I Hate Dialysis Message Board

Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Bajanne on March 22, 2006, 05:13:27 PM

Title: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Bajanne on March 22, 2006, 05:13:27 PM
I was just wondering how you guys found this board.  I was trying to find all I could about dialysis, and went on a board at nephron.com.  Some guy with a weird name Epoman had a post about a board named 'ihatedialysis.com', where he said you would get straight up answers and be able to vent without being censored.
I have not regretted one moment finding this website, as I see it as one of my major tools in dealing with this 'challenge'.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Sara on March 22, 2006, 05:54:18 PM
I think I typed in "dialysis support" in Google, but I can't remember for sure.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: kitkatz on March 22, 2006, 08:48:38 PM
I was floating through the internet and ended up finding the site accidently.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Rerun on March 22, 2006, 09:47:36 PM
My favorate search engine is Dogpile.com and I typed in "People who hate dialysis" and I found my home!   8)
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: babi68 on March 23, 2006, 12:08:55 AM
I just typed into google -hate dialysis- and here I am ;D Liz
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Bear on March 23, 2006, 03:59:17 PM
I was pointed to the KPG Bulletin Board by the senior nurse at the Home Haemo unit.
Then saw a refernce  to this one. So use both about =ly.
Went out down to "Sufferers' Parasites" to meet some Welsh friends up from Sydney
for a  conference @ Holiday Inn. Looking around for them in the foyer & got a call
from the bar up on the balcony....2 good flights of stairs to get to it & I bounded
up em 2 @ a time!!! My God, I thought, you wouldn't be able to pick me from a
'normal human' !  :o ;D  ....I couldn't have done it a year ago!  :)
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Epoman on March 23, 2006, 04:14:19 PM
I was pointed to the KPG Bulletin Board by the senior nurse at the Home Haemo unit.
Then saw a refernce to this one. So use both about =ly.
Went out down to "Sufferers' Parasites" to meet some Welsh friends up from Sydney
for a  conference @ Holiday Inn. Looking around for them in the foyer & got a call
from the bar up on the balcony....2 good flights of stairs to get to it & I bounded
up em 2 @ a time!!! My God, I thought, you wouldn't be able to pick me from a
'normal human' !  :o ;D  ....I couldn't have done it a year ago!  :)


Bear I noticed you have not replied to this thread: http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=411.0 which is evident by your post here. Please read and reply now to that thread and start having more pride in your posts. I hope you understand why I am doing this.

- Epoman
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Bear on March 23, 2006, 06:19:02 PM
I did...but I just got timed out &
 ( O.K.   _and_   )
 lost it. 
Maybe l8r...oops make that later   
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: okarol on June 18, 2007, 06:17:47 PM
Searched in Yahoo for "dailysis support" - thought it was a joke because of the name so didn't look at the site for awhile. Got curious.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: keefer51 on June 19, 2007, 07:41:06 PM
A very dear friend who lives in Arizona called one night all excited about a article she found in, are you ready for this? The National Enquirer!! It was about someone who got a kidney transplant on a site called www.matchingdonor.com. From there i was hooked up to this wonderful site!
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: st789 on June 19, 2007, 08:11:40 PM
Through search engine of google about dialysis and kidney transplant.

But I believe the Force of all the members here guide me here.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: thegrammalady on June 20, 2007, 01:58:15 PM
i was reading posts on another board (don't ask which one couldn't remember if my life depended on it) anyway one of the posts was from someone who posts here and the web site was listed in their signature line. being the very nosy person that i am i came looking. haven't been back to that other site since.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Meinuk on June 22, 2007, 12:32:28 PM
I was googling Dialysis, stumbled accross the T-shirts, LOVED THEM! (miss you EPOMAN) and then found the boards....
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Ang on June 22, 2007, 08:02:29 PM
can't  recall  for  sure,loving  the  ARCADE,  so  aint  goin  anywhere  into  much of  a  hurry :clap; :2thumbsup; :yahoo; :bandance;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: okarol on May 07, 2008, 06:46:11 PM
 :bump;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Romona on May 07, 2008, 06:56:35 PM
I think Sluff and Okarol referenced it on a NKF message board. I wanted to talk to people and couldn't get on that board so here I am.  :yahoo;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: KT0930 on May 07, 2008, 08:21:48 PM
I was trying to find a local face-to-face group, so googled for dialysis support in Atlanta. I never did find a local group...oh well, you guys are better!
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: flip on May 07, 2008, 09:01:29 PM
Actually Okarol posted the link on another kidney site. Thanks, dear.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: jbeany on May 07, 2008, 10:25:57 PM
I was serching for more info on NxStage, found Epo's site about his and followed the link from there to here.  That was almost two years ago - now I'm home with my own NxStage, and here all the time!
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: alrightstill on May 07, 2008, 10:31:55 PM
I think I did a google search too and found it.

