Snoop Dogg's 24 year old
daughter suffered a severe
stroke last week. Cori Broadus
shared the news on her Instagram
story previously, she had been
outspoken about being diagnosed
with lupus when she was six
years old. It's a chronic
autoimmune disease. It causes
various parts of the body. Last
September, Snoop's daughter
spoke to people about her lupus
battle and how she got off her
holistic approach. Joining us
now is Anne Marie Blackadder,
the CEO of the Lupus Gulf Coast
chapter, to discuss the dangers
of quitting medications and
going all natural without
consulting doctors. First.
Welcome. Thanks for being here.
Good morning. Obviously you
can't speak directly to this
position an and we have to be
careful with that. Right But but
who wants to change up their
approach a little bit and how to
safely go about that? You know,
lupus is first of all lupus is
real. Yeah I think that's the
hardest thing for people to kind
of grab a hold of. And it can be
life taking if it goes untreated
want to talk about medications
or any changes to those
medications is always, always,
always consult with your main
doctor, which in this case is
likely a rheumatologist to make
sure that they, as your
quarterback of care, are. Thank
you CJ are actually being able
to manage what steps you're
taking. We have to keep up with
managing our disease regardless
of how we choose to use our drug
interaction. And I just want to
wait, what is lupus? I've heard
about that. So a lot of times
it's known for the butterfly
rash across the face, but then
so much more so much more. Like
we mentioned earlier, pain is
body parts. It does a dear
friend of ours calls it the
equal opportunity organ
destroyer. So So a stroke is
Believe it or not. You might
remember our friend Cheryl. Yes.
And Cheryl actually suffered a
stroke as well. Um, before she
was diagnosed with lupus. It's
part of what lupus can do by
attacking nervous system, the
heart, kidneys, the lungs, the
skin, the hair. It's a nasty
little sticky widget. As as we
often call it. So treatment is
important. And to get to
treatment you need diagnosis. So
do some of the treatments out
life threatening symptoms
besides the painful ones life
threatening like strokes. There
are options to suppress the
Hydroxychloroquine methotrexate,
which you may know that is a
chemotherapy, a chemotherapy
drug. And those are not those
There's three drugs made for
lupus. Only three made for
lupus. When there's millions of
people living with lupus in the
US today, primary women,
primarily women of color and
primarily childbearing age,
those treatments specifically
for lupus can help keep the
symptoms at bay. If they work
for you. So this is these been
listas and all of that of the
world are able to help us thrive
despite lupus managing how we
eat is good for anybody. Sure. I
would love to say I don't eat
girl Scout cookies, but I'm
pretty sure Girl Scout cookie
season is coming up, right?
Right. And that's a personal
choice that I get to make of
whether or not I. I eat those,
I'm going to eat them. Yeah. So
I think we all have to manage
those choices for ourselves.
Yeah. One thing that, that is so
frustrating for patients every
lupus patient I've ever talked
to, sometimes they went for
years without the correct
diagnosis because it can be
things. What's your best advice
for somebody who has some of the
symptoms that you mentioned
earlier about about how to how
to start this treatment plan and
get it going. And thank you so
much for asking that question,
because truthfully, all we have
to do is ask your doctor, what
if it's lupus? It's just that
simple. If you have a butterfly
rash, extreme fatigue, extreme
unilateral swollen joints, you
want to ask your doctor, what if
it's lupus and we have a lupus
warrior right now in a hospital
system without rheumatology and
we are trying desperately to get
her to a hospital with
rheumatology service because she
has lupus SLE. So it's not just
we have to advocate for
ourselves. We actually need our
doctors to understand and lupus
know that lupus is real and help
us advocate it as well to get
the treatment that all lupus
warriors deserve. Well, I highly
encourage anybody to just check
out your foundation. You do so