How does lupus make you feel?

Answer 1

Your joints and muscles can hurt in varying degrees from mild to severe. You can become fatigued very easily and there may be periods of time when you are fatigued from morning to night without doing much of anything. The disease has "flares" in which your immune system is more actively attacking your bodies own cells and tissues and during this time you may feel more pain and fatigue than during times when your disease is in "remission." Normally you are somewhere between these two extremes with a little bit of discomfort sometimes. The disease affects every single person differently since there are so many variable symptoms and degrees to which the symptoms affect each individual.

Answer 2

Imflammation of the joints, and internal organs, or skin pigmentation loss. cortocosteroirds can be prescribed to help, but there is not cure for it. it can cause death, but physicians today have it under control pretty well. prescriptions can be costly depending on you you are prescribed and if its topical or oral. stress and UV light can cause flare ups.

Answer 3

The immune system is designed to attack foreign substances in the body. If you have lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system and it attacks healthy cells and tissues. This can damage many parts of the body such as the:

• Joints
• Skin
• Kidneys
• Heart
• Lungs
• Blood vessels
• Brain.

Answer 4

No one really knows what causes lupus. Researchers think that some people may be more likely to get it due to things that are out of their control, like:

* Gender: Many more women get lupus than men; there are 10 women to every one man with lupus.

* Gstrogen: This female hormone may be a factor in lupus - almost all women who get lupus are of childbearing age.

* Race/ethnicity: Lupus occurs more often in African-American, Asian-American, Latin-American, and Native-American women than in non-Hispanic Caucasian women.

* Family history/genetics: About 10% of people with lupus have a family member with lupus.

* Major stress or infection: If people have the genetic tendency to get lupus, extreme stress or an infection may trigger the disease - but the blueprint for lupus has to already be there. One thing researchers know about lupus is that it is not contagious. You can't catch any of the three types of lupus from another person. And although lupus involves the immune system, it is not the same as other diseases that involve the immune system, like AIDS.

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Answer 5

I'm sure you've heard that everyone is different, but the best way to describe it is the feeling the day after a full body workout... The "dang, I can't lift my arms above my head, and stairs are a no-go with painfully jello legs"

Answer 6

It's like having the worst flu of your life only it lasts for weeks, months and more.