The butterfly is a symbol for Lupus for two different reasons.  It represents the rash that many people develop on their face that resembles a butterfly, but it also represents life, beauty, and hope.

Find a Cure for Lupus

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President Barack Obama
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Lupus is a dangerous disease that can show itself in literally hundreds of different ways.  The only way to know if you have Lupus is to go through testing and treatments.  It isn't talked about as much as other health problems but it is something that needs our attention and needs to be cured.  As of now, all that we can do is treat it and hope for the best.  Please sign this petition to try and get help for the 2 million people in the USA alone that are suffering from Lupus.  For more information, visit www.lupus.org
Lupus is a dangerous disease that can show itself in literally hundreds of different ways.  The only way to know if you have Lupus is to go through testing and treatments.  It isn't talked about as much as other health problems but it is something that needs our attention and needs to be cured.  As of now, all that we can do is treat it and hope for the best.  Please sign this petition to try and get help for the 2 million people in the USA alone that are suffering from Lupus.  For more information, visit www.lupus.org
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We signed the "Find a Cure for Lupus" petition!
# 408:
12:33 pm PST, Feb 9, Melissa Kibel, Montana
It makes it difficult to just be a parent or go to your job or just play with your child who wants your attendtion
# 407:
6:49 am PST, Feb 2, Elfego Baños mendoza, Mexico
porque es importante el estudio de todas las enfermedades y esta aqueja a un amigo.
# 406:
1:28 am PST, Dec 21, Nick Kavvalos, Australia
# 405:
5:46 pm PST, Dec 20, Maria Arvanitellis, Australia
# 404:
5:33 pm PST, Dec 20, Helen Roubis, Australia
My gorgeous young nephew has been living with SLE for about 3 years now. He is 19 years old. It is gut wrenching to see such a beautiful young man fighting with this illness as if going 12 rounds in a boxing match, bruised, tired and sore. I thought I would never hear the word Chemo in my family again. My nephew and the many young lives on this petition sight effected by this disease should live free and healthy not tied up in a cell of pain and counting pills. I believe if both the worlds and great minds of medicine and naturopaths (yes I do have faith in nature..isnt that where the wolf lives?) join forces they WILL find a cure, many, many lives are counting on it.
# 403:
7:49 pm PST, Dec 19, Peter Kofinas, Australia
I was diagnosed with SLE 2 years ago at the age of 16. As a male this is highly unusual and I am tried of the pain associated with my illness. Please help me and many others out there to find a cure.
# 402:
8:24 am PST, Dec 8, Andrea Gonzalez, Mexico
HOLA TENGO 18 AÑOS Y CLARO COMO TODOS AQUI ME GUSTARIA TENER UNA CURA PARA ESTO , ES ALGO MUY DIFICIL Y MAS CUANDO TIENES UNA VIDA POR DELANTE
# 401:
1:34 pm PST, Dec 4, Dominikque Wilder, Virginia
Please find a cure for lupus. My daughter who is 17 years old have lupus and I can't help her. I need help my self becasue I cry every day and im sad every day becasue I love her and I can't help her. PLease please please please find a cure
# 400:
10:47 am PST, Dec 3, Mamoun Abdelrahman, Slovakia
please find a cure for lupus, i know many good friends that are seriously affected by this disease!
# 399:
8:15 am PST, Dec 1, Name not displayed, Mexico
Deseo que se profundice mas el estudio de la enfermedad llamada lupus, pues un ser muy apreciable padece de esta enfermedad y quisiera que se le diesen todas las posivilidades de cura. les mado un cordial saludo. gracias.
# 398:
10:18 am PST, Nov 28, Antonio Evangelista, Mexico
Me solidarizo a la investigacion de la cura de esta enfermedad
# 397:
9:44 am PST, Nov 26, RAMIREZ CRYSTAL, Mexico
# 396:
6:34 am PST, Nov 26, Name not displayed, Mexico
Para lograr la salud de muchas personas con esta extraña enfermedad y a sus familias que la sufren junto con el paciente.
