Sorry to hear that. Lupus is a complicated disease that attacks various organs of the body. People with this disease also suffer from many lupus flare-ups. Although there's no cure for it, medications and lifestyle changes play an important role in relieving the symptoms of lupus and preventing lupus flares. Hope that the following tips can help your mother live peacefully with lupus:
- Accept this disease and learn how to live with it
- take medications following the instructions of her doctor
- Think positive
- Reduce stress by sharing her troubles with trusted people and joining some lupus clubs to learn more experience
- Avoid sunlight. Never going out between 11 a.m and 3 p.m because UV rays work strongest during the time that make your skin rash worsen
- Begin with mild exercises, such as doing yoga, walking or aqua therapy to strengthen joints and muscles
- Sleep early and take rest whenever she feels tired
- Stop poor diets, such as processed foods, fried foods or packaged foods. Instead, increase healthy food intake, you should add more leafy green vegetables, berries fruits, and omega 3 acid foods to your diet.
- Take supplement. some types of lupus supplements are effective in reducing inflammation of lupus, such as Lupufree, vitamin D3 or vitamin B12 complex.
Best wishes to your mother.

Thank you so much for giving my mother a lot of useful tips. I just wanna ask that Do these tips certainly reduce the symptoms of lupus and prevent flare-ups?

there's no sure for lupus, your mother may feel okay on this day but it's not always like that on the next days. These tips only help lower the severity of lupus. Also, depending on the symptoms of your mother, these can be more or less effective. On a whole, your mother should listen her body, keep her mind at ease and make lifestyles changes to feel better

Many thanks- emma212. I'm sad to know my mother has this complicated disease, Can I do something to help her? I only hope she can get better

Of course, you can help her to deal with lupus. Ask her what does she need for help. Take care of her health and listen to her troubles. Lupus patients often suffer from harsh and sudden pain that hurt them, you should sympathize and understand what she is going through. Or you can encourage her to exercise and go with her, cook healthy meals for her. These are a great support for her

Yes, I see it. Thank you so much again- emma212.

I was diagnosed 6 years ago and was a mess both physically and mentally. I too had symptoms for many years before I found help. My PCP told me that it was my age and menopause. some family doctors have never had a patient with Lupus. I agree with all of the tips that you have been given above. Please read all you can to educate yourself about the disease, the treatments, the meds that are used, etc. Please be patient to see results, but they will come if you follow your medicine regiment. Finding the right meds is also a trial and error process. Please don't be discouraged if a medicine makes you sick, because there are other ones to try. I would like to stress that each day is different. There will be days when you can't get out of bed and others where you feel decent. Your welcome to add me as a friend if you like.

Hi
I have Undifferentiated Conn. Tissue Disease (aka, Lupus Like Illness) alone with a bunch of other medical issues. The spoon theory might be something to look into. Is she still working? If not it might be easier to use this practice. Essentially you allot yourself a number of spoons per day (say 50) and then assign a number to each thing that you have to do (for example: talking on the phone for an hour=3 spoons, cleaning the house=5 spoons, cooking a meal=4 spoons etc..). First it might serve as a learning tool (for example, where am I spending my energy. Then once you've got it down (and of course, don't discount emotional stress), you will try to stay within you allotted spoons each day. You can look this up and it might be explained better by someone else. So anyway I hope that this helps. I am going to join this group because, though I don't have all the symptoms of Lupus (as far as I know) I have many of them.

Hi everyone, I have just been diagnosed with skin lupus by accident. I went to the dermatologist for one thing and the next thing you know Lupus. The hardest thing for me is the covering up in the sun. I have hats now of various designs and loads of sun screen. It was very good advice to try to stay in dining the hours of 11am and 3pm. That makes since. I had an unusual bout with having red blotches on my arm. Derm was not certain what they were and gave me creams to deal with them which has helped. The biopsy of a lesion on my arm indicated the diagnosis to be possible Lupus vs. inconclusive. Now reading the info here I think they may have been lupus blotches. They are almost gone now. I have a Rheumatologist appt. with MD for follow up and to let him know what has been going on and maybe he will be able to see the remnants of the blotches and may want to add something to my RA meds. I am on Kevzara self inject twice a month (every two weeks). Most of the time I don't have an appetite, but do try to eat healthy. I am glad that this support group is here for us. Thank you all in advance.