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my mother has lupus and recently informed me that she is at stage 3, can anyone explain what that means? She's having a hard time with treatments, something about her body rejecting them. I'm really looking to find out how this disease affects the body. I try to talk to her but she gets upset, and tells me not to worry. Please help guys, i sure would appreciate it.
deleted_user
My Dr.'s have never talked about my Lupus ie stages, nor have I read of it as stages. However, if you googple Lupus, there is a lot of excellent info on line that I think you will find helpful. I'm thinking your mom must be advanced to having her kidneys involved (?)
deleted_user
I have Lupus and have kidney damage from it. When I have a lot of protein in my urine, they tell me I have stage 3 Lupus Nephritis. That is the only staging I know about. Does she have kidney trouble?
whoaminone
Im not sure if she is having trouble with her kidneys. But i do know that her liver is going through something, the docs r going to do a biopsy to check out a possible liver disease.
deleted_user
after my biopsy of my kidney the doctor told me that my lupus is stage 1 only (consider as minor) but still needs to be treated. I even ask my biopsy copy and all the writings they wrote there to help me understand and I google some also. I also got bubbles in my urine.
deleted_user
I WAS UNDER TH EIMPRESSION THAT IT WENT SOMETHING LIKE SKIN, THEN BLOOD THEN ORGANS...AS FAR AS STAGES? OR BLOOD THEN SKIN...CANT REMEMBER CAUSE WE WENT FROM SKIN TO ORGANS IN NO TIME WITH MOM. ITS IN THE OLDER BOOKS THAT YOU CAN GET ON LUPUS
deleted_user
I believe when I go to the dr. and they always check stage 4 on my sheet. I know that my lupas in SLE. Even though I am in stage for I am doing fine with it. It might be the worse kind for me.
deleted_user
From what my docs told me, the stages refer to the amount of damage done to the body, usually organs.
deleted_user
this is al good info i didnt know any of this thanks to all
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