I had been using another "major" health forum for years but the owners/admins/mods had become so zealous and strict that even "attempting to contact" another member could get you banned. Even words like "darn" and common medical terms were against the rules and a lot of people were becoming upset and leaving over this and so one day I decided to leave and discovered this place (after a long search under "health forums").

Then I did a restore of my hard drive and lost the URL for a long time but finally found it again. I came back here from time to time after that but mostly lurked. I did'nt know anyone here and was'nt ready to open up just yet. It was'nt until I had several MAJOR panic attacks and found out that I could'nt log into the other health site (they were always having problems, warning, banning, deleting posts, etc) that I finally had had enough and decided to devote all my time here and I hav'nt looked back since:-)

The other forum, you'd be luck to get a reply (if you got any at all) in a week and this forum I often get 3-4 replies in an hour (depending on the topic of course). That was another "plus" for me (the fact that this dforum is very active (lots of caring people, chat, help-line, PM's, etc).

- Glad to share!