Skin-picking disorder (dermatillomania or excoriation disorder) and autoimmune disorders often go together. With skin picking ...

It can be a real pain in the neck. Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly attacks ...

After two decades of surgeries, prescriptions, and debilitating symptoms, this mom discovered a treatment that significantly ...

This article was reviewed by Knox Beasley, MD. You might associate autoimmune conditions with symptoms like skin disease, chronic pain, and fatigue. A less-discussed symptom of autoimmune diseases?

When Lisa experienced increasingly severe fatigue and joint pain, she visited five doctors over three years before receiving an autoimmune diagnosis. Her story isn’t unusual—most autoimmune conditions ...

Linear IgA bullous dermatosis (LABD) is an autoimmune disease that causes blisters. People with LABD can develop blisters in the skin and the mucous membranes in their mouth, genitals, and eyelids.

Studies have reported cases of people developing autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus after undergoing gastric bypass surgery. But research is mixed as to whether there’s a link.

Doctor after doctor misdiagnosed or shrugged off Ruth Wilson’s rashes, swelling, fevers and severe pain for six years. She saved her life by begging for one more test in an emergency room about to ...

Nightmares and hallucinations are much more common in lupus and other autoimmune diseases than previously realized. Some people with these diseases reported experiencing depression, disrupted sleep, ...

While some aspects of our health are more visible than others, many become evident through symptoms that we can see from the outside. That’s why organs such as our hair, skin and nails are so useful ...