Living with Lupus Kidney Disease

I am living with Lupus Kidney Disease. What effective therapeutic measures should we take? I am in hormone, but some doctors say that it has side effects. My protein in urine is ++.
Just as you say, in many countries, hormone is widely applied to treat Lupus Kidney Disease, which is also accompanied by immunosuppressive agent. However, they can just make the symptoms disappear for the time being, which is not complete and systematic.
Lupus Nephritis (Lupus Kidney Disease) is an autoimmune kidney damage, which is caused by the deposition of immune complex in the kidney. The pathological lesion is mainly in renal glomerular disease, which is also often seen in renal tubules and renal mesenchyme. Patients with Lupus Nephritis have red blood cells, white blood cells and protein in urine.
On the basis of the above, specialists created immunotherapy, which is systematic based on the mechanism of Lupus Kidney Disease. It is generally divided into six steps: immune diagnosis, immune clearance, immune inhibit, immune tolerance, immune adjustment and immune protection. Immune diagnosis can help us diagnose how much amount of the immune complex, which can supply clue and evidence for the treatment schedule of doctors in clinic.
In immune clearance, blood purifications are applied, especially plasma exchange, which can effectively clear away the immune complex which exists in the blood, thus reducing damage to the cells and reliving the symptoms such as hematuria and proteinuria and so on. However, as we mentioned, there is still immune complex which deposits on the kidney. What shall we do to clear it away?
In immune adjustment, Chinese Medicine and other medicine which can also benefit Qi (Chinese medical term) and nourish blood, which can also help clear away the immune complex which deposits on to the kidney, thus treating kidney disease fundamentally. Last but not least, such Chinese medicine can also increase the immunity of patients with kidney disease, which can prevent the recurrence of kidney disease from root.