What is Lupus?

What is Lupus?

What is Lupus? According to: http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/lupus/ff_lupus.htm#b website, Lupus is
the immune system is designed to attack foreign substances in the body. If you have lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system and it attacks healthy cells and tissues. This can damage many parts of the body such as the:
Joints ,Skin, Kidneys, Heart, Lungs, Blood vessels, Brain.
There are many kinds of lupus. The most common type, systemic lupus erythematosus, affects many parts of the body.

Who Gets Lupus?
Anyone can get lupus, but it most often affects women. Lupus is also more common in women of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American descent than in Caucasian women.

What Causes Lupus?
The cause of lupus is not known. It is likely that many factors trigger the disease.
Some have said that every woman has the Anti body for Lupus, but it is only triggered when something tramatic happens in their life (i.e. a bad breakup, pregnancy). But why some women will have a flare up and others won't is still the biggest mystery.

My Story:
As for me, I never had a symptom or even knew that I could have the Antibodies for Lupus until my third pregnancy. I have what the doctors call Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrom, which means that you don't have any of the above mention symptoms, but when your pregnant your body attacks the placentia as if it was a cold to the point that all life is terminated. I found out the hard way!! I was in my late twenties and pregnant for the 3rd time. My previous pregnancy which was seven month earlier, ended at 5 month and the one before that was 13 months earlier ended at 6 weeks. So at the early stages of my 3rd pregnancy, a series of test were done and one of them was a siffulus, but the thing was I had no symptoms of that either!! We 2 days later I get the test results and I had a postive-negative reading for siffulus...what did this mean? There was something wrong with my blood system...so off I went to a Rheumatologist for more test. And there I was 6 weeks pregnant diagnosised with Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrom..what would this mean..I was still unaware of the implications that any of this meant....