Comments on: Did Anna Nicole have Lupus?

By: Mother With Lupus

Mother With Lupus — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:18:26 +0000

I am in absolute shock at how the media has built her up to tear her apart in death! The sad thing is that her daughter will have to grow up seeing all of this and who is really benifitting here…..the tabloids and the media? If they took the time to find out WHAT was really wrong with her which could have been LUPUS (“SLE”), than they would understand a little as to why she was the way she was which explains so much. Do a GOOGLE search on LUPUS or look up The Lupus Foundation of America where there is a wealth of information about it!!!!!!

I can be very sympathetic to this as I suffer myself from Lupus (fibro, IC, APS, Sjogren’s, Raynaud’s, OA, Asthma, Neuro-Cardiongenic Syncope, Common Variable Immunodeficiency (“CVID”), GERD, Anemia, IBS and I’m also a Breast Cancer survivor) — as do many of my friends that I have acquired on the Internet and my doctors offices. No one can judge anyone else for what they chose to deal with as far as treatment for their chronic pain or illnesses unless they have been there themselves!

Once I was privey to the fact that she could have had Lupus, it gave me a better understanding as to why she was the way she was.

Lupus is such a multi-faceted disease and can make you seem like you are in a “drunken stupor” which can be from kidney involvement and/or central nervous system involvement. A great number of lupus patients have major organ involvement. Most doctors can not treat infection, kidney, heart and CNS involvement because there really isn’t anything to treat it. All of it is systematic treatment not a cure. I was treated with Cytoxan for my kidneys – didn’t do much….I am being treated every 3 weeks for 3-consecutive days for infection with IVIG (gammaglobulin – human plasma) and taking many medications to treat the other symptoms of my lupus. I have a medaport in and will be getting these treatments for the rest of my life! I have been in and out of the hospital since my diagnosis in 2000. Currently, my monthly medical expenses to include doctors and medicines are approximately $18k!!

She may have abused drugs at some some point in her life, but who hasn’t tried drugs? No one should pass judgment!! She was not a drug addict if she was taking medications for Lupus. Lupus patients take a significant amount of medications to symptomatically treat the symptoms so that we can function on a daily basis but even then it is a constant struggle. As Dr. Lahita said on Entertainment Tonight the other night that Methadone is used to treat chronic pain. It is also less addictive than many of the other pain medications that are used to treat chronic pain although like pain meds it can mask what is actually going on. I was on Imuran and Cellcept which also masked what was going on with me for my kidneys. These medications are used for transplant patients.

In adddition, I am APPAULLED at the fact that people from the Hollywood scene (fellow actors and coat-string wanna be’s) as well are not being more compassionate. This Scientology crap is unbelieveable to me to even think that this was a quick fix to a cure that isn’t. There is NO CURE FOR LUPUS!!!!

My doctors combine both traditional and hollistic medicines in the treatment of my Lupus. If people took the time to sit, learn and listen — then we could all work together to find a cure for this dreadful disease. I have almost died 3 times because of Lupus. I have 2 small chldren that I am striving to live for every day so that they have a mother!

If a cure is found for Lupus, a cure will be found for so many other diseases, i.e., MS, parkinsons, AIDS, etc.!!!! Please, please help all of us that are suffering from this disease in finding a cure.

Thank you.

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By: solange

solange — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:42:10 +0000

I agree with Boopie. Can’t hide the facts.

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By: Jeannette

Jeannette — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:33:54 +0000

The typical drug treatment for Lupus is high doses of steroids, like prednisone. Long term use of these drugs, while controlling the worst parts of the disease, has rather noticeable side-effects, including hair loss and a tell-tale, very obvious swelling of the face, causing what you might call “chipmunk cheeks,” even though the person has not actually gained overall body-weight and mass. Since ANS does not appear to have suffered from such side-effects, it’s unlikely that she was being treated for Lupus, which in any case can’t be helped by pain-killers or Methadone.

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By: xiaoecho

xiaoecho — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:34:47 +0000

‘I see some of you are smoking crack before you log on to this website’

Speak for yourself Boopie

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By: Poor Boopie

Poor Boopie — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:18:16 +0000

I see some of you are smoking crack before you log on to this website.
How do we know she was a bad mother?
Uhhhhhhh….. let’s see……

1. Did drugs with Daniel.
2. Let Daniel rot in the morgue for over a month while she was “marrying” Howard Stern and partying it up.
3. Supposedly used methadone while pregnant with Dannielynn.

Any one of these things would qualify her as a bad mother in my book. Christ on a stick! I’m tired of hearing about this “poor unfortunate woman”. Bury the bitch and let’s move onto the next ANS in waiting: Britney Spears.

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By: gg

gg — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:37:48 +0000

She was an embarrassing sloppy, high, slut. Sorry but that DOES make her a bad mother. Wake up people. Obviously those who think she was a “good mother” never saw her show where she abused everybody and lied her ass off.

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By: TishDish

TishDish — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:05:57 +0000

I really don’t think she was a horrible mother. I truly believe that she and Daniel had a very close relationship and you can’t have that without some good parenting skills. However, I think that ANS had some serious mental health issues and God knows what else. The real victim here is the baby. No matter how much money she comes into, her life will be shrouded in this cloud of mystery surrounding her mother’s death and the death of her brother. I wish the child well and hope she is able to have a secure and stable future despite this whole fucked up situation.

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By: marlene Sandford

marlene Sandford — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:35 +0000

Oh, the price we pay for fame. The fact that she could be worth a lot beans someday is what put an end to ANS. It was her beastly way’s that killed beauty in the end.

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By: countrybabe

countrybabe — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:01:24 +0000

Xiao..I agree with you totally apparently the woman went around having un protected sex with all the daddies and the miscarriages. She could have had anything.

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By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:09:36 +0000

The source is Frank Rodriguez, confirmed by Howard K Stern to be a close friend of ANS:
http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/27/people_late_great/main2521822.shtml??source=RSS&attr=_2521822

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