The Ugly Truth about Lupus and Fibromyalgia---- Is it True

As you sit at a doctor’s office and you have Lupus and Fibromyalgia, listen to the patients waiting and you will hear how many women have both Lupus and Fibromyalgia. Yes, you are going to hear how many women will say, they have both diseases. Unknowingly, which one came first?

However, what about the two diseases that is so similar that you will most likely have them both at the same time. It is to close with the same symptoms, and what is even more important is the question. Are they cousins as far as the disease itself. Let’s say that this is something you hear often and you finally after seeing these patients on your monthly visits to your doctor you start asking yourself what is it that almost ninety-percent or more have both diseases. How is this related but you just cannot figure out how or what the reason may be.

As a patient to one or both diseases you have the right to wonder why almost everyone you know with one of these diseases, whether it is Lupus and Fibromyalgia or first diagnosis of Fibromyalgia and then Lupus. This is not uncommon, and I know that the entire medical scientist do not have the exact reason why someone might have Fibromyalgia and the exact reasons it responds and how to take care of the symptoms.

For example, let us start by looking deeper into Fibromyalgia and how long that it took to be a disease or even an illness. Discovering and when they finally put a name to the disease as years upon years ago, Fibromyalgia was a mysterious disorder, and even some patients were considered to just be a hypochondriac when they were in true pain and needed medical assistance.

Fibromyalgia was not discovered or named until the late 1800’s and this discovery was difficult as there was no way for them to test for this disease. Additionally, the doctor’s years ago had no physical features to look for in someone with this disease. Early on when finally discovered and named the only way that the diagnosis made was if the patient had complaints of chronic and severe pain in any of their muscles and had this pain for more than three months minimum. However, the new diagnosis and name came with the unknown way to help the sufferer of this disease. With no cure for us who suffer from Fibromyalgia and finally known this is a life- long and chronic disease that can flare up at any time, and or there are some whom do not get a break from the pain daily. The primary course of action to help with this disease was found to be treated with medications, stress management, and if possible some exercising.

Looking now further into the diagnosis of Lupus actually breaks down into three periods. For example, there is Classical, Neoclassical, and Modern. A doctor Rogerius first described classical lupus from the cutaneous disease and the name Lupus was in the Thirteenth Century. Believing that the facial lesions and or rash were from wolf bites and this was more fearful at that time causing less attention to help healing it. Odd it is but true; Lupus, in Latin means wolf, and has never changed since then. The Neoclassical Lupus diagnosed in the year of 1872. Made by the description of the disease’s systemic and or disseminated manifestation though the body and found by a medical dermatologist son Moriz Kaposi. Additionally, Kaposi even made the claim that there was more than one type of lupus, and found it to be systemic lupus and discoid lupus. In the year of 1948, was when discovered and named Modern Lupus, the researchers, and scientists discovered the cells in patient’s bone marrow. The history of both Lupus, and Fibromyalgia were difficult to find, worse the person whom had these diseases had no help until the final study, and yet even then they could not be treated correctly.

Today, both of these are real, there is a lot of information for Lupus, and this too is chronic with flare-ups for some or continuous. Therefore, what is the difference, and why do the patients with one of these seem to have the other disease to follow. I believe that there are not enough studies on both of these diseases to figure out that somehow their tied together.

As of today in the year of2012, approximately

1. More than 6 million people in the United States have Fibromyalgia

2. 1 in every 50 Americans will have Fibromyalgia

3. 80-90% of cases of Fibromyalgia is women

4. Fibromyalgia often co-occurs at least 65% of the time with Systemic Lupus

LUPUS STATISTICS FROM LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA

As of today in the year of 2012 approximately,

1. Up to 2 million Americans have some form of Lupus

2. Lupus starts developing within the ages of 15-44 years old

3. Men can get Lupus however, 90% of all Lupus sufferers in America are women

4. Systemic Lupus accounts for a minimum of 75% of all suffers

Once again looking at both statistics of these two diseases show how closely their tied together. Maybe the doctors should start testing and treating of their patient to watch and help with the possibility of them getting both chronic and painful symptoms that also matches the same pain and the difference is that Lupus can become dangerous to the organs of some people, and Fibromyalgia does not.