What are the commonest symptoms of lupus?
Lupus can mimic many different diseases. This is very important because most of those diseases are more common than lupus. For example, severe tiredness is a very common symptom of lupus but is also a symptom of other conditions such as diabetes, anaemia, underactive thyroid glands or fibromyalgia (see arc booklet ‘Fibromyalgia’), all of which occur more commonly than lupus does. A person who feels very tired may become worried that he or she has lupus, but in fact is much more likely to be tired for some other reason.
