My doctors recently called me and said after looking at my blood tests, there is a 95% chance I have lupus. This explains everything that has been going on with me the past few years. I've been overweight for the majority of my life (I'm 16) but I have an extremely active lifestyle. In 2007-08, I started to experience knee pain, which I thought was arthritis (runs in the family). I have been having extremely painful migraines since late 2008. Now this past October, I have been having excruciating back pain, with no known cause.
To go on with my question, I have been taking karate for 5-1/2 years and I don't want to stop. But the pain is too extreme to even go to school sometimes. If the doctors are right and I do have lupus, what are the chances of me continuing karate? Also, what are the treatments that doctors can provide for this medical condition?
To go on with my question, I have been taking karate for 5-1/2 years and I don't want to stop. But the pain is too extreme to even go to school sometimes. If the doctors are right and I do have lupus, what are the chances of me continuing karate? Also, what are the treatments that doctors can provide for this medical condition?