I Have Lupus Should I have Kids Now?

Question

Should I have kids now and get married now that I am strong young and healthy?

Answer 1

Is your lupus flaring very badly? If not, I would say that now would be a good time unless you are heading into a remission period. You won't be able to take most pain-killers while you are pregnant and that can be quite a transition.

Pregnancy can make lupus symptoms worse in the first trimester. In the second trimester, your body makes cortisone, which can actually make your lupus "better" until you give birth, and then you need to watch out for cortisone "withdrawls" which can make your symptoms worse.

Know that any pregnancy you have is going to be considered high risk and that you'll be watched very carefully by your doctor.

Email me if you want and let me know what you decide/how things are going: [e-mail]

Answer 2

I think you can pass that on to the offspring. I'd check with your doctor. Ethical dilemma. You want kids, but do you want them to live with lupus?

Up to you. If there's no risk, then definitely have them when you're young and healthy.

Answer 3

I have been involved with a company that makes very effective and very useful nutritional products. I am not sure if I am allowed to speak abou them in this forum.

However, I have met persons who said they had Lupus and they also said that using the products of this company had helped them more than anything else they tried. They said "It helped them in that they showed no signs of lupus while using certain products this company makes on a daily basis. If you are interested e-mail me seperately and I shall send you info about the company and product.

It is a multi level marketing company and to some that is a draw back or a negative thing. But it is the only multi level marketing company I know of in the health and nutrition field that was started and is run by experts in health and nutrition rather than experts in markleting. They are really lousey at marketing when compared to other compaines because they are reserved. They focus much more on the quality and effectiveness of what they make than they do on effective ways of selling it.

Recently they have become more elaborate in their attempts to market. Many of their customers are from rural and less sophisticated environments, but almost every one who uses their products reports the same benefits for various products. It is deffinately some thing worth looking into.

The fellow that started the company is a mocro biologist and he is a world expert in certain fields. When he started the company about thirty years ago he wrote a book that was sort of like a thesis and he said to the medical comunity and the world that the medical communities focus on a pathology of disease based on germs and viral infections might be incorrect. He spoke about free radical damage and anti-oxidants. He made some claims about the effectiveness of the right sort of anti-oxidants in preventing and healing certain diseases that many medical experts did not like and did not agree with.

Scientists working for these persons and trying to prove HIm a nut did a lot of food based nutritional studies to prove him wrong. These types of studies take a long time ten to fifteen years because many persons have to stick to certain diets for that long to see if one way of eating is better, worse or the same as some other way of eating.

During the last fifteen years one of those studies after another which were done to prove him wrong turned out to provce him correct. You have heard a lto about anti-oxidants in the last fifteen years. Well that is why those studies were done. Of course they proved him so right that they had to be published.

Many companies sell "anti-oxidants' but they are not effective or they do not work as well as anti-oxidant products he makes. The reason is the lack of quality of what they use to make their anti-oxidants. They are missing a set of ideas that they need in the production of nutient tablets that make their products less effective than his. Even the biggest and best name brands are not as good as his are.

You would be surprised to lern how hard it is to share these truths with most persons. It is almost as if their is a veil over most of our eyes and we can not see the truth no matter what.

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Answer 4

Talk it over with your Dr. - You might be able to pull it off, you need to get a realistic idea of the potential problems you run into and go from there. Good Luck

PLEASE NOTE*

Lupus is not caused by food allergies!!!!!....It gets me so mad to see crap like that posted. Also, "Herbal" and "Natural" remedies are pure unadulterated crap - if they work the effect is psychological.

Answer 5

I think you should live life to the fullest while you are here. You must remember that, depending on how long you have had it and how severe it is, that having children could kill you even sooner if you are in a weakened state. I hope you also have a very loving man/father who will be there to pick your broken hearted children, as well as himself up and help each other to go on without you.

You will be in my thoughts and prayers. I am so sorry you are ill. Take care and best wishes.

