1 Making payments directly to medical and educational providers on behalf of loved ones and giving away up to $14,000 per recipient per year gift-tax free are good options for minimizing taxes. 2  Any exemption you use for gifting will reduce the amount you can use for the estate tax.
Posted 3/18/2007 12:45 PM (GMT -6) Others have told you that muscle weakness can be a symptom of lupus. It can also be a symptom of a connecitve tissue disease like the one I have. Mixed connective tissue disease which is a combination of lupus, scleroderma and polymyositis.
To research the causes of Muscle weakness, consider researching the causes of these these diseases that may be similar, or associated with Muscle weakness: 1  Gullian Barre syndrome. 2  Vasculitis. 3  Multiple sclerosis. 4  Poliomyelitis.