Ep 116 It's never lupus (except this time)

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Even if you haven’t watched the TV show House MD, you’re probably familiar with the phrase “it’s never lupus”. But have you stopped to consider why it’s never lupus? Or why lupus is so often suspected in the first case? Well, dear listeners, this episode aims to get at the heart of those questions, which is easier said than done. Like many other autoimmune diseases, lupus erythematosus continues to baffle, but we know a lot more now than we used to. In this episode, we take you through that knowledge as best we can and then trace the steps of how we came to first recognize, then describe, and then treat lupus, a journey that takes us through how we learned about autoimmunity in the first place. If you’ve ever been curious about how lupus got its name (wolf bite, anyone?) or what the pregnancy compensation hypothesis could mean for this and other autoimmune diseases, then this is the episode for you.

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0:00.0	I'm Kara Clank.
0:01.0	And I'm Lisa Trigger.
0:02.6	We're comedians and hosts of That's Messed Up, an SVU podcast on exactly right.
0:07.4	Every Tuesday we take you through an episode of Law and Order SVU, the crime it's based
0:11.2	on and chat with celebs guests from the episode.
0:13.7	Listen to That's Messed Up on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:20.1	This is Justin from The Generation Why and we're doing a four-part series unraveling the
0:24.3	story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held at
0:29.2	Riker's Island for three years without trial.
0:32.2	This story is about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system.
0:36.3	Listen to Generation Why on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.2	My name is Sarah Johnson and I have had Lupus since I was a teenager.
0:48.3	When I was 14, 15, I started having this series of fevers and they were kind of a couple
0:56.1	days a week once a month and then all of a sudden they were for a whole week each month
1:03.5	and then they just the time in between them started getting smaller and smaller.
1:08.0	I couldn't find any source of infection or reason that I would be having any fevers.
1:13.3	For some reason, these fevers would get extremely high in like one, two, one, oh three.
1:20.2	I would be really nauseous.
1:22.2	I wasn't able to eat.
1:23.2	I wasn't really able to keep food down or liquid down and I ate a lot of popsicles because
1:29.7	it was the only thing that I could eat for a long time.
1:32.6	With these fevers would come a lot of soreness.
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