Last Updated on 25th January 2019 by Caroline Haye
I have found myself offering a lot of advice to other vitiligo sufferers since re-pigmenting unexpectedly 3 years ago. Most of that advice has been in response to specific questions about my treatment. But I also have another piece of advice to offer based on my own experience and that is to have photos taken of your skin. Â During the decades when my vitiligo was so widespread and – as I saw it – disfiguring, I avoided having any pictures taken that showed my white patches. Â Consequently, I had no “before” pictures – quite simply because it never occurred to me that my vitiligo would ever do anything but continue to spread.
 When I started to see freckles appearing all over my depigmented skin I (reluctantly still!) allowed the photo on the left to be taken so that I would have a record of the improvement.  I was much happier posing for the right hand picture (about a year later) for obvious reasons.  But my point is, no matter how severe or long-term your vitiligo may be, don’t assume that it will always be that way. There may come a time when you wish you had some really good (bad) “before” pictures so you can show how dramatically your skin has improved!
