I have not been diagnosed yet. I have an appointment with the rhuemotologist(sp) on 4/13 and I am scheduled for surgery 2/19. My primary thinks I have it and I so does my dermotologist but I am waiting the second set of test. I don't know if it matters or not and just wanted to know if anyone else on here has lupus and felt that it made a difference in recovery or the surgery in general. I have not told the surgeon. I am waiting for the second blood test to come back which I should have gotten today. If they come back the same as the first I will obviously tell him but I am hoping its just a vitamin D defiency that they have already put me on meds for.

You are seriously doing yourself an injustice by not telling your surgeon. Lupus has the potential to affect every organ in the body, and while you don't give your age or any other history, at the very least you need a careful heart history done. WLS is important to all of us here, but to undergo elective surgery without giving our doctors all the information they need about us is shortsighted and very unwise. Best of luck.

You are seriously doing yourself an injustice by not telling your surgeon. Lupus has the potential to affect every organ in the body, and while you don't give your age or any other history, at the very least you need a careful heart history done. WLS is important to all of us here, but to undergo elective surgery without giving our doctors all the information they need about us is shortsighted and very unwise. Best of luck.

If my ana's come back elevated again I will tell him. The is a recent thing and it could just be a fluck with the test. If it is confirmed I will most certainly tell him. I just don't want to jump the gun and the first test results be wrong. I just want to know if anyone else has it and how their surgeries went. But rest assured if it is confirmed I will tell even if I can't have the surgery. I'm just hoping they were wrong and never have to worry about it. And I just turned 40 and have no other health issues besides the Vitamin D definciency. My pcp said today wouldn't it be great if that was all that was wrong. Because since I have been on 40,000 iu a day of Vitamin D I feel great. So it possible a misdignoses.

ANA is not very specific for lupus, you might wanna ask for anti-ds DNA or anti-Sm.

ANA is not very specific for lupus, you might wanna ask for anti-ds DNA or anti-Sm.

See there... I may not even have it... I really have done no research at all about it. I have a rash and elevated ANA's and chronic pain. However, the chronic pain has greatly improved since my Vit D went up. So they reran test last week said they would have results today and biposied the rash. Don't really know what that would tell them but I was just wanting to get prepared with the sleeve if it comes back as a possibility again. If I can even have the sleeve if they continue down tht path.

See there... I may not even have it... I really have done no research at all about it. I have a rash and elevated ANA's and chronic pain. However, the chronic pain has greatly improved since my Vit D went up. So they reran test last week said they would have results today and biposied the rash. Don't really know what that would tell them but I was just wanting to get prepared with the sleeve if it comes back as a possibility again. If I can even have the sleeve if they continue down tht path.

I DO NOT have Lupus. All the test results came back negative and my bioposy came back as eczema(sp). so I am having the surgery on 2/19/2010.