My Story
Posted by DoBadd on October 13, 2015 at 7:48pm
So I’m new to lupus even though I’ve had the symptoms my whole life. When I was a preteen I was tested for it because none of the dermatologist I’ve been to could figure out why my skin was always breaking out. The results came back negative and so I continued to live my life with these scars all over my body. For the next 5-6 years I lived like this as the disease slowly started to manifest. I began noticing small but weird changes in my body like the Raynaud’s syndrome, (which I didn’t know was a symptom at the time), feeling slightly tired at times, depression,and muscle aches. I thought it was all because of the stress of college and just living life. I finally found my answer after one day at a water park spending the entire day in the sun and the rest of the week feeling like crap that something was wrong. I couldn’t sleep because of the pain i had when I took a breath. (pleurisy).I researched my symptoms as I always do when i’m sick and found out I probably had lupus. I went to a rheumatologist to confirm what I already knew… At first I felt fine, but as the months go on it seems like it’s getting worse. I’m relieved after 13 years of not knowing what is wrong with my skin that I have answers, but it wasn’t quite the answer I was searching for.