Lupus-Can you Sleep With Chronic Pain

Lupus-Can you Sleep with Chronic Pain and other Rheumatologic Disorders?

Studies have shown that sleep and changes in sleep are related to various cellular, hormonal, and immunological functions. Read more

What Is Lupus and What Is It Going to Do to Me

“What is Lupus or Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?”

Those where my first words to the Doctor when they told me, I had Lupus. Or more specifically, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Still to this day I can not pronounce it properly. Perhaps, it is a mental block that I do not want to say the words.

OK, I had heard the bad news…now I wanted facts. Everything I could get my hands on. I left the doctors and headed straight for the library ( I didn’t have a computer then). Well, I read everything they had in that library, even the medical journals. I had a pretty good idea about what I was up against. That information is shared with you below.

But what I learned in the library, did not tell told me the real story, “The Real Truth About Lupus,” I didn’t learn that until I started talking to people on line about their experiences and what to really expect.

Lupus is the common name for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, which is also called SLE for short.

So, what is Lupus exactly?  Lupus is an autoimmune disease, which means that the body’s natural defense system (immune system) attacks its own tissues Read more