Parent is referring to the television show House, M.D. where there's a temptation to diagnose any strange illness as lupus. That's actually a valid point, as i

Parent is referring to the television show House, M.D. where there's a temptation to diagnose any strange illness as lupus. That's actually a valid point, as it's too easy to lump any sort of undiagnosed, chronic-like illness into lupus. Nonetheless, it never hurts to check as there's a fairly simple test for it that could be used along side a different diagnosis. Lupus, however, is rare and is 10x more likely to occur in women than in men so I wouldn't be surprised if it's under-diagnosed. Note, Lupus is also just one of auto-immune disorders. Somebody else had also suggested that the poster could be suffering from an auto-immune disorder.