My first Lupus flare was in 1998 while I was child bearing when I became seriously ill and the doctors where note sure what they were dealing with just yet. The diagnosis followed two years later when I threw a blood clot to the rt lung and had much of the symptomology of Lupus along with lab test/markers of the disease. Since then there has been many different flares and different levels of how critical they were. More recently I was diagnosed with Kindey disease from the Lupus. I am managing the Lupus and other illnesses that are in realation to SLE.