Just wanted to say hello to everyone out there (: I have recently been diagnosed with this and only have it in my hair and the doctor can't tell if its affecting my skin yet. I have been around this all my life with my great grandmother (rip) and gra
Read more…OK, so this summer the vitiligo on my arms has been spreading, and this time, the patches have inflamed edges as they spread. Due to chemical allergies, I started using natural zinc oxide sunscreens.
COULD THIS VITILIGO SPREAD ACCOMPANIED BY RAISED,
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I've had vitiligo for 15 years. It's segmental and on the right side of my forehead, with speckles on my nose. I was excited to have the new vitiligo treatment: excimer laser, but during months of only one spec of pigment it seemed, it mad
Read more…Hello I have recently discovered that green concealer by conceal Rx bought at Ulta works well for me when i wear cover makeup on my face, I had a issue with make up looking too reddish/orange, but using the concealer helps a lot...I use Iman stick fo
Read more…My 11 year old daughter is due for a meningitis and Tdap vaccines. I know there has been discussion about the flu vaccine and triggering or worsening vitiligo, but does anyone not get the recommended vaccines for fear of this as well? We have had a
Read more…Our son has been using protopic for 8 months now. We are only putting it on his face and neck. The results have been close to amazing.
The question is how long do you continue using protopic after pigment has been regained?
Although more than one do
Read more…I recently started using hydroquinone cream to treat the patches of repigmentation on my cheeks and now spreading to my forehead, ears and neck. My dermatologist has suggested "monobenzone" as a more effective treatment. However, he has no prior expe
Read more…Friends I am using Lukoskin medicine just from 15 days.Since I see my spots daily so I couldn't see the difference. But today my friends told me that my spots are decreasing.So I am writing this post. This medicine is the patent of DRDO , an indian g
Read more…Hi, I was diagnosed with vitiligo 3 weeks ago, I went to the Dr after noticing several light patches of skin on my neck which were growing. The patches were not milky white, just lighter than my skin ( I am biracial, African and white british). The f
Read more…There is one extensive study that was carried out on 47 adults with slow spreading Vitiligo were assigned to be given 120 mg per day of a standardized extract of Ginkgo Biloba containing 9.6 mg of ginkgo flavon glycosides per day or a similar lookin
Read more…Hi all! I just bought protopic for my face. Firstly I got extremely scared reading the information that comes with, since it talks about increased risk of cancer and other things.
Secondly, it talks about limiting sun exposure and any oral psoralen t
Read more…Southwestern Ohio Vitiligo Friends is planning a meeting for the one of the last two weekends of August or one of the first two weekends in September.
Last year we met in Cincinnati and had a wonderful picnic, about 25-30 people showed up. We drove fr
I'm a Black American. I have vitiligo since I was 8. Today, I have no family because I was rejected for being a monster. I was almost murdered on a pubic transportation for having this disease. Vitiligo has prevent me from being with people in the pu
Read more…I got a tattoo on my wrist of a small heart - which did not have vitiligo to begin with - but after like a week, around the skin began turning white and the black ink has faded nastily. I was thinking about going over it again but I'm not sure if thi
Read more…We have been using protopic for almost a year and have gotten amazing results. Recently we stopped using it only because we were never comfortable using it the first place and it seemed as though the results were not improving beyond the point we had
Read more…happy vitiligo awareness day guys!!! I think its great that there is a page where people who dont really have any one else quite like them can meet people who are having the same problems. Even though my vitiligo has not grown verry deep on my face m
Read more…I wanted to share a little bit about my son. He started to get the white patches at the end of his kindergarten year. At that time we didn't know what was going on. He began to get picked on by a boy in school. He was told many times that he had
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