# 395:
11:11 pm PST, Nov 25, Samantha Tello Rodriguez, Mexico
# 394:
6:07 pm PST, Nov 25, Diego Carreño Carreño, Mexico
For more research for lupus and another chronic disease.
# 393:
6:01 pm PST, Nov 25, Antonio Roman lauriano, Mexico
# 392:
2:15 pm PST, Nov 25, Carlos Quintanar, Mexico
a favor del estudio del lupus :)
# 391:
1:32 pm PST, Nov 25, Marcelo Mondragón, Mexico
Me sumo a la peticion para el estudio del lupus
# 390:
10:32 am PST, Nov 25, CARLOS RAMIREZ, Mexico
PLEASE FIND A CURE FOR LUPUS, I HAVE A FRIEND WITH THIS PROBLEM.
# 389:
10:26 am PST, Nov 25, Alma Memije, Mexico
me sumo a la peticion para el estudio del lupus
# 388:
10:25 am PST, Nov 25, JUAN SANCHEZ, Mexico
ME SUMO A LA PETICION DE ESTUDIAR EL LUPUS
# 387:
10:19 am PST, Nov 25, GABRIEL REYES, Mexico
BUENAS TARDES, ME SUMO A LA PETICION AL PRESIDENTE OBAMA PARA INICIAR UNA CAMPAÑA DE ESTUDIO DEL LUPUS.
# 386:
7:37 pm PST, Nov 20, Gabriela Chavez, Mexico
We need to do research in order to avoid secundary effects of medicines and to remain in recess forever.
# 385:
4:44 pm PST, Nov 19, Name not displayed, New York
# 384:
10:49 am PST, Nov 15, Daniel Ballarini, Argentina
# 383:
6:02 am PST, Nov 9, Name not displayed, Spain
I'm 19, and it's been 10 years I'm living with this disease, I gotta say it's hard so please find a cure for it
# 382:
8:21 am PDT, Oct 25, Paige Williams, Canada
My little sister was diagnosed nearly 2 years ago now. She is currently in remission but I saw how bad it got for her. She was in the hospital for a month and could barely move. Please do something to help her, having your life change this drastically at age 12 is too much!
# 381:
5:47 am PDT, Oct 22, Paola Castro, Florida
# 380:
5:37 am PDT, Oct 11, Brian Guadagno, New Jersey
# 379:
4:28 am PDT, Oct 5, Gina Chahla, Lebanon
# 378:
11:54 pm PDT, Oct 3, Kelli Stowe, California
# 377:
7:05 am PDT, Sep 26, Jill Epley, Indiana
my best friend has it. i know what she is going thru. she has good days and bad. i would love her and everybody get cure of it. JILL
# 376:
4:09 am PDT, Sep 26, Princess Roseanna, South Carolina
# 375:
8:26 pm PDT, Sep 25, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 374:
5:16 am PDT, Sep 25, Micki Lossen, Florida
i have lupus. although i make the best out of the situation it amazes me how there are so many people like me and there is no attention or money to find a cure. please help. i wouls like to run with my dogs again, go have a picinic outside with my husband, go out to dinner with my girlfriends instead of bed by 7pm. please help.
# 373:
9:45 pm PDT, Sep 12, Joel Hanson, Minnesota
www.lupuspickup.org. This is a donation foundation for Lupus and they provide you with bags for your used items and they pick up for free.
# 372:
3:43 am PDT, Sep 11, Kim Cornwell, Georgia
Please help me, I was just diagnosed with LSE and I'm devastated, my mother died of the disease.
