This week on our blog, we’ve been highlighting how patients like you are putting their experiences in context. With the launch of InstantMe and some of the design updates you read about, you can see we’re listening to your call for more functionality that lets you understand how your condition affects the whole you. Patient… Continue reading Share and Compare: Be a PRO! Understand Your Experiences in Context
Category: Conditions
Living with a health condition? On the PatientsLikeMe blog, find helpful health information and patient stories about being diagnosed, trying different treatments, and living day-to-day with a chronic condition.
Share and Compare: From the mouths of patients
As we round out our “Share and Compare” week, here are a few quotes that some of our members have shared regarding the impact of being able to see where you fit in. You’ll read in the quotes how patients like you can find solace in the fact that there are others out there experiencing… Continue reading Share and Compare: From the mouths of patients
Share and Compare Your Health Experience
“I want to know if what I’m going through is normal for a patient like me.” This is a sentiment we’ve heard from so many of you throughout our communities. This week, we’re focusing our blog on some of the ways we’re trying to help you put your experiences in context. It’s a concept we… Continue reading Share and Compare Your Health Experience
World AIDS Day 2010: Did you know…
Did you know today is World AIDS Day? Thanks to the many different organizations (including those like AIDS.gov) recognizing the day and raising awareness about HIV and AIDS. Now a few years old, the PatientsLikeMe HIV community currently has more than 2,800 people with HIV sharing their health information to help others learn from their… Continue reading World AIDS Day 2010: Did you know…
Share and Compare: How are you feeling? Find out with InstantMe!
Here at PatientsLikeMe we strive to give you the tools and functionalities you want and need to gain insights into your conditions, including putting your experiences in context. Today, we’re introducing a new tool in all of our communities called “InstantMe.” Want to chart how you’re feeling day in and day out? Now you can.… Continue reading Share and Compare: How are you feeling? Find out with InstantMe!
Epilepsy Awareness Month: The Alternative Way
It’s Epilepsy Awareness Month, so let’s continue with our series of blogs about our Epilepsy Community members’ experiences with this disease. Below is an interview with member “akamine2525.” Earlier this year, she gave the following interview in our monthly newsletter. Want to know what keeps akamine2525 motivated, who she admires and how epilepsy has affected… Continue reading Epilepsy Awareness Month: The Alternative Way
PatientsLikeMe at Health 2.0: Paths to Insight
Last month, I spoke once again at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco. The video of my presentation is now online. Here’s a snapshot of what I covered in the 6-minute talk: As I note in my presentation, there are a lot of caveats to what I have up on the screen. We as… Continue reading PatientsLikeMe at Health 2.0: Paths to Insight
Epilepsy Awareness Month: What do you know about Epilepsy?
Launched earlier this year, the PatientsLikeMe Epilepsy community now has more than 3,000 patients. In honor of Epilepsy Awareness Month, here’s a snapshot of what patients like you are sharing and learning about in this community. Did you know… How are our members treating their condition? What are their major symptoms? What are they talking… Continue reading Epilepsy Awareness Month: What do you know about Epilepsy?
Epilepsy Awareness Month: The Beauty and The Turbulence
Did you know November is Epilepsy Awareness Month? In honor of the month and to help raise awareness of epilepsy, here is the first in a series of blogs about our Epilepsy Community members’ experiences with this disease. To kick us off, let’s meet tonialpha, a three-star member and PRO who recently sat down with… Continue reading Epilepsy Awareness Month: The Beauty and The Turbulence
The Patient Voice | Episode 5: A Little Elbow Grease and a “Can Do” Attitude
I don’t think about what I can’t do,I think about what I can do. – Cher441 Over the past month, we’ve heard several stories about how PatientsLikeMe Parkinson’s Disease community members came together online and made a quilt that has traveled all around the world providing warmth, comfort and a sense of unity for each… Continue reading The Patient Voice | Episode 5: A Little Elbow Grease and a “Can Do” Attitude