i have lupus does any one have it?

i also had this kind of disease... i was diagnose last may2006 so it's been a year that i am carrying this illness... i am taking 5-15mg of prednisone and calvit for my bones... the problems that i have is i am having buttrefly rashes on the face and it is very awkward to see but now it's already gone because i am taking plaquenil but now i stop taking it bcoz the butterfly rashes are gone... it only come back when i was under the heat of the sun & that's what i am avoiding to be heated by a very hot sunlight... hehehe... i also easily get tired, i have hair loss before but now it,s growing up normally... and lastly is that i can't sleep at night but in the morning i feel so sleepy... it's weird!!

i don't have lupus but my soon to be wife does and has had it for at least 4 yr that we know of . thanks to our new DR that we've got he has her going to a DR that will help her with her lupus . it was in her right hip but now it's starting to mess with her left hip now .she can only walk 4 so long and do so much for so long b4 it starts to hurt her . no matter what i'll always love her. thats why were getting married 8-10-07

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