# 371:
10:09 am PDT, Sep 5, Janette Atkins, California
I have had Lupus for 18 years. More needs to be done to bring attention and awareness to this dieses. Lupus devastates mainly young women’s lives. Please help to find a cure as I missed out on much of my children childhood because of Lupus
# 370:
6:47 pm PDT, Aug 31, Shauna Wilson, Missouri
PLEASE HELP!! I feel like I have been robbed of my life. I was diagnosed 2 years go and now my daughter. Everyone thinks I always look fine so I should be fine. I try to keep up but it seems like I take 2 steps forward and 10 steps back:(
# 369:
12:58 pm PDT, Aug 28, Mary Glass, Virginia
My best friend has lupus and I have seen all of the problems she has had to go through. I hope that there will soon be a solution for her and her family. God Bless everyone!!!
# 368:
9:31 am PDT, Aug 27, Name not displayed, Maryland
my best friend that i have know for 22 yrs is suffering severly with this and i saw her yesterday since shes been back in the hospital and its attacking almost every aspect of her body. and nothing absolutely nothing seems to be helping her. although they say shes doing a little better she gets to come out of the medical surgical ICU.
# 367:
5:46 am PDT, Aug 25, Virginia Riley, Virginia
I was diagnosed in 1996, it has sometimes been a bumpy ride. Please help all of us. It is so hard for even my family to understand after all of theese years that you can feel good and them be in the bed on the same day!! GOD Bless!!!
# 366:
4:23 pm PDT, Aug 24, Nadia Farid, United Kingdom
I was diagnosed with lupus almost two years ago and it has been a living hell for me since then. I do not recognise myself or my life anymore, both having changed so much. But I do believe there must be a way to reverse the course of this horrible debilitating, identity-stealing, disease so that all sufferers can regain their normal lives and vitality, as they were before they got ill. Love to everyone. x
# 365:
7:21 am PDT, Aug 19, Smith David, Nigeria
i am here to help people with problem wethere physical or spiritual
# 364:
1:48 am PDT, Aug 18, Laura Williams, Ohio
I am a single mother of 4 children and I have LUPUS SLE. Two of my children are from my fist marriage and their father is already deceased. They need me i am all they have. WE NEED A CURE and more resourses to make living with LUPUS less stressful on single parent families. My kids shouln't suffer because I have the disease.
# 363:
10:50 pm PDT, Aug 13, Munirah Abu Bakar, Singapore
# 362:
12:09 pm PDT, Aug 12, Bruce Gauldin, Florida
I am one of the 10% of men that contract Lupus ( SLE )It has been an awful experience....people with Lupus have waited patiently for 50 years for some kind of treatment that will reverse Lupus , or at least put us into remission. Please help.
# 361:
5:33 am PDT, Aug 12, Name not displayed, Spain
Mi madre tiene lupus y sufrimos todos muchisimo, lleva toda la vida con la enfermedad y duele mucho verla asi.
# 360:
10:53 pm PDT, Jul 31, Donald Pack, West Virginia
This disease has taken all of my wifes energy and happiness......PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
# 359:
1:15 pm PDT, Jul 29, Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin
# 358:
8:16 am PDT, Jul 28, BIAANI Armendariz, Mexico
porque creo que todas las personas que tenemos lupus merecemos aunque sea una esperanza de que algun dia se tenga una cura para esta enfermedad
# 357:
1:42 pm PDT, Jul 25, Feven Haile, Washington
# 356:
12:39 pm PDT, Jul 21, Beatriz Eliana Montoya Urdinola, Colombia
# 355:
12:01 pm PDT, Jul 20, Liliana María Salazar Saldarriaga, Colombia
# 354:
10:48 am PDT, Jul 20, Name not displayed, United Kingdom
the need is desperate to find the cure as people are dying of this desease everyday, pls help find the cure!!
# 353:
3:09 pm PDT, Jul 19, Name not displayed, Florida
I have lupus, I sure the cure is coming soon
# 352:
5:26 pm PDT, Jul 17, Carmen Rincon, Florida
the most important for humans is health, in mind, , spirit and body,We have to help persons who needs cures for these kinds off sickness.
# 351:
8:27 am PDT, Jul 17, ANGIE JIMENEZ, Colombia
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