A few years back I did a search for dialsyis and came across a few yahoo groups.  One you had to send in personal information to join (no offense - but no thanks) and another I actually did join, but was highly criticized for still having a permacath so I was completely turned off from any online discussion groups about dialysis.

Something told me a few months later to try one more time and I did another search and came across this site..... and wasnt judged!!  :)   :cuddle;  So glad I found this place and I have learned sooo much!    :clap;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: KidneyBoGo on May 08, 2008, 12:37:05 AM
I believe I typed in "living with dialysis" on Yahoo search.  And  since I'm not looking forward to dialysis and I just hate the thought of it, I just had to check it out. What a pleasant surprise it was!  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: celtic warrior on May 08, 2008, 01:14:21 AM
I found this board whilst looking for all the information I could get on ESRF. And from what I have read, THIS is the best place to come.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: monrein on May 08, 2008, 07:46:23 AM
When I was told that my long lived transplant was now failing, I came home upset and did a Google search of...."i hate dialysis" since that was how I felt.  Lo and behold, so did all these fine people here.  There was no internet the first time around for me and this is a great spot to retreat to.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: oleboy on May 08, 2008, 08:44:55 AM
When my doctor told me I would be looking at dialysis within 6-8 months, and having to be off work because of those nasty symptoms we are so familiar with I started surfing and using every search engines I could looking for answers to my questions and I found IHD.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: rose1999 on May 08, 2008, 09:45:02 AM
I've genuinely no recollection - just a random search for something about dialysis for Dad I suppose - and serendipity took over  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: paddbear0000 on May 08, 2008, 01:27:13 PM
I'm with Rose. I don't remember either.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Ang on May 08, 2008, 07:31:22 PM
no  recollection  really,  but  am  i   glad  i found  it. :yahoo; :yahoo; :yahoo;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: E.T. on May 08, 2008, 08:29:15 PM
Googled 'Dialysis', looked around a bit. I bet this site is nearer the top of the results than it was then...
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: paddbear0000 on May 08, 2008, 08:40:27 PM
Googled 'Dialysis', looked around a bit. I bet this site is nearer the top of the results than it was then...

#19 of the main listings. I didn't include the sub-listings. Wo-hoo!  :yahoo; :yahoo; :yahoo;

If you set your preferences to view 100 listings per page, it's on the very first page!  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: cambonesegirl on May 08, 2008, 10:03:58 PM
On a myspace group. I like this way better!
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: kevno on May 08, 2008, 10:48:13 PM
Epoman had the same post a long time ago now. same answer ;D

issed(P) off one day with dialysis, had a bad day crashed my BP, sick. So just typed in google IHATEDIALYSIS and the site pop UP! :bandance;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Gramapat on May 08, 2008, 11:09:21 PM
I was looking for a message board right after I started dialysis so Googled "dialysis message boards" and this was the first site Google brought up.  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: mysty on May 09, 2008, 03:11:11 AM
No search engines here.. Keith told me about the site.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: mikey07840 on May 09, 2008, 06:36:44 AM
I googled dialysis support groups.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: annabanana on May 09, 2008, 06:46:42 AM
I joined a listserv for live donors to get info about me donating to my husband. okarol is on that listserv and she directed me here. THANK YOU, okarol!!!
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Psim on May 09, 2008, 09:10:35 AM
I was having a hard time with new symptoms and getting fed up with the saccharine-sweet Kidney Foundation site, googled kidney support and knew when I saw the title that I had found The Place.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: ODAT on May 09, 2008, 10:44:21 AM
I was trying to find 'real' information on what to expect with dialysis. Found this site through google searches.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: paddbear0000 on May 09, 2008, 11:27:53 AM
Thanks ODAT! Now I remember why I found this site. I too was trying to find some real experiences of dialysis patients.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Cincygrandma on May 10, 2008, 07:19:21 PM
Just random searching to try to learn as much about dialysis as possible.  Believe I was looking for "dialysis forums".  Thank goodness I found IHD.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: David13 on May 12, 2008, 04:49:41 PM
I did a Google search on kidney-related sites and found this message board.  I was immediately impressed by the "staight talk" by people actually experiencing these issues and their willingness to share with others.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: Stacy Without An E on May 12, 2008, 05:38:53 PM
Someone commented on my blog that I should really check out this site.  I've been member and a fan ever since.
Title: Re: How did you find out about this message board?
Post by: UNIBALLER on May 12, 2008, 06:56:35 PM
I found it while searching for info on dialysis cruises and have been hooked since I read the name and seen the t-shirts