SLE stands for systemic lupus erythematosus. This is a chronic condition, which means that after being diagnosed, patients will live with it for the rest of their lives. But there are a lot more things about lupus you should know about, such as its symptoms. What…
Being a disease that affects people by attacking the immune system, lupus can affect any part of the body, including the kidneys. Once lupus attacks your kidneys, it means you have a type of lupus called lupus nephritis. Find out…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWTpdQYeNA Being diagnosed with a disease that you know nothing about is never easy, let alone a disease which sometimes shows no external symptoms and signs. Lupus can be an invisible illness; it can affect any organ of the body and it can be very difficult to diagnose. This…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npl70colVq4 For patients who have recently been diagnosed with lupus, understanding the disease can be difficult. Sometimes they need someone to relate to who understands what lupus is, knows what kind of treatments are out there, and who can offer tips about how they control lupus flares and…
Diagnosing lupus can be extremely difficult because the range of symptoms is so vast that many are common to other diseases. Because diagnosing the autoimmune disease is tricky, doctors consider the condition when several of the most common symptoms exist. Here are 13 common symptoms of lupus. In this  2014 YouTube clip …
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that develops for no known specific reason. Instead of the immune system protecting a person with lupus, it turns on the patient. Any one can get the disease —  any age, gender or race. Young adult women are most at risk. With that said, we can…
“Some days I can’t balance it [family life and lupus] at all, I just have to lay in bed“. That’s just one the several difficult things about living with lupus Toni Braxton describes. A pop, R&B and soul star, the American singer was diagnosed with lupus in 2014, and since then…
https://youtu.be/tqatW7xFUNU Being a systemic inflammatory disorder, lupus commonly presents a multitude of symptoms. It’s a very individual disease as it can affect people in a multitude of ways, which results in different treatment options for different people. Interested in knowing what the symptoms of lupus are? Read more…
Lupus is a serious, chronic autoimmune disease that debilitates your body. Fatigue, fever, skin rashes, and joint pains are just a few of the extended range of lupus’s most common symptoms. After being diagnosed with this disease and having to deal with all these symptoms and…
Lupus is a serious, chronic autoimmune disease that debilitates your body. Fatigue, fever, skin rashes, and joint pains are just a few of the extended range of lupus’s most common symptoms. After being diagnosed with this disease and having to deal with all these symptoms and…