Hi there and welome!

...Keeping in mind that the lupus anticoagulant and the anticardiolipin are both antiphospholipids antibodies (aps)...Read the following, I think it explains things very well.

Taken from www.Medicinenet.Com

the antiphospholipid syndrome is a disorder of the immune system that is characterized by excessive clotting of blood and/or certain complications of pregnancy (premature miscarriages, unexplained fetal death, or premature birth) and antiphospholipid antibodies (cardiolipin or lupus anticoagulant antibodies). Patients with antiphospholipid syndrome have developed abnormal symptoms while having antiphospholipid antibodies detectable in the blood.

Antiphospholipid syndrome is also called the phospholipid antibody syndrome. Antiphospholipid syndrome has been referred to as hughes syndrome in honor of the doctor who first described it.
It is important to note that antiphospholipid antibodies can also be found in the blood of individuals without any disease process. In fact, antiphospholipid antibodies have been reported in approximately 2 percent of the normal population. Harmless antiphospholipid antibodies can be detected in the blood for a brief period occasionally in association with a wide variety of conditions, including bacterial, viral (hepatitis, hiv), and parasite (malaria) infections. Certain drugs can cause antiphospholipid antibodies to be produced in the blood, including antibiotics, cocaine, hydralazine, procainamide, and quinine.

Nevertheless, the antiphospholipid antibody (a protein) is not considered a normal blood protein and has been found in patients to be associated with a number of illnesses. These illnesses include abnormal clotting (thrombosis) of arteries (stroke, infarction) and/or veins (phlebitis), premature miscarriages (spontaneous abortions), abnormally low blood platelet counts (thrombocytopenia), purplish mottling discoloration of the skin (livedo reticularis), migraine headaches, and a rare form of inflammation of the nervous tissue of the brain or spinal cord, called transverse myelitis. Antiphospholipid antibodies have also been detected in over half of patients with the immune disease systemic lupus erythematosus.

Researchers are recently also finding that there are patients with slowly progressive memory problems and patients with a form of "atypical multiple sclerosis" and antiphospholipid antibodies detectable in their blood.

I hope this helped! Hugs,
ladybrannon

Hi all, I was watching montel williams the other day and someone said they knew of a person who had both. I was confussed, I didn't know you could have both lupus and ms?

Sharon

Hello,
i was first dxd with ms. Then sle lupus, fibromyalgia, tmj, sjogrens. Later the ms was changed to possible ms (at that point who cares ) because I was dxd with hughes (aniphospholid blood disorder). Hughes has many of the same symptoms as ms. They are all autoimmune disorders. When your immune system starts to go crazy it is very common for you to develope more autoimmune disorders. Sle that affects the central nervous system causes you to have many of the same symptoms as ms. It does not hurt to get several opinions from other drs before you start the injection treatments for ms. Educate yourself and make sure you ask a lot of questions. I like to test my drs knowledge ! You need to educate yourself in order to partcipate in your treatment. Let me know how you do ! Daisy3

I was diagnosed with M.S.last year.Brain mri And cervical spine both show demielinating.Now after having problems with toes was diagnosed with Raynaud and after more bloodwork (ana and some others they say i'm positive for lupus?i don't know what to think right now!

I have ms and lupus and i'm 32 yrs old and declining fast!!!!
i need help!!! and fast please.
my 14 yr daughter was tested for lupus and it's postive.

please help