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Living with Lupus: Chemotherapy as a Treatment

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…

Possible Symptoms That Could Point to Lupus

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 …

6 Celebrities Living with Lupus

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…

Toni Braxton and Lupus: The Toughest Part of Living with It

“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…

Immune Responses During Your Lupus Flares

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…

How Does Lupus Affect Pregnancy?

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…

6 Home Exercises You Can Do with Lupus

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…

Yoga for Lupus: How Exercise Can Help

Lupus is a serious, chronic autoimmune disease that debilitates your body. Fatigue, fever, skin rashes, and joint pains are just a few in a wide range of common symptoms. After being diagnosed and while learning to deal with all the symptoms and lupus flares, sometimes it’s hard to maintain…

Faces of Lupus: Meet Them, Know Them, Share Them

Lupus can affect anyone. You, me, your sister, your neighbor, your college roommate, anyone around you. Even though women are mostly affected by it, no one is safe from this disease that attacks you from the inside and which still remains a mystery on so many levels.

6 Lupus Symptoms You May Not Know About

Besides being an autoimmune disease which attacks those who suffer from it from the inside, lupus is also characterized by its enormous range of symptoms, which often makes it extremely difficult to diagnose. This multitude of symptoms includes fever, joint pain, rashes, hair loss and many, many…