Insomnia continues to be an issue here. Nothing seems to work and my wife has gotten into a cycle of very little sleep for a few days followed by a severe crash, accompanied by a massive mood swing. We will be visiting her rheumatologist at UCLA in a couple of weeks, so we are putting together a list of questions.

My own mood has been pretty bad lately, and I’m having a hard time keeping my dysthymia under control. It seems like everything always happens at once.

However, I do find encouragement from the slow accumulation of registered users on here on lupusfamily.com. It would be really great to create a community of friends that understand how lupus can effect your life. Sometimes it’s difficult to talk to people who don’t live with it everyday. If you have a topic you would like to write about, let me know. I am going to upgrade all registered users to contributors, so write a post on something related to lupus and submit it for publishing. If you are interested, register as a user and get writing.