Living with lupus is such an individual, personal experience, something I have written about frequently. I assume the same applies to many other chronic conditions as well. Yet we share many things in common, too — the chaos, fear, labs, medicines, limitations, loneliness, altered friendships, bruises, falls, loss of…
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Lupus attacked me in an entirely different way this year. How did I respond? You guessed it: I rushed to get an urgent, same-day visit with a specialist, then sprinted to the emergency room when the pain kept shifting and didn’t respond to any treatment I had at home.
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.
