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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 23 recommendations
- 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 ...
Follow Inspire on Twitter and Facebook!
- By TeamInspire · Posted June 10, 2009
- Journal · 12 recommendations
- 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 ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 10 recommendations
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
To Acknowledge a Frustrating Weekend When I Just Couldn't Get Much Done
- By debs1 · Posted May 18, 2008
- Discussion in How heart disease has changed my life · 7 recommendations
- The Beta Blocker Blues I’m all tired out, I feel like hell, I’m feelin’ kinda down, My limbs feel real heavy and my face it wears a frown, I wanna hit the couch now, and take a long, long snooze Yup ...
SO excited to share what I have found!
- By pwrsrg77 · Posted November 4, 2009
- Journal · 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
- By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Study: "Women have same heart attack symptoms as men, including chest pain"
- By Kennarina · Posted October 30, 2009
- Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 3 recommendations
- You may have come across this 'research' report in the past week. All week I've been thinking that this study on heart attack symptoms (done on patients having an elective, scheduled, non-emergency angioplasty ...
Bottoms of Feet Hurt - especially the Heel
- By Peggy59 · Posted November 17, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- 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 ...
Stop the Gloom & Doom
- By primetimelady · Posted November 7, 2009
- Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 2 recommendations
- I realize that this may make me the bad guy but I don't care it is the truth. In the beginning, for the most part I found this website helpful. There are a lot of wonderful and supportive women here ...
Talking to Those that Have No Clue
- By Lynnedz56 · Posted November 4, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- A group of us were talking in the breakroom today at the large company I work for. They were talking about all the things done for Breast Cancer last month and I said it was a worthy cause, but were they ...
Arrhythmias
- By redhead4u777 · Posted October 8, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- In my mind I was planning out my day, mindlessly performing my pre-work morning rituals. Make my lunch-check. Iron my shirt-check. Wake up on the kitchen floor. What? Did I just faint again? On the way ...
Anybody Else "Fake It?"
- By DebBar · Posted November 17, 2009
- Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 1 recommendation
- 99% of us here have some sort of heart problem. We've gone through (or going through) a life changing ordeal with surgeries, medications, and countless other things. Wonderful people like family & friends ...
I was challenged by a Facebook friend
- By heartgoddess · Posted November 11, 2009
- Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 1 recommendation
- To post one thing I am thankful for each day until Thanksgiving. I think it is a lovely idea, and thought that after the thread that has taken up so much time with everyone on WomenHeart, it might be ...
Statins
- By jay73 · Posted November 9, 2009
- Discussion in Experiences with prescription medicines · 1 recommendation
- The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency in the UK have published 'new' advice (not 'new' to many people in this community!) in relation to side effects of statins. Here's the link for those of ...
heres me
- By danhartman1959 · Posted November 6, 2009
- Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 1 recommendation
- im a 50 year old guy with dialated cardiomayopathy this week was implanted with a crtd but the shocl theapy is off ef is up around 35% si dr really thinks thats safe for me time will tell this heart stuff ...
Irregular ECG
- By laurw2 · Posted November 4, 2009
- Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 1 recommendation
- Has anyone had an irregular ECG, (EKG)? I had one, and was sent immediately to a Cardiologist, and had a stress test, and it was perfect. But, I am still worried, My ECG said I have ST depression and ...
Name change proposal for women's heart disease to IHD
- By martzj · Posted November 4, 2009
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 1 recommendation
- This is from November Heart to Heart e-newsletter. If you haven't done so, take a few moments to subscribe to this free WH resourse. It is loaded with the latest in women's heart news, research links ...
ICD, LQT, low potassium
- By edmar · Posted November 3, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I'm a SCA survivor, and i'm lucky to be alive again. I fainted, April 23, 2009, the reason i was rushed to the hospital. I was admitted for 12 days, and after a series of tests and investigation, my doctor ...
SuperFantastic Spices/ Low sodium
- By LeahS · Posted November 1, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Well, I have to share with everyone here that I have found the greatest thing since sliced bread. Col. De Ray at Findlay Market in Cincinnati now has an online store. But if you live anywhere close by ...
SCAD research UPDATE
- By KAKLeon · Posted October 28, 2009
- Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 1 recommendation
- November 3, 2009 Great news!!! Dr. Hayes would like to review an initial group of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) records for purposes of developing the research protocol. She’d like about ...
