This question is for the ones who have reached 100% depigmentation or very close to it. When you were going through the blotchy skin phase and only you know the hard,painful time you had. Now your either one skin color again or very close to it, If a slow process cure/ treatment was discovered would anyone be willing to go back through the blotchy skin in order to regain all your pigments? Or would you stay as is? I dont mean to offend anyone and I apologize in advance if I did. I have seen people who have depigment 100% and they are beautiful. They carry their vitiligo very well. I was just wondering would they stay the the way they are or send yourself
back through the spotty phase but knowing the final outcome.
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I was asked this question today and my answer would be "NO", I'll rather stay the light complexion that I am". I know my reasoning will be different then others but as a black women I only spent 3 years of my life brown skin ( birth to 3yrs old) so I have really no idea what its like to be completely brown. My norm was the blotchy skin and harsh contrast and that’s what I took as being my normal which could not be easily hidden.
Now I’m adjusting/coping with my "new" light skin or lack of pigment, so I would not want to go through another change. Life has enough issues and stress, so I would like for my skin to the last thing on my list I have to deal with.
I have been thinking about your question ever since you posted it, and I wanted to let you know I read it. This brings up so many feelings for me. I would love to have my skin color back, but instantly or close to it! I went through over 50 years of gradual loss of my pigments and if I had to do the reverse to look tan again, I don't think it would happen in my lifetime. But for the people who are younger and not too advanced in patches of vitiligo, it would be good for them. No, I would not want to go through all those difficult years again. I am at peace with my skin being pale, at least most of the time. My vitiligo definitely shaped my character. With my spiritual growth I came to believe that vitiligo is just a small part of who I am. I am a child of God, a spiritual being having a human experience. And I so dislike the label of "Vitiligan" that I have heard expressed here and other places. Sorry, you got more than you asked for, Lucy. Thanks for the questions.
God bless you,
Patty
I am Ali first, a whole lot of other stuff in between, and a vitiligo patient somewhere towards the bottom. It's not that I don't care, it's that I realized a long time ago that I was spending entirely too much time focused on something that was such a source of pain in my life and completely ignoring everything that was so good.