Category: Health

Do you ever have days where you just can’t seem to make it out of bed?  I’m talking about lupus fatigue and lupus malaise.  You know, the days where your body has just given up and mentally you can not even process a simple conversation.  I find myself zoning out often, as if my brain is ‘too tired’ to even comprehend something someone is saying.  I HATE days like that. A total of 53–80% of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients identify fatigue as one of their primary symptoms. – Source: Int J Clin…

Looking to Buy a Weighted Blanket for Lupus? If you suffer from lupus, you probably understand the pain that many of us suffer from daily.  Even though we are so completely fatigued throughout the day, there are many nights that we may lay awake from insomnia or painsomnia.  A decent night’s sleep can really determine what kind of day we will have in the morning. So naturally, I got a spark of interest when I begin to hear the rave reviews from friends and family members that have tried weighted…

I have not been very active on my lupus blog lately due to having surgery on my nose earlier this summer, my chronic idiopathic urticaria  and recently my partial nephrectomy I had for Kidney Cancer. A few months ago, I had septoplasty with turbinate reduction done to help me with breathing issues I had been having for quite some time.  After an initial CT scan requested from my ENT doctor, I was diagnosed with a deviated septum and bilateral concha bullosa. The CT scan also said that I had a…

If you have followed my blog for a while, you probably are aware that I also suffer from bilateral trigeminal neuralgia and atypical face pain as well.  I have been for fortunate with all of my health related issues in 2019, that the trigeminal neuralgia didn’t really flare too much this year.  So, naturally, my body decides to celebrate the holidays with lupus and a trigeminal neuralgia flare. I figured I was definitely experiencing the beginning of a lupus flare this last week.  My joint and muscle pain was raging. …