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There are various sites on the internet for real time or bulletin board format chatting that
can provide information and emotional support. Try checking out some of the places listed below, but once again remember to consult with
your doctor on information that you find.
For a daily update of "live question and answer chat sessions" with doctors or health professionals visit Weekday Chat Schedule for a listing of weekly scheduled live moderated discussion sessions.
Every Tuesday from 9:00pm EST to 10:00pm EST
atPsych Central you can chat with online psychologist John Grohol,
Psy.D.
To find out about IRC and how to use it visit the
IRC Page.
You can use mIRC to access IRC. If you are interested in
information about mIRC and how to download it, go to the
Official mIRC Homepage. Also visit Liszt which now provides an IRC Chat Directory to search for IRC Chat Channels.
Listed below are additional medical chat sites:
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The TRC Brain Tumor Chat
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This chat meets 7 days a week at 8:00 PM Eastern. There is also a email discussion list for those dealing with a brain
tumor, to sign up go to Fight For Life.
- Better Health Support Chats and Message Boards
- Around 200 different message boards covering a wide range of health related topics. Also visit their Health Chat Rooms which includes scheduled support chats about Fibromyalgia & Rheumatoid Arthritis among others.
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Adult ADD/ADH
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There are two scheduled chats each week: Mondays and Thursdays at 9 pm EST. You need ICQ to participate in these chats. To
download the free software visit their site ICQ.
- Women's Health Forum
- Includes a bulletin board forum and scheduled live chats about issues surrounding women's health.
- Parent Soup Chat Schedule
- A schedule of various weekly chats.
- A Comprehensive List of Diabetes Chat Rooms on IRC and The Internet
- Web based and IRC based chats.
- Ask the Diabetes Team
- A forum for asking questions about children with diabetes.
- Arthritis Chat Room
- An arthritis chat room that is open 24 hours a day and has a weekly scheduled chat usually on Tuesdays at 8 pm eastern time.
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Asthma Chat
- The Asthma Chat Room is always open and has scheduled asthma chats on Tuesdays at 9 pm eastern time.
- The Leaning Tree Chat Room
- The Leaning Tree Chat Room is available 24 hours a day for any chats related to Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Gulf War Illness & Related Disorders. Check the Chat Schedule for the times for scheduled chats.
- Death and Dying Chat Room
- Go to the Death and Dying Chat Room to discuss issues in grief and care of the terminally ill. The chat room is always open for use 24 hours a day and has regular scheduled chats.
- MGH Neurology Chat Rooms
- Massachusetts General Hospital provides chat rooms about neurology related topics and they "periodically have an MGH Neurologist host a chat session on a particular neurological topic". There are Epilepsy, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimers Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy), and Tourette Syndrome Chat Rooms among many others. There is also a link to their "Neurology Web Forums".
- MedSupport
- You need to click "I accept" and then the next page has information and links to chats. There is a moderated chat nightly at 8 pm EST in the main chat room. And there is Fibromyalgia Discussion Group Chat every from Wednesday 8-10 PM EST.
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Melissa's Diabetes Chat
- There are on-line meetings every second
Wednesday at 10:00 PM EST. You can join the chat or just listen.
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Lupus Chat
- Scheduled chats Monday through Sunday.
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Chronic Pain
- Has information about a Chronic Pain Community Chat Room and a mailing list for people with chronic pain.
- Convomania
- A place for seriously ill and disabled kids on the Internet which includes chat rooms and message boards.
- Fibromyalgia Discussion Bulletin Board
- Also includes links to information on fibromyalgia.
- Sids-Network
- Has scheduled chats on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
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Support-Group.com
- This site has support groups for various areas and "allows people with health, personal, and relationship issues to come together and share their experiences through IRC chat and Bulletin Boards".
- Health Answers BBS
- Has bulletin board discussion groups on a variety of
diseases and topics.
- Excite Talk
- The search engine "excite" has health topic bulletin board discussions where you can post and read about a particular topic or start a new one.
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Mental Health Discussion Forums
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Obsessive-Compulsive Bulletin Board.
- Chronic Illness, Disability, and Condition Support
- A website "designed to help connect others to people that can provide support".
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scleroderma
- This site includes schedules discussions and guests.
- Lupus Channel
Home Page
- A site that has information about IRC channel #lupus on the undernet.
- #MSfriends
- This site is "for MS and chronic disease patients to find fun and support online, on the Undernet, twenty four hours a day".
- Talk City
- A chat community that includes several specific medical chats. You can chat at Talk City by using EZTalk which requires you to use a Java capable browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape Navigator 3.0.
Click below for a list of Cancer Chats
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