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A woman who spent 20 years in a catatonic state woke up after doctors treated her lupus - and her case could hold key to curing others of psychosis
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Posted on 06/02/2023 5:34:34 PM PDT by algore

A woman trapped in her own mind for two decades has woken up and is able to be with her family again thanks to a revolutionary new treatment.

April Burrell was just a 21 in 1995 when she suffered a traumatic event while studying accountancy at university in Maryland, US, that left her suffering from constant visual and auditory hallucinations.

She was diagnosed with a severe form of schizophrenia, a devastating mental illness that dramatically alters sufferers' sense of reality.

April spent the next 20 years trapped in a cationic state, unable to recognise her family and having her every need cared for in a psychiatric hospital in New York.

Until one day, she woke up thanks to a team of medics who treated her for lupus — a disorder that they discovered was causing her immune system to attack her brain.

Her doctors hope the discovery could help treat hundreds of patients in a similar situation.

'She would just stare and just stand there,' he said. 'She wouldn't shower, she wouldn't go outside, she wouldn't smile, she wouldn't laugh. And the nursing staff had to physically manoeuvre her.'

Almost two decades later Professor Markx would meet April again

Shocked there had been no improvement in 20 years, Professor Markx spoke to her family and gathered a team of experts to run a full analysis on her condition. Professor Sander Markx, director of precision psychiatry at Columbia University, was one of the team of medics who treated the woman, and said there could be other 'forgotten' patients who could be similarly helped

The process was long and arduous. April needed to undergo immunotherapy treatment using powerful drugs to bring her immune system back into line.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: catatonic; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; immunesystem; lupus; tcoyh
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There may be some hope of putting the Biden on trial after all
1 posted on 06/02/2023 5:34:34 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

All this because the husband finally put the toilet seat down...


2 posted on 06/02/2023 5:36:54 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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My grandfather had lupus. Took them forever to figure out because "men don't get lupus". Uhhhh yeah, they do.
3 posted on 06/02/2023 5:39:39 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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To: algore
The cause is not fully understood, but a viral infection (very likely), some medications (Could be), sunlight (doubtful), puberty and menopause are all thought to be possible causes.

When a sixty year old man gets it you can pretty much rule out puberty and menopause.

At least, back in the days when doctors were sane you could.

4 posted on 06/02/2023 5:44:08 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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“suffered a traumatic event while studying accountancy at university in Maryland”

Studying accounting will do that


5 posted on 06/02/2023 5:45:24 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: algore

I have 2 girl friends that have lupus & they take hydroxychloroquine.


6 posted on 06/02/2023 5:54:23 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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Had a relative with lupus and takes hydroxychloroquine and all the patients and staff in her long tern mental ward caught Covid except her.


7 posted on 06/02/2023 5:59:11 PM PDT by alternatives?
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Actually she heard Joe Biden was President and the shock snapped her right out of it.


8 posted on 06/02/2023 5:59:36 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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9 posted on 06/02/2023 6:02:27 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Ha!

I have a buddy that takes it for arthritis. He never got the rona


10 posted on 06/02/2023 6:04:25 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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“Actually she heard Joe Biden was President and the shock snapped her right out of it.”

Hell, she probably voted for him.


11 posted on 06/02/2023 6:16:55 PM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Amazing. This article gives the impression that the woman's lupus was cured, but the disease is still incurable. However, modern treatments can help a lot, as this case demonstrates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupus

I'm a little surprised that lupus has still not been cured. Forty years ago the disease was a hot study subject for plenty of smart, motivated medical/biology graduate students who were going to find that cure and establish their professional credentials. I'm sure they pushed hard, but SLE has pushed back harder. So far.

12 posted on 06/02/2023 6:34:48 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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13 posted on 06/02/2023 6:39:42 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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Same for my friend! Arthritis and takes HCQ, but never got CoVid. One of the few I know who never got it.


14 posted on 06/02/2023 6:40:43 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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“ suffered a traumatic event while studying accountancy at university in Maryland”

Studying accounting will do that
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It was probably the mandatory statistics courses. ;-)


15 posted on 06/02/2023 6:43:10 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’)
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It's never lupus

I understand the sentiment, but "never" is not quite right.

16 posted on 06/02/2023 6:52:55 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: thinden

Same with my 75 year old female cousin. She’s been on HCQ for decades.


17 posted on 06/02/2023 6:56:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I have lupus & this is a mind blowing story. That’s an absolute myth that men don’t get lupus. When I first got very sick they thought I might have the black plague & they isolated me. It was a small town. It’s a crazy disease because it mimics so many other things.


18 posted on 06/02/2023 7:39:24 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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That could have done it!


19 posted on 06/02/2023 7:56:53 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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20 posted on 06/02/2023 7:59:03 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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