This group is dedicated to providing support for people, their families and friends, who live with hidradenitis suppurativa. We (this group) have been here for several years, most recently under the HIDE name, which we are no longer directly affiliated with. We have a new group name but our mission to provide support has not changed.

We will continue to restrict membership to those persons concerned with our shared disease and for that reason we respectfully ask that anyone wishing to join submit a brief explanation. We look forward to meeting you!

The 'rules' here are simple. Smile, reach out and be kind to your HS family when you're having a good day. Vent, rant and rave and let us know when you aren't. Ask for help or advice when you need it without shame or embarrassment. Share, when you can, anything you come across that might help someone else. Disagreements happen but those that step over the line of being publicly uncivil, causing unnecessary stress to this group, WILL continue elsewhere in private.

ADVERTISEMENT WARNING: This group strongly opposes the ads Yahoo has recently started including in some of our correspondence concerning a product that claims to cure Hidradenitis. Evidence is growing that this product, Colloidal Silver, is NOT a safe substance to ingest and there is absolutely NO credible evidence to back up the claim that it will cure HS. Or even help it, according to the numerous HS sufferers we know who have tried it over the years. We are dismayed that our host (Yahoo) is allowing this false and potentially dangerous ad to appear in our group postings and feel it is our moral obligation to post this warning.

This group belongs to its members. Your moderator is Becky Hume and you can contact her at zookeeper101@comcast.net