LIVING WITH LUPUS | Sunita M.

LIVING WITH LUPUS | Sunita M.

“I have lupus but lupus does not have me” – the phrase I adopted after my deep depression three years after my lupus diagnosis in 2010. I was 25.⁣ Two years before that, while in nursing school in Florida, I was in and out of the hospital for migraines, low iron...
LIVING WITH LUPUS | Jamie & Victoria T.

LIVING WITH LUPUS | Jamie & Victoria T.

Greetings everyone, a new year begins! As a teacher for over thirty years, I’ve given countless lessons to my students. But none compares to the one I’ve learned from my brave daughter Victoria who was diagnosed with lupus in 2021. When we know better, we do better. I...
LIVING WITH LUPUS | Elizabeth Bullerpage

LIVING WITH LUPUS | Elizabeth Bullerpage

Greetings everyone, a new year begins! I am glad to have the opportunity to share my lupus journey. I was diagnosed 30 years ago. Prior to this diagnosis, I had many difficult and mysterious symptoms. As I have read and heard from others with lupus, this is not an...
LIVING WITH LUPUS | Shelley N.

LIVING WITH LUPUS | Shelley N.

One week before the pandemic began in 2020, I was diagnosed with lupus. The story started when I woke up one morning to swollen and sore fingers. At the time of my diagnosis, I was a stay at home mother of two little children. Waking with swollen joints was something...
LIVING WITH LUPUS | Autumn

LIVING WITH LUPUS | Autumn

This is my Lupus story. To all my autoimmune brothers and sisters out there. I know that you are struggling just to make it through the day, I feel you. My name is Autumn and Systemic Lupus lives with me. I was diagnosed with SLE in 2006, on October the 8th. I...