Hi Creative Mind, In responce to your question, I have been living with Lupus for many years now, I was diagnosed with it in 1999, and my Rhumatologist thinks that I have been living with it for longer that that, but in all of the Doctors I have talked to, litrature I have read, I have heard there are a few different types of Lupus, well it's either 3 or 4 that I have heard of and read about, and the type that is drug induced of the drugs that I have read that can cause this, I don't remember any of them being any type of pain medication, narcotic or non narcotic. Usually with the drug induced type its said that once you came off of the medication that you are taking, the symptoms go away. But I am not and can not be 100% sure. Go the webmd.com web site, and usually you can find out just about anything and everthing relating medically that you want to, it has helped me out many times. Hope this helped.