Lupus is just as difficult to diagnose as fibromyalgia, and because of this, people who are initially diagnosed with fibromyalgia often end up giving Lupus more than once to try. The symptoms can be very similar, although lupus pain is often more localized in the joints, while fibromyalgia pain is often diffuse and muscle intensive. Let’s look at the first similarities.
Both have pain in the muscles, extreme fatigue, confusion, fever (although fevers are higher with Lupus), and swollen glands. Both are often associated with headaches, dizziness, depression, chest pain, and anxiety, which, however, are less common in both.
Now, the differences. The first symptom of lupus is recklessness, often a “butterfly” recklessness that appears on the face. It can also appear on the neck, throat, and behind the ears. With lupus, the joints are painful, swollen, and arthritic, especially the hands, arms, hands, and feet. The accompanying fever can be very high, often over 103, and sufferers have chest pain from swelling in the pericardium and chest wall. Sufferers often have loss of hair, pale or purple fingers and toes from Reynaud’s phenomenon (this can In fibromyalgia sufferers become but it is rarer than in these wolves), photosensitivity, swelling of the legs or around the eyes, mouth ulcers and ulcers. Wolves may also experience hard attacks. New symptoms may appear years after the initial diagnosis, and different symptoms may occur at different times. In some cases, with lupus only one part of the body (such as the joints) is affected. Others have signs everywhere. The severity of the disease varies from person to person. Systemic lupus has effects on the kidneys, lungs, central nervous system, blood vessels, and heart. Part of these systemic effects of lupus can be fatal.
Fibromyalgia is systemically much less damaging, but just as difficult to live with. Other symptoms of fibromyalgia may include nausea, irritable bowel syndrome, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, skin complaints such as widespread epinyctidas; random skin allergies and skin sensitivity (in the “pig” effect), myofascial pain syndrome, weather changes, stiffness in the morning, sleep disturbances, chemical sensitivity, dysmenorrhoea, muscle twitching and weakness, urinary tract problems (including bladder spasms, irritations; and infection), cold symptoms without a cold, vision problems, and weight gain. Fibromyalgia sufferers may also experience numbness or tingling in their hands, feet, arms and legs. They may also experience restless leg syndrome, abdominal pain, bloating, and appetite changes. Many people with fibromyalgia complain that they are “hurt to be hungry” and cannot understand how to gain because they do not usually they get enough food to maintain their weight.
As you can see, despite the similarities there are some notable differences between these illnesses. The first difference is, in summary, that lupus is a disease that can lead to complications that will eventually lead to termination. Of course, with the right medicine and preventive treatment, that doesn’t have to be the case. But many also treat lupus as “just another woman’s disease” and have a very dismissive attitude.
Illness is not to be taken so lightly.
Personally, I don’t think it’s fibromyalgia, either, because it’s not easy to live with pain 24/7- but for my friends who have lupus, I’m deeply troubled by those who release their potential for destruction. in life and bodies.
It is a very terrible disease and one that needs care.
