I chose lupus for my autoimmune disease. “Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs when your body’s immune system attacks your own tissues and organs.” (Mayo Clinic, 2015). Lupus can cause inflammation that can affect the joints, skin, kidneys, blood calls, brain heart and lungs. Symptoms for lupus are fatigue, fever, joint pain, butterfly-shaped rash on face, and shortness of breath and chest pain. People who have lupus may have symptoms for some time that will disappear and may come back. Sunlight, infections within the body and medications can cause lupus. Diagnosing lupus is hard because the signs and symptoms are different for everyone. “No one test can diagnose lupus. The combination of blood and urine tests, signs and symptoms,
