WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE LUPUS If you're newly

WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE LUPUS If you're newly diagnosed with Lupus, things I wish people told me not to do. Coming from someone who literally made all these mistakes, and I promise the last one is a game changer. Number one do not go outside without sunscreen or some kind of sun protective hat or shirt. You will get burnt when you are outside in the full sunlight and it will not be pleasant. Also, don't slack on warm clothes in the winter, whether that be gloves, hat, a nice winter coat, because you are a lot more susceptible to the cold temperatures, especially to experience Raynaud's symptoms. You need to be bundled up at all times. If it's under 40 degrees. This one honestly might be the most important. Do not try to keep track of all in your head. I know when you're newly diagnosed you just wanna keep track of everything in your head and it feels like you'll remember it all. You will not. By the time you get to your doctor, you will blank on three weeks worth of stuff. What I do now is I found this app that's made specifically for people and other chronic conditions, and I just tell it all of my symptoms. I text it like it's a friend I'm experiencing and it tracks it all for me. And then before my appointment, it takes all that compiled information in a nice clean PDF report that I can actually give to my doctor so we can spend more time talking about my symptoms and less time just trying to recall all of them. Trust me, this would have saved so many useless appointments early on. That's it. Thank me later, but if you have any more useful in the comments.