Refresher Course: Living with the Wolf

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Diagnosing lupus is like trying to hit a moving target while riding a

bucking bronco. Living with it means you are continually on a roller

coaster ride. You don't know how you're going to feel minute to minute,

day to day.

Living with lupus has been likened to " living with the wolf " . Like the

wolf, Lupus is hard to capture and tame. No matter how well you think

you have Lupus under control with medications, sooner or later, " the

wolf " eventually reaches out and takes a bite out of your life.

Like wolves, each lupus patient is different. Some have few symptoms,

and have an outward appearance of being healthy. While others have so

many symptoms of the disease, they feel like the proverbial " road killed

wolf " .

Being diagnosed with Lupus no longer deserves the " death notice " disease

as it once did. Now the disease is better understood. It is more easily

diagnosed with newer blood profiles thus enabling treatment to begin

sooner lessening the damage done to internal organs.