Lupus Journeys are stories of people who struggled with lupus or another autoimmune disease for years and today are healed or in long-term remission. In each case, dietary and lifestyle changes were key to their recovery. Their stories are inspiring. May they encourage you and give you hope that our next story of healing will be yours!
This is a great video about Mette Dyhrberg, founder and CEO of Mymee, a digital therapeutics program rethinking autoimmunity. Mymee’s Mission, in part, is “to help people identify the root causes for their problems and inspire them to change the specific habits to reverse their symptoms.” As an authority on autoimmune issues, Mette is a […]
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My journey with lupus began in 1981. I had been going through a stressful time in my life, including a job change and preparing for my 10 year high school class reunion, when I started to break out in hives. They first appeared on my hands and feet, with big, red, itchy welts. I hadn’t […]
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I have been ask hundreds of times over the past five years about my journey with the Autoimmune disease, Lupus. I was diagnosed with both Cutaneous (Discoid) as well as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. During the course of the past eight years, I’ve managed to learn how to support my body in the best ways possible […]
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Hello! My name is Hailey and I am 24 years old. I graduated from Stockton University in December of 2016 with a degree in Health Science and a Minor in Holistic Health. In 2015, I was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Sjogren’s Syndrome, and Raynaud’s Phenomenon. I grew up a very competitive athlete and my […]
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Lupus came to me at the peak of my life as I was finishing up my last year of Doctoral Study. Always an overachiever, I had my career planned out for the next 10 years. Then, on a sunny spring Wednesday afternoon (March 11, 2000), my classmates gathered on the plush green lawn studying for […]
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In September 2015, I decided to stop eating meat after watching several documentaries detailing the meat industry and its treatment of animals. What I had seen would haunt me forever and prevent me from wanting to ever partake in the harming of animals in any way again. Over the course of the next year, I […]
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When I was 16 years old, my doctor told me I had six months left to live. I was diagnosed with systemic lupus (lupus nephritis) and was in stage 4 kidney failure. It was so severe that my doctor told me that the best case scenario with standard treatments was dialysis; the worst case scenario […]
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When comedian Gina Yashere last toured Britain, she called the show Skinny B*tch. It was a typically indelicate reference to her recent dramatic weight loss, thanks to a strict regime of raw foods. After shedding 70 lbs, and dropping four dress sizes to a 12, she enthuses about buying skinny jeans and ‘all those clothes […]
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They say it’s not about the destination, but rather the journey. I’m going to be honest – the destination is pretty spectacular too! Five years ago on the first Friday of April, I took myself to the hospital just like I did the first Friday of every month. It was my monthly infusion day when […]
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This is not a story about weight loss but a story about a miracle. My 17 year old daughter, Vanessa, tried to join the Air Force in October of 2001. She scored well and passed everything, but the urine test. She had too much protein in her urine. We had her drink a lot of water […]
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My patient Shenna was excited. We were just beginning our first appointment, and she was hoping to finally resolve her symptoms and get off her medications. Shenna had been diagnosed with lupus about six years ago. Lupus is a chronic inflammatory condition in which the immune system attacks a wide variety of the body’s tissues […]
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