Welcome to Our New Members!

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Hello to all the new people. I'm sorry that your pain has made it

necessary for you to seek out support, but I'm glad you found our

group!

Please feel free to discuss the problems you are having due to your

pain. If you have questions, you're likely to find help from our

membership. Most of us long timers, have been there and done that.

:-)

If you have specific questions about medications, please try

Google.com first. Most of the time, you will find exactly the answers

you are looking for. Another place to look is through the messages

that are already on our web site. Often a medication has been

discussed several times and there are some good answers already posted

about it. Just type the name of the medication into the message

search box and Yahoo will show all posts relating to the subject. If

you don't find an answer with either of those methods, then please

post to the group and we'll help you all we can.

Occasionally, during conversations, people will try to post their

street addresses or phone number to the group. As moderators, we try

to catch that mistake, but aren't always successful. There are over

1100 members on this group and while 99% of us are trustworthy, there

will always be a couple of bad apples in the bunch. They could take

illegal advantage of having that information about you.

If you become friendly with someone, please post your one on one chats

privately to each other. Once you're comfortable with someone - one

on one - then you can privately share information such as phone

numbers.

We do not allow doctors' names to be posted to the list. This is to

protect their privacy. You can mention hospitals or large clinics,

but please don't post the names of small one or two doctor clinics.

That's basically the same as posting their names.

Again welcome. I'm sure you'll make friends here and find this a good

setting for venting and helping. Your family members or certain

friends may not understand what you're going through. They may think

your medications are unnecessary or dangerous, etc. Most of us have

or are taking medications of one sort or another, so this is a great

place to discuss those things.

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Lyndi

Moderator