Today is World Arthritis Day, and I am taking part in a blog carnival type of thing: World Arthritis Day 2010: Global Awareness Event hosted by the International Autoimmune Arthritis Movement (IAAM). Every lupus patient has a different story to tell. It’s a disease that varies so much from person to person that sometimes it almost seems like a completely different disease. Is it affecting the kidneys or not? Is it causing fevers or not? Do you have rashes? Which meds are you

According to the National Fibromyalgia Association, fibromyalgia affects 10 million people just in the USA alone … and 3-6% of the world population overall. Of those people somewhere between 75 to 90 percent are women. Fibromyalgia involves both chronic pain and chronic fatigue, trouble sleeping, and a number of other symptoms including headaches/migraines. Many of us suffer from “brain fog” and are often forgetting things, which is frustrating to no end. There are so many ot

The other day in the gym locker room, I overheard a conversation between two elderly women. The first was trying to convince her friends to attend a fundraiser (I missed what it was for). Her friend replied, “There are so many CAUSES now. What are all these diseases? Do they really all need funding? There can’t be that many people suffering if we don’t know about the disease. Can’t you throw a fundraiser to support some sort of cancer? At least I would know that my money is g