Lupus Health Center
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Symptoms of lupus are not the same in every person and are not always constant. However, almost all people with lupus have joint pain and swelling. Some people with lupus will develop arthritis.The body parts lupus affects most often are fingers, hands, wrists and knees.
Other symptoms of lupus are:
- hair loss
- chest pain when deeply inhaling
- fatigue
- mouth sores
- sensitivity to sunlight
- fever
- swollen lymph nodes
- a skin rash that gets worse in the sunlight. It has a "butterfly" appearance over the nose and cheeks. About half of the people with lupus get this rash.
When certain parts of the body are infected, certain symptoms appear:
- brain and nervous system - headaches, tingling, numbness, seizures, vision problems, personality changes
- digestive tract - nausea, stomach pain, vomiting
- heart - irregular heart beat (arrhythmias)
- lungs - coughing up blood, difficulty breathing
- skin - skin color that is patchy, fingers that change color when cold. Patients that have only skin symptoms have a disease called discoid lupus