Earlier this year some promising research was reported which offers vitiligo sufferers hope of a possible vaccination to reverse the autoimmune response thought to be responsible for the condition. Like everyone else with vitiligo, I long for the day when a definitive SAFE cure is found and I will be […]
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I’ve chatted with a lot of vitiligo sufferers over the years since telling my story on this site. And so many of them have digestive problems that I’m convinced malabsorption of nutrients is a key trigger of vitiligo… If not the root cause of it. I have suffered with Irritable […]
Snow White’s Seven Patches I wish there had been a vitiligo story for children like Snow White’s Seven Patches when I was a child, trying to come to terms with my patchy skin. This delightful modern fairytale puts a contemporary twist on the classic Brothers Grimm story and has as […]
Most mainstream doctors seem to dismiss out of hand the idea that there is any link between vitiligo and nutrition. My vitiligo success, based on taking nutritional supplements, is ample proof to me of the connection between the two. To ignore the obvious cause and effect between what we put […]
I have long suspected that the cause of my vitiligo was a compromised digestive system and, sure enough, when I started supplementing my diet my IBS symptoms improved along with my dramatic re-pigmentation. I knew that candida yeast overgrowth was a problem and found that taking a good probiotic […]
Feeling the creative urge, as I sometimes do, I have written the following freestyle poem in the hope that it may be as therapeutic to read as it was to write. It might baffle some readers but I think that anyone who has had widespread vitiligo will recognise the feelings […]
Like most vitiligo people out there who read a lot on the subject, I’ve been aware for some time that oxidative stress is one of the likely causes of this skin condition – which is why I take green superfoods containing huge doses of antioxidants. Most of us know that […]
I just placed an order today for Xenca Boost and Bronze which I use for my vitiligo (Boost for re-pigmentation and Bronze to add a little bit of cosmetic colour to my remaining few white patches) and they are offering 2 for 1 at the moment, so it is a […]
Yipee! Here comes the sun again! OK, so the large expanses of skin all over my body that were previously pure white are still not all completely tanned yet. But the mottled effect only looks like ordinary freckles. The main thing is that I feel normal and am happy to […]
I’m intrigued to have just read something about nutrition and vitiligo that I don’t remember ever having seen before (just as I was beginning to think I’d read and memorised everything!) It’s in an article by Dr Sandy Milgraum, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, East Brunswick, […]
A vitiligo friend sent me a link the other day to some writings by Edgar Cayce who apparently was an early holistic health pioneer. They make very interesting reading and I wonder how many other vitiligo sufferers his theories strike a chord with, apart from me. Certainly, I have always had […]
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 […]
… never, never … never give in! For years I had no real expectation of regaining my skin colour because I had been told by the medical establishment that there was no cure and had been led to believe that my lost pigment was just that – lost for ever. […]
I was wondering what the collective noun for a group of vitiligo sufferers would be… Would we be called a lesion?!!
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 […]
I wonder what happened to all the publicity about black pepper as a possible cure for vitiligo? There was a flurry of interest in this about 3 years ago, but not much since. Has anyone had any success with this, or indeed with any other spice (as opposed to herbs […]
I re-read one of my favourite pieces of poetry the other day and it struck me that it is every bit as therapeutic as any medicine. Maybe reading it for yourself will be a brand new experience – or maybe you are familiar with its famous words… In which case, I’d […]
Given that a key ingredient in Boost (one of the supplements that has helped me to re-pigment most of my vitiigo patches over the past couple of years) is copper, I was very interested to read recently that drinking water that has been stored in copper containers is a tried […]
Looking at our cat the other day, I realised that we humans are the only species that seem to have a problem with being more than one colour at once!!!
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 […]