I've battled muscle pains and gi issues for years. I was diagnosed with sjogren's in 2011 after years of defective GI issue and overall feeling of unwellness, by a major American hospital. Fatigue, joint pain, GI issues never understood or diagnosed. The only thing on blood work as a definite positive ANA and a deficient pancreas, and a positive lip biopsy for sjogren's. I had felt quite good for a number of years since 2011. Stay active and a very low fat diet. Since spring of 2014 I've felt at times of feeling of flu like symptoms. Never for too long but a couple of hours. I've also been more and more fatigued and completely wiped out. My gut is a mess. Same pain as for years, but more intense and the flu like feeling and fatigue is unbearable. Since November things have gotten worse and worse. I'd take my feelings of 5 years ago at this point in a heartbeat. Now there's talk of having lupus for with a sjogren's diagnose which has never been mentioned by the major American hospitals. I was on placquenil (sp?) for a number of years after the kind of sjogren's diagnosis, but "Fell" off taking it for awhile with no real Dr support and was feeling pretty good for a long time. At present I'm a couple weeks into starting it again and its thought it will take a few months to get back in my system. Lupus never mentioned ever before and I basically want to understand if a GI tract so messed up could be due to Lupus, along with a feeling of flu over whelming me and as wiped out as I've ever been. I'm sleeping 10 + hours a night and upon waking could sleep for another 5 hours and never rested. The joint pain and muscle pain is nothing compared to the flu feeling and feeling absolutely wiped out. I'm in my mid 40s and a male which is even more interesting based on percentages of diagnosis being male. At this point I'm sure I have some form of cancer, but at this point no scans or other tests show it. If this isn't and is lupus, I have complete sympathy for all posters in this group. My only knowledge is a neighbor died of the disease 30 years ago when I was a kid, but otherwise websites listing symptoms all over the board. My family especially my 6 year old twins have no idea why daddy always feels bad though they do know something is wrong and some positive tests over the year's have shown something is off.