I had a feeling you were going to say Lupus about Queen Anne's face. My moms best friend's daughter who lives far away has been dealing with Lupus for 30 years now. She had that butterfly rash many times. She has had a kidney transplant and has been in a wheelchair for the past 10 years now. Her mom told her that she got Lupus because of a medication that her mom had to take when she was pregnant with her. I don;t remember the name of that medication. Eoulizumab costs $500,000 per year? Insane! Sometimes the medication you take can cause more severe symptoms or diseases that are worse than you already have. And what really makes me mad is when doctors put a band-aide on the problem with medications instead of getting to the bottom of what caused your symptoms.
What you wrote about low levels of C4 was very interesting. I will have to get those levels checked when I get my next blood test done. I am sorry to hear about all of the diseases that run in your family. Thank goodness they have you for their advocate. Very informative post and well done @agmoore! Great chart that you made too. : )
P.S. Remember your post about Polio and I told you that when I was a child, we were given sugar cubes as a vaccine for polio? Well, the prompt for one of the freewrites was, of all things, "sugar cubes" and I wrote about the polio sugar cubes. While writing I did remember a few other things about it. I thought you might in interested in reading it...read only...do not upvote please!
Stay warm and well AG! Hugs!
Hi @whatisnew! Thanks for those kind words. I'm sorry about your friend...approximately 40% of people who have lupus eventually develop kidney problems. Sounds like that young lady has a terrible case. I am so sorry. It is a miserable, miserable disease.
I can't think of any medication taken in pregnancy that can cause lupus in offspring. I'll have to look into that. If a mother has autoantibodies, (elevated ANA) that may cross the placenta, maybe, in a very small number of cases and lead to lupus in a child. That's what I've read, anyway.
I don't think the mother should feel the burden of thinking she caused her daughter to become ill.
I do remember our polio discussion...you never know when something will come in handy. That's the creative mind for you.
As for my family...probably weird genes. I think we should submit to some kind of study and do science a favor :))
I'm going to go look at that polio story now and definitely will not upvote :))
You stay warm, and creative.
From rainy New York,
Hugs back, AG
I just upvoted myself...nice that I approve of my own opinion. Silly woman.
HaHaHaHa! I will give you my stamp of approval too. LOL!