New Medical Website Let's Members 'Share What They Know'

How many times have you said, “I wish I knew that before I…” and finish the sentence how you want?

And how often have you said that when referring to health and medical issues?

A new online community hopes to help with those questions.

ShareWIK – “Share What I Know,” is an online community with thousands of members who tell their personal health and wellness stories that are vetted by a team of doctors. It’s been described as Facebook meets WebMd.

Based in Atlanta, the company’s online community, co-founded by a former reporter, has been growing by leaps and bounds -- but Diana Keough developed the idea for ShareWIK out of a painful past – one that she is only now just beginning to share.

Diana said she survived a harsh childhood that many cannot imagine. She said she had an emotionally and physically abusive mother, and a father who not only headed the local Republican committee and preached on the side, but also was later found to be living a double life – one in which he contracted AIDS and gave the untreatable disease to Diana’s mother.

The idea for ShareWIK became a way for Diana to begin to heal, and saw it as a way for people to share the good, the bad and the ugly sides of life in order to help others.

What’s most interesting about ShareWIK – and different from WebMD – is the site approaches even the most uncomfortable issues with a bit of humor – and it’s working, according to Diana. Videos from three different topics - depression, female incontinence and female facial hair – have each surpassed the 2.5 million impressions mark.

Diana said if she can live through her childhood and grow up to be a happily married working mother with four children, maybe the online community can truly help others to do the same. At least that is her hope.

LINK: www.ShareWIK.com