Symptoms of Systemic lupus

Answer 1

This is a difficult question to answer. No two cases of lupus are alike. It's a very... unique disease. However, there are a symptoms that commonly show up; here they are.

Fatigue and Fever - These two symptoms show up a lot, with numerous diseases. As such, it's difficult to diagnose lupus from just fatigue and fever.

Joint Pain/Swelling - Similar to fatigue and fever, this is a very common symptom. Hard to diagnose anything without more info.

Facial Rash - This is one symptom that's very exclusive to lupus. A butterfly shaped rash that covers the cheeks and the bridge of the nose.

Skin Lesions - Skin lesions also appear in cases of lupus. They usually show up, or worsen, with sun exposure.

Raynaud's Phenomenon - Raynaud's Phenomenon is where fingers and toes turn white and blue when exposed to the cold. This often freaks people out, you can probably see why, though it's actually not that dangerous.

Shortness of Breath, Chest Pain, Dry eyes, Headaches, Confusion and Memory Loss - I'm roping all of these together, because like the first few symptoms, these are hard to attribute to lupus individually.

Basically, you should see your doctor if you develop an inexplicable rash, constant fever, and persistent aching/fatigue. Also, any of the other symptoms mentioned above added onto this barrage qualifies as well.

Lupus, similar to herpes, has stages in which the disease's symptoms show up or get worse. These are called flares. After these flares, the symptoms can improve or even disappear completely.

Answer 2

symptoms vary widely from person to person and from each type of lupus. I have SLE, for lupus sympoms include:

sore (very sore) joints since i was old enough to complain about them, muscle aches, kidney pain every morning (with/out infection), recurrent uti, kidney, bladder and joint infections, seizures that seem to be related to fever as my apparently once warm, my body cant stop me getting too hot so i fit, tired, tired and more tired, photosensitive rash everywhere the sun goes (my boyfriend says i don't tan, i rash!), as odd as it sounds i get a sore face but that may be a sideeffect of something i take, tired again, SAs x3, very cold hands and colder feet and everything is very closely related to the weather... my joints and limbs are much better in the summer, but i have to avoid the sun as iv found it triggers my flare ups as bad as the snow does, my memory is terrible too and i do fall down alot, but this might be side effect too, iv always been clumsy but maybe this is why. luckily, i think that's it!

Answer 3

Although lupus affects everyone differently, the most common symptoms are fatigue, joint pain, fever, skin rashes including a "butterfly rash" across the face.

Answer 4

joint pain

profound fatigue

fevers