Welcome to The Patient Experience – a new kind of patient forum

The Patient Experience is a set of discussion forums where patients connect, express their views and share valuable experiences on the subjects of medicine and healthcare. The forums are FREE and open to all.

The forums allow you to interact with other people in your situation and share information and experiences. Thus helping you on your journey through your or a loved one’s medical problems and challenges.

By sharing your story and learning from others The Patient Experience will provide a safe and place to help on the path to wellness.

The service is brought to you by The Patients Voice - a research community dedicated to healthcare and medical information. If you would like to participate in surveys and other kinds of confidential and anonymous research please click here for more information.

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Pregnancy Video Blog

Tell your story in our new research blog

Pregnancy is an incredible experience.  It can be a scary and stressful but also fulfilling and rewarding.  We are running a new video research blog to find out more about being pregnant and you attitude towards it.

In the video below Sarah a young mother tells us her experience of pregnancy, from how she felt when she was first told right through her experience of pregnancy and the joy of finally giving birth.

To see Sarah speak on her experience please click on the video below.


Sarah’s video raises a lot of very interesting points, we would like to hear your experience of these.

  • When did you notice you where pregnant? Was it planned?
  • How did you find out? What tests did you use?
  • How did you feel when you found out about your pregnancy?
  • What kind of support did you receive and from whom?
  • What was your experience the pregnancy? Was it a difficult time?
  • Did you take any medications or supplements during your pregnancy?
  • What advice would you give to a woman who has fallen pregnant for the first time?
  • Obviously these are just suggestions so please bring up anything you think other readers of the blog will find of interest. Please do include links to any site you have found helpful.

Remember, a blog is really like having a conversation with lots of people at the same time and so please check back on the blog to see what others have said so that if you would like to add to their comments you can.

To take part, all you need to do is scroll down to the comments area, type in a nickname of your choice and then put your comments into the box. We look forward to reading your comments and, of course, thank you very much for your input!

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