| Systemic Lupus Erythematosus |
| If you get to know me, you get to know at least a little something about Lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that affects your organs and joints. I once heard it described like this, "In Lupus a person's immune system treats his or her body as if it were a cold or a virus or something else that doesn't belong there. And the immune system will keep attacking the body until it finally wins." |
| Symptoms |
| There are far too many symptoms to list them all. A few of the more common symptoms, however, include: joint pain, general not feeling well, discord rash (that usually takes the shape of a butterfly on the face), fatigue, sore throat, kidney malfuncion and susceptability to colds or infection. For a full list of symptoms, please visit the Lupus Foundations Website at www.lupus.org |
| Did you know... More people have Lupus than AIDS, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, sickle-cell anemia and cystic fibrosis COMBINED! |