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 […]
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I’ve received a request from the makers of Channel 4’s ‘The Food Hospital’ series. