lupus fact for today

[periwinkle27]

Only 10 percent of people with lupus will have a close relative who has lupus or may develop lupus, and only five percent of children born to a mother with lupus will develop the disease.

and from a few days ago - and I have this:

More than 80 percent of people with systemic lupus will experience some type of nervous system complication, ranging

Comments

[elmey]

The auto-immune diseases still seem to be very little understood even if they are a bit more manageable than they used to be. Was anyone else in your family ever diagnosed with it?

I suppose the drugs have an effect too when it comes to things like confusion and memory loss.

[periwinkle27]

My great-grandmother, my grandmother, my aunt and 7 of the 13 cousins have auto-immune diseases. Sadly, more attention is paid to MS, Rheum. Arthritis and Psioratic Arthritis than lupus

[akane42me]

Oh man. Definitely something's up in your gene pool.
I hope you're feeling okay these days.
oh... and from something you about not dying any time soon unless you're hit by a bus...

Stay away from busses!