Stories

I have had lupus since I was two years old. I am 62 now. When I was younger I used herbs and essential oils. Now, the older I get, the...

I had a raised red lesion on my cheek right next to my nose and wanted to have it zapped with liquid nitrogen, as I have had other sunspots zapped...

I've had lupus since 1989. I lost a baby in 1990, because of it. It is a hard journey. Some days are good, and some are bad. There is one...

As I start my 3rd year with Lupus and RA, I have been looking back at all that I have learned and still need to learn. Not only the dietary...

Throughout my 12 years of seeking adequate answers for symptoms that feel endless and relentless, finding answers have usually left me with more questions. It is widely known that racial...

Heading into the beginning of 2025 has been a rough time for balancing Lupus and RA 🥴 thankfully, my annual blood tests revealed that the medications and diet adjustments are...

New Year's Eve 2024 was intentional. My bestie and I wanted to ensure joy colored our 365 days in the new year. We wrote affirmations, decorated happy jars, and ordered...

When I was first diagnosed, it wasn’t the first time I heard about lupus. It runs in my family. I was hurting all over, got blood work done (a lot...

My story started two years ago. My mother has always said I have Lupus because of the Butterfly rash across my cheeks and nose. I'm almost always fatigued and was...

Hi, my names Nicole. I’m 31 and I live in Southern California. My autoimmune journey began in spring 2022 and I instantly knew something was wrong. Everything about this was...

I have SLE Lupus, Sjogens disease, Raynard's disease, and the doctors are not sure if I had a mini-stroke. I spray nitroglycerin under my tongue when my heart rate increases...

I was diagnosed with lupus when I was 11 years old, even before the diagnosis, I suffered from disease symptoms for almost a year. Throughout that year, I was terribly...

Diagnosed Oct '96.. with DVT AND SLE w/anticardiolipin syndrome. I Lost my 1st child @ 5 months and my 2nd son @ 5 months had to lie on the couch...

I was diagnosed with my 1st autoimmune condition as a teen with scalp seborrhea, which the doctor attributed to my adopted mother making me nervous. I married at 21 to...

I was dx'd with RA in 1966 & Lupus in 1989. Between then & now, there wasn't much of a difference between symptoms. I never have been able to tell...

I feel this way every day, but today for some reason, I feel worse. I think I can literally feel myself dying. I had a positive ANA a couple of...

I am a 32-year working female from India, and this is my Lupus Story - Everything was going normal until one day every joint in my body started aching like...

I am 73. I c/o pain in my lower legs to my primary care physician who did testing for a whole battery of autoimmune diseases. My dsdna came back positive...

I am a 75 year old woman who has spent a lifetime trying to recover from the different diagnoses I’ve received over the years from doctors. For many years I...

Diagnosed in my early twenties, Lupus has been a large part of my life for many years, but I feel that I had been suffering from Lupus symptoms for many...