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Support your group and raise awareness with badges
- By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
- Journal · 33 recommendations
- 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 ...
Welcome from TeamInspire!
- By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
- Journal · 25 recommendations
- 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 ...
Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire
- By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
- Journal · 22 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 ...
Sometimes we make mistakes
- By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
- Journal · 19 recommendations
- 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 ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 9 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 ...
"HYPOKALEMIA OR LOW POTASSIUM"
- By mandyblue · Posted June 2, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
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 ...
All the SCAD ladies, put your hands up
- By laurahc · Posted September 23, 2009
- Discussion in My heart disease - diagnosis and symptoms · 4 recommendations
- (apologies to Beyonce') When I first got here, everyone was--and still is!--really supportive and said to "type 'SCAD' in the search bar" and read all the various discussions about spontaneous coronary ...
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 ...
10 years of life
- By nanamo · Posted October 19, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Disturbing Symptoms, insight please!
- By shell1925 · Posted June 22, 2009
- Discussion in Younger women with heart disease · 3 recommendations
- Hello all! I am new to this board and found it by googling "left arm pain 30 year old". Well, anyways I am 30 (soon to be 31) and I have a 2 year old (soon to be 3) son. While I was pregnant with my son ...
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 ...
To: Pain From: Me
- By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
- Journal · 2 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 ...
Stop the Gloom & Doom
- By primetimelady · Posted yesterday at 1:31 pm
- Discussion in Emotional and psychological issues · 1 recommendation
- 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 ...
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 ...
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 records for purposes of developing the research protocol. She’d like about 10 of our files for starters, and has outlined ...
Women may have both ischemic HD & large vessel blockage
- By martzj · Posted October 19, 2009
- Discussion in Advice for other women with heart disease · 1 recommendation
- "''The focus should be on ischemia and ischemic heart disease, particularly for women, and that women are not adequately served when we don't focus on that, when we just focus on the anatomy, the obstruction ...
