27/06/2025
Lupus
Do you have Lupus Erythematosus? Maybe your wife or husband or mother or sister has it.
What is it? It is an autoimmune disease which is a disease in which your body produces antibodies against various tissues in the body. Your immune system was designed by God to fight diseases such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. Sometimes something goes haywire and instead of the immune system creating antibodies against streptococcus, influenza, malaria, athletes foot fungus, etc, your immune system makes antibodies against your connective tissue, your synovium, cartilage, your myoneural junction, lungs, skin, and many other tissues.
Here is a list of tissues attacked by your own immune system in various autoimmune diseases:
• Joint pain: rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, scleroderma, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, ankylosing spondylitis.
• Liver: autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis.
• Kidneys: post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, Alport syndrome, IgA nephropathy, lupus erythematosus, Goodpasture syndrome, ANCA-associated vasculitis.
• Skin: psoriasis, lupus, vitiligo.
• Endocrine: Type 1 Diabetes, Grave’s Disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Addison’s disease.
• GI: Celiac disease, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative colitis.
• Nervous System: Multiple Sclerosis, Myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome.
• Lungs: Goodpasture syndrome, sarcoidosis.
• Heart: rheumatic heart disease, giant cell myocarditis.
So, there are autoimmune diseases for almost every organ and every tissue type found in the human body. And, lupus is just one of the many types of autoimmune diseases. So, what are the symptoms and findings of lupus in people? Lupus affects much more women than men. Symptoms include joint pain, skin rashes (the common butterfly rash across the nose and the malar region of the face), fatigue, fever, and organ damage. Also weight loss, enlarged lymph nodes, lupus pneumonitis (lung involvement), lupus nephritis (kidney involvement), oral and nasal ulcers, photosensitivity, arthralgias and arthritis, fibromyalgia, polymyositis, polyarthritis, intractable headaches (>50%), ischemic strokes, autonomic neuropathies, vasculitis, anemia, and multiple other manifestations.
Pain is a common symptom of lupus patients. Many times it can be intractable.
Pain is one of the important things that we treat for our lupus patients. We do not use medications (no injections and no pills). No TENS units. We have a new device that uses RF energy to stimulate a biochemical reaction. It is totally based on science. Please call us at Durant Medical Clinic and we will give you a demonstration.
We also treat pain from other chronic diseases such as CRPS, fibromyalgia, scleroderma, MS, muscular dystrophy, migraine headaches, PTSD, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, and others. Call us at (580) 745-5544 or e-mail us at clavicle7@gmail.com.
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