re: My Wife Has Been Diagnosed with Lupus

I have a couple of close relatives with autoimune diseases...what Ace says is pretty much spot on...

the whole shite is really strange as hell in that one minute, they are just fine and then a few hours later, they feel like total shite and then back to normal a few hours after that...

the unpredictable nature of it all seems to really wear on folks and if you see her getting depressed, urge her to get help...lots of the medicines used to treat the associated pain are actually antidepressants, so they help out in multiple ways...

bottom line is, the whole thing is fairly well manageable as long as the two of you work together for support...

ETA: hope you have good insurance, as your wife will be regularly visiting a hell of a lot of different doctors...