Lupus: “Not everyone agrees to come to us because some are afraid of the disease”

Marie-Claire Norca, president of the Association Lupus Antilles-Guyane (ALAG)

World Lupus Day is today, Tuesday, May 10. This is an opportunity to talk about a disease that many only know by name. The president of the Association Lupus Antilles-Guyane tells us a little more about this pathology that some call the disease with a thousand faces.

Are you directly affected by this disease?

I had my first symptoms when I was 7, but was diagnosed when I was 29. My illness is linked to a particular path. I had my first symptoms in 1993. I followed a course of care with a dazzling evolution of the disease. It was pericarditis just after my son was born. As a result, I had inflammation in all the joints. My symptoms have been treated. In…

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1236 mots – 10.05.2022

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