Today, the PatientsLikeMe Multiple Sclerosis (MS) community welcomed its 10,000th patient member!
As we end 2008, more than 10,000 patients in our community are coming together to share their life experiences on PatientsLikeMe. How much experience is that? Try more than 32,000 YEARS of collective experience with MS.
More members than ever are sharing in-depth health information with each other, having repeatedly seen the value that this provides to others (and to themselves). Our forum is where members convene to find support and talk about all sorts of health-related topics, including MS-related treatments. Copaxone, Avonex, Tysabri, Baclofen, Rebif, Betaseron, LDN and 4-AP and others top the list of treatments discussed this year. In addition to our dedicated treatment evaluation reports, several members also use the forum to keep journals of their experiences with specific treatments to better help others understand these meds. There is also a good deal of discussion on dealing with other aspects of MS, such as depression, steroids, family and relationships, etc. To date, the forum has more than 17,000 posts.
Ready to share your experiences with us in 2009? Check us out to see what patients like you are doing to live their best life with MS. Happy New Year!
Hello
Thank you for your site and blog. I work in medical education and have been wondering about how students can learn from the online voices of patients. See here:
http://wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com/2008/12/students-learning-from-patients-online.html
Do you have any thoughts about this?
Anne Marie