Re: lupus in my daughter

In Reply to: Re: lupus in my daughter posted by Tina Ellenburg on March 26, 2000 at 21:20:53:

: Hi, I don't know for sure whether you are right or not. However they have thought for many years there may be a genetic link in lupus. I am the only known person in my family with lupus, however, in hind sight I believe my grandmother had lupus. She didn't have the rash either, but all the other symptoms and she died of kidney failure. Good luck and I sure hope your daughter, as well as you, will be okay.

My wonderful grandmother died from complications with Lupus at 69. I am alot like her in alot of ways, but I have never experienced signs of Lupus (I am a 41 yr old and have only one chronic illness - high blood pressure controlled with calcium channel blockers). How careful should I be in watching for Lupus???