Does an injury like twisting your ankle hurt longer for patients with lupus than in healthy people?

Does the joint pain that comes with lupus affect this?
I may be diagnosed soon and I twisted my ankle last week and it's not a bad twist (I play soccer, I know ankle injuries) but it still hurts when I move it. Normally it would hurt for like 1-2 max but it's still a pain a week later. It's not even bruised, so I'm just wondering.

i meant 1-2 days* max sorry

Yes, people with Lupus may need additional healing time. Also, the injured joint can hurt continiously indefinately. My wife hurt her ankle a few years ago and she still has occasional pain that she doesn't 'chalk' up to her 'normal' Lupus pain. Any time there is arthritis in a joint (basically just swelling as there is with Lupus) there is a higher chance that a traumatic injury to that joint will cause more permanent damage.

As far as the person who answered above and went on and on about the meds his relative is on...this isn't true of all Lupus patients. My wife takes about 14 medications a day and only one for pain, Norco. By the way, if you were going to take a narcotic pain med ask for Norco...it's Vicodin with less Tyelonol, which is important for people with Lupus as Tyelonol can cause kidney issues. It sounds like the person above is either seeing a very poor doctor or they really don't have Lupus.

Anyway that wasnt your question so I'll leave it at that. I wish you well.

Patients with lupus tend to take a little longer to heal than patients without the diagnosis. Lupus complicates the healing process the body needs to take to fix anything that may be wrong - sprains, breaks, tears, etc. The inflamation that occurs when you twist an ankle (whether you can see swelling or not) is increased in intensity with people that have lupus (and other diagnosis similar to lupus).
Take it easy and let you body do what it needs to do to get your ankle back to 100%.
Good luck!

Hi Megan - I would say the lupus probably doesn't help the healing process...mom had a sprained ankle and it took about 6 weeks to feel better.

Now on to the lupus.
Megan...my sister was diagnosed with lupus.
I'm not sure that she does have it.
My family has a generation of arthiritis....so
I'm kinds skeptical as to the diagnosis. It's like one doctor said she had it and now all the other doctor's say she does.
Noone seems to want to check for anything else.

My main reason for writing you is this.
They have her on sooooo many medications...
it scares me and NONE help her. They have her
on Morphine[narcotic pain reliever] , Vicodin [narcotic pain reliever], Cymbalta [anti-depressant and pain for people with diabetes??] Lexapro [anti-depressant] plus TEN other presciptions!! per day. She is in constant pain. NONE seem to work. She went to the doctor this week and he prescribed her TWO MORE antidepressants [one for daytime...one for nighttime] that allegedly have pain relievers in them. I'm sooo scared she's going to overdose on something because she is not going to have the presence of mind

She was prescribed a sleeping pill [I'll get back to you with the name] that DID work and allowed her to sleep thru her pain....however, she said she feels like she is in a coma when she takes it and is afraid that she wouldn't hear a smoke detector. I'm going over this week and we're going to experiment. Gonna let her take the pill and fall asleep and set off her alarm clock and try to manually wake her. Because this is the only pill that has given her any relief from the constant pain.

Anyway....my whole venting here is to forwarn you of all the meds they will put you on. There is no definite test for lupus....and doctors are always "practicing" medicine on us!! So please, make sure to advise family members of everything you are on!! Do your own research. Go to drugs.com to double check the interactions of any drugs they give you.

Good luck!!
God bless you.
and i'll get back to you with the sleeping pill that helped her.

the above two answerers said it all ,it takes extra time good luck