Learning to Live with Lupus: One Step at a Time

Lupus patients can experience a variety of signs and symptoms, which include:

• Fever
• Joint stiffness, pain, and swelling
• Butterfly-shaped rash
• Skin lesions
• Raynaud's phenomenon (when your fingers and toes turn white or blue when exposed to stress or cold weather)
• Breathlessness
• Headaches, confusion, memory loss
• Dry eyes