pain and he did the Angiography where report says tht LAD had 90 % , other 2 had 80% blockages.. Doctor put 2 stents in the LAD overlapping (without our Consent while ...
