Exercising and keeping fit is encouraged for everyone, but especially for people with lupus and other chronic disease like it. Regular exercise has been shown to help lupus patients, and keep stress levels low and improve sleep. Here are nine ways to motivate yourself to get out there and start…
Lupus is a serious chronic autoimmune disease that debilitates your body. Dealing with the diagnosis and learning how to live with the symptoms and flares, then picking yourself up and trying to maintain a regular life routine can leave you feeling quite fatigued. Here are 10…
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 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…
How often should you exercise when you have lupus? Research has shown that lupus patients are strong believers in the benefits of exercise, but may not exercise enough over concerns of fatigue, overexposure to sunlight, and injury — legitimate concerns but ones less important than countering the disease’s impact on…
In a recent study entitled “Healthy lifestyle habits for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: A systemic review,” researchers identified how the lifestyle habits of systemic lupus erythematosus patients impact disease pathogenesis. The study was published in the Seminars in Arthritis & Rheumatism journal. Researchers performed a systematic literature…