Living With Lupus SLE💜You Never Know How Strong You Are, Until You Have To Be

🩺💜🩺LUPUS is a invisible disease. There is still so much that is not known about this invisible debilitating disease. Unfortunately Lupus Research is underfunded. 💊There are treatments, NOT CURES, that may provide some measure of relief. Often the treatments are medications intended to be used for other disease's. Some come with their own potentially harmful side effects. 💊Plaquenil is 1 such drug. Long term treatment with Plaquenil can lead to blindness. Bi-annual comprehensive eye exams are mandatory, when taking Plaquenil, to detect early on set vision loss in hopes of preventing total blindness. 🐺🦋The word ‘lupus’ (Latin for ‘wolf’) is attributed to the thirteenth century physician Rogerius who used it to describe erosive facial lesions that were reminiscent of a wolf's bite or a butterfly shaped discoloration across the nose and cheeks. If someone you know, or if you have been diagnosed with Lupus, https://www.lupus.org/ has wonderful information. 💜MAY IS LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH, YOU CAN HELP💜WEAR PURPLE 2 SHOW SUPPORT💜