CP members,increasing concern

I have noticed lately a large number of new member posts or even regular members posts falling to the bottom of the page with no response or just a mod response to it.

This concerns me because HW is a support community and even though we all have issues living in pain we have always took time and effort to welcome new members and send healing thoughts or wishing others a better day.

I'm seeing far too many post's getting nothing and one too many out of forum mods having to come in and reply to a new user so their post doesn't fall off the page from lack of activity! This has never been the "climate " in the chronic pain forum in the years I have been here.

It's Ok to vent, rant, occasionally use Off topic threads, and if you don't want to check in on Mondays check-in thread that's your prerogative, we would love for everyone to take that opportunity though. If me or Susie are spending the time and effort to put it up seeing you guys use it would be great!

I realize it's easy to let your world become overwhelmingly about your own issues but in the spirit of Peters hopes for a forum of this kind taking time out of your own personal trial's and supporting, caring and sharing is part of Healing Well.

It's only going to work if you give back and not just take. It requires only a few seconds to say Hi and welcome. If you have nothing else you can add to a thread it's ok to say Hi and sorry your having problems and leave it at that.

Your word's can change someone's day or hour. It's not welcoming in the least to a new member who posts, see's a vent thread get 10-20 replies, see's dozens of views on their post and dozens of members online and they've only drew the total sum of a out of forum mod? Really disheartening for me.

Susie has been busy with her brothers accident and recovery and the other mods for CP are sporadic and get here when they can so I'm whose here daily until Susie gets back and WB gets through his pump trial's and travel. I cannot be here 24/7 although I don't sleep a lot, and rely on you regular members to say hi and welcome and thats not what I'm seeing and it concerns me and saddens me that CP, a forum that's one of or use to be one of the biggest and best here is lagging because we are not the warm and welcoming place we use to be?

Please make a conscious effort to at least welcome new members.

Thanks to you all.

I'm sorry that I'm guilty of what you're talking about. I'm sorry that I've been reading and not responding. I'll try to do better in the future.

love and hugs
Loretta

Just to play devil's advocate a bit some of the posts that get no response is because there either seems to not require or want one or because there is nothing anyone can say about it.

I want to thank you all for reading. I know it's difficult some days, believe me when I say there's days I won't respond a lot because I fear what might come out of my mouth!! Lol

Loretta, your one of those folks we miss seeing around here. How are you?

Jim we seem to have a run on users at time's that ask the questions but don't really want to hear the answers we have. Those usually dont stick around long when they realize we're not changing what we give in the way advice because most of us have been at this long enough to know when something works and when it doesn't!

Josh, also have noticed your absence and sometimes we just need different things and talking is not one of them!! I actually lurked for years here before participating regularly,it was that part of my life that I was still trying to come to terms with this was the best I was going to get and my losses could make me better or hold me down. HW and members who many are nolonger here, taught me that although my losses, my pain, my battle was many and difficult, someone else's was greater! They showed me I still had many things to be thankful for and sharing that could somehow make others hopeful!

Hope, my greatest motivation! The word evokes emotion does it not? Hope that each new day brings medical breakthrough, better meds, new procedures&treatment, hope that one day CP will join the lists of treatable diseases and disorders, hope that someday this forum will not have to exist!

Im an avid reader of JD Robbie(Nora Roberts) and have been reading Eve Dallas series for 20 plus years! In a future setting around the year 2065. Remember when I started it was 1990 something? So many things she included in her futuristic novels over 20 years ago have actually come to pass, been created, it's strange now. The one thing she's always written about and created was no pain for anyone ever due to "blockers " a pill that blocks all pain? It's an awesome thought isn't it? So were cars that drove themselves when she started this series all those many many years ago yet my daughter has a car that talks to her, answers her iPhone, directs her to wherever shes going, tells her when a car is in her blindspot, stops backing up if something is back there, and yes hands off the wheel, the car parks itself and maneuvers skids on without the aid of a driver!

So Im holding out hope that the few things she wrote about decades ago that have come to pass will one day include that "pain blocker "!

Everyone have a wonderful, peaceful, low pain day and thank you for being the awesome folks you are.

you got my attention Vickie and you are right on multiple levels. it seems our "issues" as of late which are real have almost divided or better we have forgot that any one or two of us have no power to help change anything to a more positive reality and quality of life. together we can. if it's Fed Gov, drop in standard of care or whatever, if we can gather one one accord in numbers,(and we have big number now), we can influence the barriers set in our way no matter who or what is seeming to shake us up a little or in most cases a lot. very timely and dire wake up call. you have a great deal of compassion for this unction to calm us and get us as one big voice. i am in. NICK

Hi all,
I am a chronic pain patient and have looked and lurked around. However, some other online forums have not been so welcoming as this so have been reluctant to post. It is really interesting to understand the dynamics of these communities.

Anyway, hi all! I am struggling with a severe joint issue and trying to figure out how to live with it. My pain doc seems to want to jump from a low dose narcotic to a pain pump with no stops in between so i am stunned and blown away.

I want to say that I come online sometimes and see this site and although I want to offer advice or whatever, I feel that Im not the right person to say anything because I really dont have clue about mostof the stuff CPer's are suffering from.

I have not surgery on my back so no help there. Like I really dont have good advice but I do like to offer empathy when I can. I love the advice the others give here. Like you said, theres soooo much realistic, real life advice given from the most knowlegdable people here.

So, I will take your post here as an Ok" to be on and offer encouragement or support minus the expert advice. ;) Thank you for posting this and I will be around a Lot more often.

Thank you so much^^ Susie!