Everyone has an opinion and everyone knows someone who is friends with someone that has a certain disease–and that might be true. But not everyone is the same, and the exact same health condition can affect different people in very different ways. So while that friend of a friend may suffer from lupus and have very severe flare ups, that does not mean you will go through the exact same thing that he/she is going through.
Read Kellie McRae’s column about lupus and weight loss.