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Interstim Therapy: What are the side effects?

Everything about the Medtronic InterStim Therapy System

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Looking for a place to research or share your experiences with InterStim Therapy side effects?  You’ve come to the right place.  At PatientsLikeMe, more than 125,000 patients are sharing their experiences with all types of treatments, including prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, supplements and procedures. Manufactured by Medtronic, the InterStim Therapy System is surgically implanted device […]

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Hawaii 5-0: PatientsLikeMe at AAN 2011

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Here at PatientsLikeMe, we are not only focused on helping patients improve their health outcomes, but also on the cutting-edge research that enables those improvements. That’s why we couldn’t imagine better news when we learned that all five of our academic submissions to the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) were accepted for exhibition at their

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Lumiday Mood Enhancer supplement

Have you experienced Lumiday side effects?

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Wondering where you can learn about Lumiday Mood Enhancer or report Lumiday side effects?  You’ve come to the right place.  At PatientsLikeMe, more than 125,000 patients are sharing their experiences with all types of treatments, including prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, supplements and more. A dietary supplement, Lumiday Mood Enhancer contains Vitamins B1, 3, 5, 6,

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PatientsLikeMe Calls All Patients With Any Condition to Join

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Today, PatientsLikeMe announces its expansion in the following news release. (You can click on the image on the right to see a visualization of real-time profile views on PatientsLikeMe.) ***** CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – April 11, 2011) – Today, PatientsLikeMe (www.patientslikeme.com) announces the expansion of its platform and invites patients with any condition to join. The five-year-old

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What Other Patients Are Saying About Solupred

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Solupred is an international brand of prednisolone, a widely prescribed corticosteroid that modifies the body’s immune response and decreases inflammation. It is used to treat a host of inflammatory and autoimmune health conditions, including multiple sclerosis (acute exacerbations), organ rejection, lupus, psoriasis, asthma and ulcerative colitis. At PatientsLikeMe, where more than 120,000 patients are sharing

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One for All: Ways You Can Share, Find and Learn at PatientsLikeMe

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When patients join our site, a common question we get is, “Now that I’ve signed up, what can I do here?” One answer is that you can chart the real-world course of your disease and compare it against other patients. But that sounds a little complex, doesn’t it? If we break it down into simpler

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Rare Disease Day 2011: “Rare, But Equal”

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For patients with prevalent diseases, it may be easy to find others with your condition.  You meet them at clinics; you run into them when seeing your specialist; or you participate in one of the support groups in your area.  For those with rare diseases, the simple act of finding another patient like you isn’t

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What Does it Mean When You Have Cold Legs?

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If you’ve experienced cold legs yourself, we encourage you to share your experiences to help other patients. PatientsLikeMe’s unique data-sharing platform allows you to share detailed data about all types of treatments, interventions, and lifestyle modifications that have helped you or simply had no effectHave you suddenly realized that your legs are cold? You’re sitting

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Patient Choices: The Shape of Sharing

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In these days of Facebook and Twitter, the media is abuzz with news of “over sharing” of sensitive, personal or trivial information – everything from your current location to what you were up to over the weekend.  Members on our site may choose to share some of this, but what about some of the less

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Learn More About Your Heightened Sense of Smell

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The medical term for a heightened or increased sense of smell is hyperosmia.  Also known as olfactory hyperesthesia and hyperesthesia olfactoria, the word “hyperosmia” is a combination of the Greek work “hyper,” meaning “above,” and the Greek word “osme,” meaning “sense of smell.”  Put together, hyperosmia is an abnormally increased sensitivity to smells and odors.

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