Whaaat? Not sure what doctors you see but SLE does have a test battery that includes blood work and the presence of other shitty but objectively possessed sympt

Whaaat? Not sure what doctors you see but SLE does have a test battery that includes blood work and the presence of other shitty but objectively possessed symptoms like pleurisy. Many people with diagnosed lupus will tell you of the hard and stressful journey they went through to eventually get the diagnosis (because it’s rigorous and rather specific). The drugs that lupus patients get access to aren’t the kind you “get a kick out of” - meloxicam, hydroxychloroquine, prednisone, and it gets worse from there, e.g. methotrexate and other immunosuppressives. Lupus sucks balls, and the meds are almost as bad other than the fact that they keep you from dying early. I’ve never heard of a doctor that would take a self diagnosis of lupus seriously, much less do that and hand out prescription pain killers (assuming that’s what you’re alluding to). It would be like walking in and telling a doctor you had cancer and needed oxycodone to treat it: doc’s gonna have some questions and want to see some data first (hopefully).