I was diagnosed with tumid lupus, but don't have the fatique symptoms or anything else except red patches that are severely itchy on my legs. The doctor gave me a prescription for Temovate cream, but nothing else and said not to worry to much. Does this sound right to others?

Thank you for responding! Don't know if I'm not in the right forum or not - having a tough time finding an active forum.
My "rash" looked more like someone punched me in the chest & left a big bruise - it's cleared up some with the prednisone but hurts sporadically. I have the itchy yucky stuff on both of my upper arms & the temovate cream. I just had a 2nd biopsy - so creams won't cut it because it's too deep. Prednisone has helped some but there's other stuff going on too. I do now have the achy joints along with the fatigue.

I've had Tumid Lupus since the year 2000, and it's been very frustrating finding good information about it. I have the tiredness that comes from Lupus, as well as frequent headaches, intermittent joint pain, and discoid-like scarring on my face and back. I've found that doctors don't really know very much about Lupus in general and almost nothing at all about Tumid Lupus. Make sure to see a specialist, but unless your Lupus symptoms are very bad, that isn't a lot of relief. The drugs that control Lupus are very bad for your renal system, so they generally only give them to people with moderate to bad SLE. I know that's not very encouraging, but it's what I've experienced.