kathryn+2

I'm new ,and just diagnosed so this may have already been covered in the past. My tests showed that sometime in my past I had the parvo virus. Now in doing some research I did read on one site that an inordinate amount of people with autoimmune disease also had either the parvo or herpes virus at some time. I just find it interesting, and it also makes sense to me . I'm wondering if because the virus is still lurking around in your cells in a dormant state, if maybe something triggers your body into thinking it needs to start fighting this virus again ,but since there is really no virus to fight it attacks itself. I know in my case I just went through a whole year of hell. I won't go into detail ,but to say I 've been stressed out would be putting it mildly. I know that stress itself can't CAUSE the lupus .But maybe it triggers it if you already have a predisposition to it. Just thinking out loud ,guys. I'm the type of person that likes to know the why's and hows.... thanks ,Kat