The world’s largest catalog of library resources, WorldCat, lists more than 290,000 books with “lupus” in the title. When you search “lupus” on Google Scholar, more than 2.2 million articles come up. Neither is comprehensive, so you can imagine how many other books and articles might exist. That…
Discussion
I am willing to bet a penny to your nickel (wink) that if you often “don’t look sick,” you usually don’t tell anyone when you feel the stirrings of a lupus flare. We all have different reasons for staying quiet and waiting before declaring how severe our…
Discussion
There’s a question many of us are asked every single day: “How are you doing?” Over years of navigating lupus, appointments, societal expectations, and the quiet pressure to keep up and not be a burden, I’ve learned some reflexive answers: “I’m good.” “Hanging in there.” “I can’t complain.” After…
Lupus is an autoimmune inflammatory disease that can affect multiple systems in the body.
While the cause of lupus is often unknown, it is possibly due to a combination of genetics and the environment.
Lupus affects people in different ways, and symptoms vary among patients. Symptoms come and go during periods called flares.