Answer 6

never base life decisions on disease or feelings of desperation.
do you have to have kids?.
get healthy as you can be and adjust first.
you can always find a man or woman and adopt later.
think how much better off the world would be if we adopted all the starving and orphaned kids and didn't make so many new babies to overpopulate.
don't worry.

Answer 7

Yes. Also, Lupus is not hereditary:

http://www.netwellness.org/question.cfm/17458.htm

Answer 8

Hi Zudith

Here are some remedies and information to correct your health.

Cause
Food allergies (there is a 100 percent correlation between lupus and food allergies), rheumatoid arthritis, other connective tissue diseases, parasites, candidiasis, bowel problems, and digestive enzyme deficiencies can create symptoms that mimic or exacerbate SLE. Migraines, epilepsy, and psychoses must also be ruled out before a proper course of treatment can be decided upon.

Both forms of lupus primarily strike young women (90% of cases) and young children.

The drugs hydralazine, procainamide, and beta blockers can cause false-positive readings of SLE, and can also produce a lupus-like condition that disappears when the drugs are no longer taken. Birth control pills and environmental stresses can also exacerbate lupus symptoms.


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Natural Cures

Diet: Eat an organic, whole foods diet. Also avoid overeating and limit your intake of dairy, beef products, and polyunsaturated oils. Also screen for food allergies and avoid all foods to which you are allergic or sensitive. Increase your intake of vegetables, especially green, yellow, and orange, and consume non-farm-raised fish several times a week.

Herbs: Supplementation with Swedish bitters with each meal can increase hydrochloric acid production. Also drink an infusion of nettle twice a day. Other useful herbs include echinacea, goldenseal, licorice, pau d`arco, and red clover

Hydrotherapy: Hydrotherapy is the application of water, ice, steam and hot and cold temperatures to maintain and restore health. Treatments include full body immersion, steam baths, saunas, sitz baths, colonic irrigation and the application of hot and/or cold compresses. Hydrotherapy is effective for treating a wide range of conditions and can easily be used in the home as part of a self-care program. Many Naturopathic Physicians, Physical Therapists and Day Spas use Hydrotherapy as part of treatment. We suggest several at-home hydrotherapy treatments.
Hyperthermia: Hyperthermia involves artificially creating fever in the body for the purpose of boosting immune function. Hyperthermia can be a highly effective method of eliminating toxins and heavy metals, as well as infectious bacteria and viruses that cannot survive in elevated body temperatures. We suggest several at-home hyperthermia treatments.

*Purified water is essential for any hydrotherapy or hyperthermia treatment. Remedies for Treating Chlorinated Bath Water offers clear instructions and recommendations.

Juice Therapy: Drink the juice of carrot, celery, flaxseed oil, black currant oil, and garlic.

Nutritional Supplementation: Hydrochloric acid (HCL) deficiency is common in people with lupus, therefore HCL supplements with each meal is advised. Other useful nutrients include vitamin A with beta carotene, vitamin C and bioflavonoids, vitamin B complex, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, calcium, magnesium, selenium, zinc, essential fatty acids, proteolytic enzymes taken away from meals, digestive enzymes taken with meals, and the amino acids L-cysteine, L-methionine, and L-cystine.

Topical Treatment: PABA cream applied topically can help ease symptoms.

Alternative Professional Care
If your symptoms persist despite the above measures, seek the help of a qualified health professional. The following professional care therapies have all been shown to be useful for treating Lupus: Acupuncture, Biofeedback Training, Bodywork, Cell Therapy, Chelation Therapy, Detoxification Therapy, Environmental Medicine, Enzyme Therapy, Guided Imagery, Homeopathy, Juice Therapy, Light Therapy, Magnetic Field Therapy, Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine, Oxygen Therapy, Qigong, Rolfing, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Best of health to you.

Cheers

Answer 9

I dont know. It is your decision so u can do what u wanna do. I hope you make the right decision.

Answer 10

lupus, ok