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Thankful Thursday!

It's that time of the week again! Here's a cool graphic with ideas of things we can be thankful for. You can choose one from the list below or add your own. Join us in the comments below and tell us a few things you're thankful for!
#PTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #MentalHealth #BipolarDisorder #Depression #Anxiety #Schizophrenia
#Addiction #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #LupusNephritis

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I'm new here!

Hi, my name is Sentence_4_life.

I'm worried about where to go from here. I have been dealing with these issues for a very long time. I feel like the doctors are tired of finding more and more autoimmune issues. I am tired of hearing it and having to deal with the effects. The medical issues I have, hold me back. But the medications are worse. I want to move and live my remainder of my life somewhere I would like to be. Because the regulations of the medications, it is the real issue of me not being able to move somewhere more affordable. The government has stepped in, and the doctors are no longer taking the proper care for you and your stuck if you are put on opioids early on and moving to another state isn't as easy as it sounds. Finding another set of doctors like I have now. Is extremely difficult, regardless of all your images, records, reports, medical documentation. They want you to start all over again and not prescribe the same meds. I am 62 years old. I just want to move where I wish to. Go to a doctor's office get to know the doctor like the old days. Get my medication filled and go back to my life. I have been attempting it for 3 years. I hit brick walls of what another doctor wants and etc. I'm old, tired, and want to relax for my remainder here.

#MightyTogether #Anxiety #Depression #Migraine #ADHD #RheumatoidArthritis #OCD #Fibromyalgia #MultipleSclerosis #Endometriosis #LupusNephritis #Lupus #RaynaudsPhenomenon #CeliacDisease #SjogrensSyndrome #Arthritis #PeripheralNeuropathy

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Curing Lupus

I was diagnosed with Lupus nephritis after a horrible flare up 7 months ago. Since then it’s been nothing but a laundry list of medications and doctors visits and blood tests. The medications are horrible namely prednisone with all of the side effects like moon face, insomnia, and weight gain. I don’t want this to be my forever. I’ve seen people say they’ve “cured” themselves by diet and lifestyle changes. Can anyone speak to this? If not any suggestions of medications other than prednisone?? Thank you in advance!

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I'm new here!

Hi, my name is Djjohnson1410. I'm here because I am living with lupus and I’m barely able to walk or move my joints swell up all the time my doctor finally has me on infusions but they don’t seem to be helping and I’m wondering if anyone else has came up with something that has helped them

#MightyTogether #LupusNephritis #Lupus

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Grieving what will never be.

I’m so tired. I found out a few days ago that I cannot have children, I cannot get pregnant and carry a baby to term, let alone safely.
I have Lupus nephritis- lupus in my kidneys. I have anti-phospholipid antibodies syndrome, infertility is a major symptom of this condition too.
You kind of need healthy, functional kidneys to have a baby, and have blood that functions normally or at least efficiently enough- to carry a baby. I have neither.
People have been telling me “well you can always adopt!” But that’s not the point. Besides, I was adopted when I was a baby. I’ve battled with the difficulty of being adopted- I couldn’t adopt a kid to build my family as I couldn’t help them cope with their experiences when I can barely do the same for myself.
It doesn’t replace the fact that I feel so empty, knowing that I should be able to have a pregnancy. Every other woman on the planet is able to have a baby. Almost every woman on this planet has functioning organs and blood at the very least. I feel like I have failed in every single aspect of life a human could fail in. And on another stupid note, who on earth would want to marry an infertile, chronically ill, medically fragile women?! No one. Or at least not anyone who would fit my standards of basic human decency. I’ve been too disappointed by men who’ve tried to take advantage of me for those reasons.
I’m broken on a cellular level, my organs are broken, my mental health is broken… and now the one thing I was counting on, to complete in my life as a women? I am broken there too. I’m a failure of a woman, and a human. How do you move on in life when your future is wrecked in every single way possible, and it’s set in stone? Every option is awful and I’m so so tired of all of this. #Lupus #LupusNephritis #SystemicLupus #AntiphospholipidSyndrome #Infertility #autoimune #Vasculitis #MentalHealth #Anxiety #Depression #PTSD #Grief #advisemeplease

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Tips for Upset Stomach

Hi guys! Ive been on the same meds for 3 years and now im pretty sure they are causing me mild indegestion. Ive talked to my doctors and they agree that its probably my meds. Does anyone have any tips to aleviate a tummy ache? #ChronicIllness #Lupus #LupusNephritis

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