


| After only a day at Norris, this is what Jo Beth learned: That lupus rarely kills, but can make you hurt a lot and feel like dog doo-doo a lot of the time. That is hits women more often, but may hit men more seriously. That many doctors today think of lupus as a disease that develops around age 30, but that doctors way-back-when knew that often lupus patients shared childhood characteristics: emaciation-like thinness, easy bruising, extreme clumsiness. That since the widespread use of steroids to treat lupus, some doctors have confused side effects of the drugs with symptoms of the disease (As in "Uh-oh, worse symptoms! Up the dosage!") That many doctors use a standard checklist to decide if a patient has lupus, but the list they use wasn't intended for that, and this misuse probably causes missed diagnoses. |
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| Learn how olden-timey doctors used to diagnose lupus in a snap. |