How do you know when you are getting new spots? Do they start out as small dots that get bigger or does it look more like your pigment is just starting to fade out? My son has both and I am trying to decide if these are all areas that are starting to depigment? This is the first time since diagnosis that I am dealing with new areas and it is so stressful! :( Thanks in advance for your help!!
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I would say my spots began to slowly depigment first. Typically a spot will appear faint, then grow progressively whiter with time. However, the time it takes to fade seems to vary and depend on other factors. (stress?) I know the spots are losing color slowly because I will only start to notice them when summer arrives and it is lighter outside.
Like most others have responded, mine seem to appear in two varieties. Some (and less frequently) spots appear suddenly and pretty white. But lately (and primarily) patches will appear larger, slightly lighter, and then fade to white. Sometimes this takes weeks, sometimes just days.
With my vitiligo (everyone might be different) before I lose my pigmentation the area starts fading out. Even though It's not obviously visible to the others at all but I can still see when it starts fading out because I know how it works with me quite well!
About having a small spot of Vit patch and thinking it's going to get larger?! It doesn't always work that way, I mean my first Vit pacthes on my finger tips and eyelids started nearly 15 years ago and they just gone the level under my nails and my eyelids aren't spreaded aswell! So it stopped for 8 years and I remember having all my breasts covered in Vit pacth over a night that was 2 months after I had my first baby! hormones! Try not to think about it too much! It can be quite annoying sometimes but at least it's not a life threatening illness!
Your very welcome! I also believe we are getting closer to a cure! 30% is not bad remember this is auto immune issue which means it can reverse itself!!!
Christie, Hang in there! When I talked to my derm he said that he had many patients that this reversed it self! I am hoping my body gets itself together and reverses and or I hope that Clinual finds that the study they are doing works and they cure this thing!!
Thanks William! I have also heard that about 30% of vit cases reverse themselves. I pray so hard that my son is one of the lucky ones!!! I also feel that there will one day be a cure!! Good luck to you and thanks so much for your support!
Thanks for your help guys! I think my son has both types, so I am treating them all. I am finding so many new spots and it is so discouraging. I feel like I want to bathe him in creams!!! lol
good question, it was my question too, i think i have both patterns, a few month ago i was diagnosed with vitiligo, there was two small dots on my body that got bigger, and now one of them is getting smaller and curing without any medicine, but i feel a new spot appearing on my face is second type, i mean it looks like its starting to fade out as a whole area, nobody could diagnosed it well now but i feel its getting whiter!
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Hi Christie,
With my vitiligo (everyone might be different) before I lose my pigmentation the area starts fading out. Even though It's not obviously visible to the others at all but I can still see when it starts fading out because I know how it works with me quite well!
About having a small spot of Vit patch and thinking it's going to get larger?! It doesn't always work that way, I mean my first Vit pacthes on my finger tips and eyelids started nearly 15 years ago and they just gone the level under my nails and my eyelids aren't spreaded aswell! So it stopped for 8 years and I remember having all my breasts covered in Vit pacth over a night that was 2 months after I had my first baby! hormones! Try not to think about it too much! It can be quite annoying sometimes but at least it's not a life threatening illness!
No probs hun! xx
Thanks William! I have also heard that about 30% of vit cases reverse themselves. I pray so hard that my son is one of the lucky ones!!! I also feel that there will one day be a cure!! Good luck to you and thanks so much for your support!
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