Lupus!!!

Hi all,

I'm hoping some one can help me on this one.

After years of having lots of really odd seemingly unconnected health problems I was referred to a rheumatologist on the grounds of worsening Raynaud's syndrome.

I saw the specialist on saturday morning and she seems to think I have Lupus and is sending me for a whole barrage of blood tests.

Does any one here suffer with Lupus or have relatives with lupus? Any advice is very welcome. This quite worrying to me. The specialist also wants my mum to get tested as she came with me, and the Dr found our skin pigments quite interesting.

I heard this mentioned on the DR House series once.

http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=248

Originally posted by Bicnarok
I heard this mentioned on the DR House series once.

If by 'once' mean on every single episode? Yeah, I think I heard it once too.

It's Lupus

Originally posted by Lara
advice

triple the quantity of fruit and greens you eat. double the variety

It's never lupus.

Doesn't/Didn't Seal have Lupus? Hence the scars on his face?

Do you turn into a Wolf?

I don't know much about it but my Grandma on my Dad's side has it and she's fine! As long as you get treatment for it it shouldn't be a major deal.

I have a friend that has this friend with Lupus, she just referred she feels tired all the time and has to be under treatment for the rest of her life... that's the only info I got on this ❌

Wish you the best with all my heart Lara!!

Originally posted by The Grey Fox
It's never lupus.

Originally posted by Lara
Hi all,

I'm hoping some one can help me on this one.

After years of having lots of really odd seemingly unconnected health problems I was referred to a rheumatologist on the grounds of worsening Raynaud's syndrome.

I saw the specialist on saturday morning and she seems to think I have Lupus and is sending me for a whole barrage of blood tests.

Does any one here suffer with Lupus or have relatives with lupus? Any advice is very welcome. This quite worrying to me. The specialist also wants my mum to get tested as she came with me, and the Dr found our skin pigments quite interesting.

Will I get furry's disease if I rape you? Oh yeah, could sure go for sum rapin' right about now. raperaperape

😂 yeah I know Lupus seems to be House's favourite differencial 😂

Thanks Paola, I am tired all the time some days its worse than others even after I've had a really good nights sleep and plenty of rest.

Wolf!!! I bloody well hope not 😂

No as far as I know Lupus in not contagious or infecious, UKR. Also why would you want to rape some one when you dont know what they look like? 😂

Kelly Bean, once its being treated its not too much of a problem from what I was told by the specialist but I know is can also be quite nasty if it gets out of control. I hope its not Lupus though. I could do with out having to take medication for the rest of my life, not to mention the cost of it all 😖

I just wanted to know that it is manageable and that it dosent majorly impact your liftstyle if you do have it.

Got to have the blood tests on thursday and then I'm up for review in three months back at the hospital. Fun Fun Fun! 😐

Originally posted by Forum Ninja
Do you turn into a Wolf?

That's Lupin. 😐

😂

Originally posted by Red Nemesis
http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=248

If by 'once' mean on every single episode? Yeah, I think I heard it once too.

Didn´t watch it that often🙂 😆

would it help to look at webmd to see what lupus entails?

or would that make you all "paranoid" and *checking symptoms against self and saying that you have every one of them and freaking you out more than ever*?

Or - I was in the same sort of situation [seemingly unrelated symptoms that were being treated but not getting down to the real problem]. Just be really firm with your doctor. If you say you want a test, you will, ultimately, get the test.

no they are doing the test, they told me to have the tests I didnt ask for them. Its all well and good looking at the prognosis in detail but it doesnt tell you what its like to live with lupus, what its like having a flare, blah blah blah.

I'm not one of these people that listens to other people's problems and goes "OMG!!! I have that too!!!! May be I have such and such..whatever".
I take my health quite seriously and alot of my health issues I've had for a long time, they arent new and they havent all afflicted me at the same time.

The thing that bothers me most is that they want my mum to get tested too. At home its just me, my mum and my brother. Coping is a really issue as my brother is physically disabled.

I hope I dont have Lupus. I dont want to be on meds for the rest of my life! I dont like being ill! I have to work god damnit 😂

Originally posted by dadudemon
That's Lupin. 😐

Too bad a Lupin is a flower. Canis lupus is the latin term for a Wolf. It was a satire.

So, I should really be the one to do this: 😐

I thought it was the wolf-disease too 😖 What is it exactly? For some weird reason the three sites I tried to open about lupus don't seem to work.