Personal experience

If you feel that vitiligo has held you back from finding a partner you may be interested to know that a new TV programme is in the planning which will tell the stories of some of Britain’s singletons whose love lives have been affected by a medical condition or body issue. The […]

For most of my life #vitiligo has been a distressing condition that has caused me a lot of anguish and – at times – depression and self pity.  But ever since I started to repigment a couple of years ago I have found it fascinating as well.  In particular, the […]

One of the things I always found most distressing about having vitiligo on my face (thankfully now gone) was the white patches round my eyes that gave me the look of a deer caught in the headlights.  Whenever I passed a mirror and caught sight of myself, both my reflection […]

It’s been about 2 years now since my vitiligo started to disappear (or my pigment started to re-appear, which is how I tend to think of it). I’m not quite 100% there yet, but very nearly (and I’m still seeing a gradual improvement in the couple of white patches I […]

I just came across this great vitiligo post from the New York Times website commenting on an article published in February last year.  I’ve copied and posted it below in case the link doesn’t work… February 25, 2010 12:17 am  This article served to remind me of my disappointment with […]

Thinking  back to how my vitiligo developed, it was quite literally a patchy process!  There were years when it progressed slowly, times when it seemed stable, and frightening and depressing times when new lesions appeared almost daily and I was terrified to look in a mirror. The onset of these […]

This is the kind of wet Monday morning in early September that brings back memories of going back to school… the smell of wet coats, soggy wool, chalk dust and gym shoes… and that sinking feeling!!!  Or is that just me?!How different from yesterday’s warm sunshine.  I spent the whole […]