As someone who’s lived with lupus for over 20 years and experienced a great deal of holiday seasons while managing a chronic illness, Marisa shares her 5 go-to strategies to help decrease stress levels, prevent the severity of flares and symptoms, and successfully manage lupus during the holidays.
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Marisa Zeppieri has been living with lupus for 20 years. In this article, she shares her advice for people looking to support a friend, family member, or loved one living with this disease.
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As someone who knows the struggles of a lupus diagnosis and how hard it can be to manage on a daily basis, I’ve compiled my personal list of effective lifestyle tips for managing lupus.
To get a better understanding of this condition, Marisa Zeppieri shares a detailed look into how lupus changed her life.
In advocating for yourself and others, in addition to dealing with symptoms each day, you get a fast track in education and the more you know, the more you realize there are a lot of misconceptions and myths that surround every illness. Lupus, unfortunately, has many misunderstandings and these errors can make it difficult for people like me to get proper support, medical treatment, and assistance.
The causes and triggers of lupus are different for each person. Some people have a strong family history, while others will be the first person in their family to be diagnosed. Check out our list of causes and triggers to help you identify if you are at risk or to learn what’s causing your lupus flares.
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Lupus is an autoimmune disease, which means the body attacks its own cells and organs. When this happens, the inflammation, pain, and swelling that’s so familiar to lupus sufferers can become a permanent and painful part of everyday life.
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Lupus is an autoimmune disease (when your body’s defense systems turn on you) and can cause chronic conditions lasting for years. We look into the most common symptoms and risk factors of this condition.
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Even though lupus may appear “invisible” to outsiders, lupus patients can tell you firsthand about the numerous combinations of symptoms (i.e., skin rash, swelling of joints, anxiety, joint pain, fatigue, depression, and sleep disruptions), the triggers of a lupus flareup, and the obstacles to controlling this chronic inflammatory disease. The infographic series below was created by MyLupusTeam (with the help of their over 50,000 […]
Many patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) find themselves back in the hospital within one month’s time, a new report shows. SLE is an autoimmunue disease which causes the immune system to mistake healthy tissue for foreign invaders. This results in the immune system attacking healthy tissue, causing damage to critical different parts of the […]