The Lupus and Autoimmune Blog

Although I was gifted a Quell device to test, I was not paid for this blog post. Opinions are completely my own and I have not been influenced by the company for the following statements. Over the past 15 years since my Lupus diagnosis, I’ve met countless men and women suffering from chronic, incurable diseases […]

*This post is written by Diamond, our guest blogger. Every chronic illness sufferer knows that his or her relationship with food is a complicated and turbulent matter. Many conditions are intrinsically linked to diet, and subsequent allergies and intolerances are likely. On the other hand, nearly everywhere you turn there are fad diets and magic […]

This post is sponsored by Chronic Illness Bloggers & Visbiome IBD Awareness week is just around the corner, so what better time to talk about something intimately tied to our immune system – our gut and intestinal tract! If you have never  heard of IBD Awareness week, it was started back in 2011 when the […]

One of the aspects of the Lupus community I love the most is our collective voice. Lupus patients aren’t afraid to speak out and offer themselves and their experience to research. We are so thankful for this at LupusChick. As many of you know, and many of you were a part of, LupusChick was part […]

This past May, my husband and I checked a box off my bucket list. Since long before my chronic illness diagnosis (15 years ago), I have wanted to visit Nova Scotia. Most of my life I have had a weird fascination with Canada, yet I had never been there! At the beginning of May, we […]

My husband, God love him, is the healthiest freaking person on the planet. For real. Sick twice in the past 12 years we have been together. One of those times is when we both got the death flu. I thought we had Ebola for sure. Twelve days later, looking on par with the grim reaper, […]