Happy New Year my Vit. Friends. It just turned 2003 somewhere in the world.Can you guess what country that is? I feel over seven years younger!! Cheers
I know it can lead to other problems, and feed on the vitilgo. Has anyone been deemed disabled because if it? I don't think I will be able to hold a job it it gets real bad. I am already shutting down.
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It seems to be a common acceptance that vitiligo is an auto-immune disorder, and stress seems to tax our immune systems. What I'm wondering if it matters what KIND of stress. Physical/emotional? The reason I ask is I had close to no vitilig
Check it out. If you are a white person and have no tan in certain areas, you might have more spots than you know about. I waved a blacklight over my body and found an upside-down cowboy hat under my armpit. It's my biggest spot and I didn't even kno
Read more…just wondering if there is anyone close by me.:)
Read more…anyone heard of this? i heard this has helped few people with repigmentation.
Read more…My neighbour has it on his leg for past 20 years it never grew in size he never got any new spots either. I am worried that do i live with the fear for rest of my life that it could go active any time
Read more…Hey Guys! I dont know about u all, but i'm glad fall and winter are approaching.. can now don't look silly wearing long sleeves. So, i now go to my derm once a week for a light for a small white patch next to my lip. He said he can only do the light
Read more…Hi. I am Kayla(19) new to this site and i had a question.
I have had Vitiligo since i was 2. I got it very fast on my legs,stomach,scalp and around my eyes and it hasn't progressed any since i was about 5 its actually going away very slowly around
Read more…I have recently been diagnosed of Anemia, I have always known Pernicious Anemia (lack of Vit B12). Now reading more about Anemia suspects that I have always had it as the symptoms are things I have experienced in the past even before inception of Vit
Read more…I would like to say Goodbye to all here on this forum.I wish you all the best of health. My vit is far out of reach of any doc or medicines. I have become comfortable in my own skin..mentally. I have health issues that are far worse than vit. If I ca
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I went to see my derm this morning, she injected Kenalog on my vitiligo spots which located around my facial area, eye lid, nose. she will do this one a month and has been done for the last five months. My question to you all is has anybod
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I'm no longer a school nurse, I'm a CNA Instructor with a new school! I start off with the class telling them my name & writing the word Vitilligo on the board, pronouncing it & telling them it's not contagious or painful & no I'm no burned! So far t
Read more…I have begun to receive emails from spammers that start the subject line with vitiligo friends then something about a cure. Luckily I have hotmail which sends it to the junkpile and I also have very good security if anything tries to infiltrate my co
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I have been prescribed protopic ointment by my derm to use on my face only, to stop the spreading of vitiligo to my face, i have used it once but it burned my face for hours i couldn't even sleep it was so bad, does anybody know anything abou
Read more…Sharing some information coming from our Dermatologist with the forum purely for informational purposes only.
Our derm always prescribes Protopic. Since, I came to know about Elidel thru this forum, i enquired with the derm regarding the differen
Read more…Soooooo today was "Cow Appreciation" day at Chick-Fil-A. If you dressed up like a cow or something you got a free meal. So I walk up to the counter and look at my cashier and say....."OK...well, I didn't dress up like a cow, but my skin sure does l
Read more…Okay, this is in coordination with my thread about my journey through depigmentation, but this is scary to the point that I felt it warranted its own topic. I have seen a few comments in various threads from other vitiligo patients implying that they
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