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How Lupus Has Affected Me and My Daughter

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By AnnetteWhatley

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My daughter was diagnosed at age 15! She is now 30 years old!

My daughter's pain

She would just lay on the floor and cry! As a mother, it would crush me that I couldn't take her pain away!

Now, I have been diagnosed with lupus at the age of 54! I've had the symptoms for many years, but was just diagnosed this year!

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Describing symptoms

Lupus is a different kind of pain that is really hard to put into words! You can tell every weather change and the energy is just sucked out of your body!

Understanding lupus

I never understood what my daughter was going through! I feel really bad that I couldn't understand her pain! Sometimes I didn't give her the attention she needed and deserved! Neither of us look sick, so people don't understand!

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