My internal medicine doctor sent me to a RA doctor. He did his tests and sent me to get biopsy of a rash I had all over my neck, chest and back. Came back positive for SLE Lupus - 2019! I haven’t received any additional information since then since I have it I am scared to be out and about now with Covid-19. Hopefully I will schedule some appointments soon, I have been to urgent care and ER for medicine when I cannot take the inflammation and pain.

Didn’t take long for me, sorry forgot one part of your question- thanks to brain fog! 😣

Mine has been a long drawn out process over years

it didnt take too long fortunately, after months of feeling miserable i finally decided to go to the doctors February of 2020 and then got told to go to the ER and i was in the hospital overnight for anemia and needed a blood transfusion because my hemoglobin was at 5.2 and then after that they sent me home. then in july 2020 i went to to doctors office and they said my hemoglobin was at 6 and told me to go to the ER and they check my hemoglobin again and it was at a 5 and they said they couldnt help me and that they had to send me to a bigger hospital which was an hour away so they took me in an ambulance and once i got there my hemoglobin was at 3.5 and they were all panicking and was in so much pain because they couldnt find a blood match to mine because of the weird antibodies in my blood and the next morning they gave me another blood transfusion . and after a week of being in the hospital they came to the conclusion i had lupus

My lupus, took 8 years from my first face butterfly rash before being diagnosed.

It took me one week to get diagnosed. My dermatologist took a biopsy of my scalp and found out I had discoid and then from there they did blood work which showed I the ANA strands indication of lupus.

My test came back negative for lupus.. but I have all the symptoms and the biggest is the butterfly rash and swollen joints. So I’m so confused

I think stress can make it clear up

Biopsy took one week