You may be familiar with autoimmune disorders such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis, but have you heard of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS)? POTS is a type of dysautonomia, which is a group of disorders that affects the autonomic nervous system and causes an ...
Lupus Research Alliance 2020 Virtual Fundraising Event
Some exciting news in the Lupus world is just around the corner! Although we’re not the same age, both of us were diagnosed with SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) when we were each 17 years old and this autoimmune disease has very much shaped our lives ever since. Along the course of both of our ...
How To Help Ease Autoimmune Symptoms With Autoimmune-Tea
One of the reasons we started this blog was to showcase products we believe in or that have helped us along the way. Recently, we stumbled across Autoimmuni-Tea, a California based tea company that creates teas formulated to help ease autoimmune symptoms. Not only that, but a portion of their ...
Providing A Life Update Regarding My Muscle Biopsy Surgery
A few months ago I had a muscle biopsy surgery to address some pretty severe pain I was routinely having in my limbs. In this post I want to talk a little more about my journey that took place before and after the surgery. So this whole process actually started a few years ago. I was having bizarre ...
What Are The Most Common Symptoms We Deal With?
Like all of our question series we answer everything separately and don't read each others answers till we're all done writing - keeps it more fun that way. Today we're answering the question 'What daily symptoms do each of us experience?' Here we go! Emily's Daily Symptoms Em: First let me start ...
What Causes Our Autoimmune And Autonomic Symptoms To Flare?
Like all of our question series we answer everything separately and don't read each others answers till we're all done writing - keeps it more fun that way. What causes our symptoms to flare?... Here we go! Em: Sometimes you can’t really avoid crashes no matter how careful you are. For ...
What Is The Autoimmune Disease Lupus?
Autoimmune diseases are so vast and complex that the thought of wrapping them up into one post is a bit overwhelming. One of the tricky things about autoimmune diseases is that they have a funny way of being unique to their host. For example, two people with Lupus can have an entirely different list ...
