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Getting Medical Advice on the Web from Other Patients

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on April first I was given a pneumonia shot and I became very ill on the 2nd of April. fever reached 105. headache,fatigued, lethargic,inability to get the right words out. and more. some time has paused had many test they came back fine and I had a spinal tap but it was traumatic so not a good read. I am still having l problems headaches all day long in my back of my head and neck. trouble sleeping and trouble waking up. It has been a long 4 weeks. I went to a neuro saw her about 10 minutes she sent me for a spinal tap. got the spinal and it was a traumatic tap so not a good read. so I am back to sqwuare one and not sure what to do!

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Hotel in Muenster buchen of 7:06AM April 03, 2010

Hello -
WE have launched a site - FacetoFaceHealth (http://www.facetofacehealth.com) that is designed to match patients together so that they can ask questions from each other, etc. We have built HealthMatch as a algorythm to match people together based upon SNOMED medical conditions database of over 2,000,000 conditions.
Thanks

Nowell of CO 2:21PM December 08, 2009

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Lynne Bishop of MA 6:51PM September 22, 2009

i would like to get information about severe copd, i have it and the medications i am taking are not helping me, i would love to chat on line or find a different city to visit a new doctor. i live in mobile, al. thanks cindy carroll

cindy carroll of AL 4:40PM September 03, 2009

i HAVE LOSS MY SUGAR TASTE FOR 2 MONTHS NOW AND I HAVE A BAD TASTE IN MY MOUTH ITS LIKE PERFUME OR SOMETHING WHAT COULD THIS BE.

NANCY of NJ 5:03PM August 09, 2009

One must use common sense and logic in doing this, but I agree - the Web has transformed the world's medical area. Lives have been saved, diagnoses gained and doctors are now aware that if they don't keep up, their clients will fire them, in favor of someone who does.
Some doctors yet poo poo information on the web but inside they are really fearful - as they KNOW that there is often knowledge that they don't have out there in cyberworld.
The intelligent medical professionals will update themselves all they can, if they want to keep their jobs.

julie of IA 2:00AM July 27, 2009

Thanks for all the thoughtful comments! I"ve learned a lot. Ann, thanks particularly for mentioning medhelp, mdjunction, and dailystrength. I had to leave out many terrific sites; space is a problem, even on the web. Do you have other patient sites you like? Please share them!
Nancy

Nancy Shute of DC 2:56PM July 22, 2009

We are excited to reach out to many people who have invisible illnesses at www,invisbilellnessweek.com Sept 4-20, 2009, where we will have a free virtual conference online for 5 days. I also just recently began Illness Twitters www.illnesstwitters.ning.com . Bringing patients together to improve their own lives and making them part of bringing awareness to their diseases is an instrumental step in improving our own care, emotionally AND physically!
Thanks for a great article.

Lisa Copen of CA 12:03AM July 18, 2009