Besides being Dysautonomia Awareness Month, October is also Lupus Awareness month.
For those of you who don’t know what Lupus is, Lupus is an autoimmune condition, autoimmune being a condition in which the body’s immune system attacks its own healthy tissue. Lupus can affect the joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs. There are three different types of Lupus:
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
- Discoid (Cutaneous) Lupus and
- Drug-induced Lupus (DIL).
The awareness ribbon colour for Lupus is purple so to raise awareness and show my support for people living with Lupus I decided to decorate my cupcake with purple icing and butterflies because the symbol for Lupus is a butterfly because of the butterfly like rash (Malar rash) which appears over the bridge of the nose and the cheek and is one of the symptoms of Lupus and I love butterflies. I find cupcake decorating very therapeutic.
I will be making some handmade Lupus Awareness merchandise too in the coming days which will be up for sale on my new website at all-hearts.org/shop/ so please follow me at all-hearts.org and on my Facebook page Allheart Australia if you want to keep up to date.
Coolncreative 
Cute cupcake!💜
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Thank you. It was really yummy. I enjoy cupcake decorating. It helps de-stress me.
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So many auto immune disorders, I get that dreaded butterfly rash but when tested for lupus my ana wasnt high enough, I have many of the symptoms but then again alot mimic the same symptoms. At the moment I just finished round 3 of iron infushions as my iron is almost nil even on high doses of oral supplments, never ending battle. Thanks for blogging some awarness for Lupus as well. I have hashimotos (tested positive almost 10 years ago)
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Yes I know. If you have the butterfly rash you should probably get yourself re-tested as there are other autoimmune conditions which also present with the Malar rash, not just Lupus. have they tested you for autoimmune hemolytic anemia? I will be making some thyroid awareness merch next year so you can check out my store at https://all-hearts.org Often a lot of autoimmune conditions cause anaemia .
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Not tested for that thanks for the info Ill have look it up. Its all so overwhelming I just get by trying to treat each symptom as it it comes along and effects me.
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No problem. Thank you for reading my post. It is my mission to raise as much awareness for chronic illness as I can, especially the ones you don’t hear of. I would ask your doctor as I am not a doctor myself. There’s also pernicious Aneamia.
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You can follow me on my new website at all-hearts.org where I hope to raise awareness for multiple chronic conditions through art.
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