Exciting News for Everyone

[wanagetoverthis]

Hi everyone

I have some exciting news for you!

We have been lucky enough to be chosen as the community for Post Natal Illness on the NHS Choices website.

This means that sufferers of PNI will have a much bigger chance of reaching this site and forum, much much quicker.

This is a huge honour for the charity and is a testament to all you wonderful ladies who put your trust in us and continue to post, both for support and to support others xxx

I want to make it very clear that THIS WILL NOT AFFECT THE FORUM or our website whatsoever.

It is not the forum which will be available on NHS Choices, it is a new community that is set up and managed by www.healthunlocked.com/.
It is ONLY this community which will be linked into NHS Choices.

The new community is mainly for people to blog, ask questions, conduct polls etc and I feel it will be a great space for some of you to post your views, be it on the medical help you have / have not received. To ask others, for example, what medication they were prescribed etc.

The main benefit of us having this new community, which will sit in a completely different area of our website, is that women will have a direct route to our website and forum... from the biggest health related portal in the UK.

If you would rather not use it then please don't feel you have to. You can simply continue as you do now and use only the forum. On the other hand, if you would like to write blogs, ask questions etc then please do as your experiences, as you know, go a long way to helping others.

It is not live yet, but you can join the community and start blogging etc now if you want to Once we have 5 blogs and 5 questions, HealthUnlocked will put the community live.

pniorguk.healthunlocked.com/

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask us.

We are still a small team of sufferers and survivors and this is very much the same website it has always been, we are simply being given the opportunity to reach more sufferers so they can get the help they need - fast.

Big excited hugs!
Nat xxx

[juppster]

Have joined up today x

[wanagetoverthis]

Thanks babe

I blogged yesterday and it felt great to empty my thoughts in there, as I was just giving my opinion opposed to asking for help, be great for you guys to have a go too and / or ask questions for others. Remember the community is the first thing they ill see, so would be nice to have a mixture of users and blogs / questions

Don't forget to click on 'Polls' - the latest one is displayed first, but then click on the smaller menu 'polls' and you will find more in there.

Feel free to suggest polls too

N xxx

[Hopeful]

brilliant ;D

[Weeble]

Ok been on and signed on as weeblerabbit. Apparently weeble had already gone. Don't really understand it. Can you help

Kat

[wanagetoverthis]

Course hun.

When you sign in you'll see your profile pic then 'write a blog', 'ask a question' etc.

I blogged yesterday about my views on the stigma of PNI, I also created some polls (click 'polls' then 'polls' again on the 2nd level menu to see them all).

Polls can be anything, what meds ppl take, what help they got, main side effect... Pretty much anything you can think of that it would be nice to know what percentage of sufferers had the same thing.

Blogs can also be anything you feel like getting off your chest about PNI, you could use it like a diary if you wanted, it's just a space for you to put how you're feeling opposed to having a conversation. Then ppl can comment / you can respond etc.

Questions are just that, questions for users to ask each other, to share knowledge and get an opinion from many.

Just have a look around and see what others have posted, it's really easy once you start adding stuff, promise xxx

[Weeble]

So how come you are you but I can't be weeble?

[wanagetoverthis]

Cause the community is run by HealthUnlocked, not by Proboards or our website.

So there must already be another user called Weeble on a different HealthUnlocked community xxx

[Weeble]

Ok get it will use it too thanks
Kat