Sometimes I learn a lot about what people are curious about by reading the keywords that they typed into a search engine like Google or Yahoo that eventually brought them to this site. I noticed yesterday that someone had done a search on the words lupus, dizziness, and sweating.

I noticed this immediately because it is something my wife has had trouble with for the last month or so. Typically, the sweating comes first and the dizziness follows a bit later. Now when she mentions that she’s sweating, I try and get her to sit down and rest.

The sweating thing is relatively new for her. Obviously someone else with lupus is experiencing the same symptoms, so I thought I would throw it out there for discussion.

On an unrelated note, I’ve swapped out my old polling plugin for a new one, and should have a new poll up soon. This plugin is a lot more powerful and flexible, but requires more extensive setup.

The results of the last poll show that the majority of people reading this blog have lupus, if the poll is a valid sample of the readership. This wasn’t a big surprise. I had suspected that was the case. The results were part of the reason I changed the layout, because my wife has been saying for some time that the site wasn’t very pretty and looked too manly. I’m not sure what was manly about it. It’s not like I had powertools and race cars on the sidebars. I do think I will change the tagline, since I want the site to be concerned with everyone who is affected by lupus.
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