Question:
Expressive aphasia was the result of a massive flare which resultedin my feeling as though I was enshrouded in mists which made communicationdifficult . It only lifted little by little and now, 18 months later I feelthat communication is 75% returned. My research into cerebritis, which Ihave (the lupus is attacking my brain) tells me that this expresssiveaphasia is definitely a result of lupus attacking the brain. And that someor all of it may be the result of organic brain damage due to theinflamation, and the scars that form as a result.

I too am furious that so much of my vocabulary was taken from me! But I amnoticing that I can get some of it back. Now if I can just remember it!

can anyone help???

Answer: how do you look for this?How do you ask a doctor to look for this? (mine has recommended aneurologist but the neuro just looked at me and said "classicmigraines/clusters. We could do an MRI but it won't show anythingexcept maybe a little inflammation." If the headaches are gone (or atleast are much less frequent now) can I expect that I am actuallydoing better and therefore have even less chance of finding anythingwith testing?

I forgot to mention that my neurologist associates the expressive aphasia,and other cognitive difficulties like memory problems with white places inthe brain where the blood flow is either low or absent! Scarey huh! Thiscan be seen on a SPECT scan. And it sure did show on mine when I had aflare and was goofy as can be. His research shows that also when a flareor symptoms of lupus are not showing but cognitive symptoms are, then it isthe result of these blood flow problems--which is also associated withmigraines--and will still show up as white spaces in the brain.

I write this with a really bad headache. My smarts are way down. I couldbarely help my son with his homework. Thank heaven all l had to do was askhim true/false questions where the answers were already marked!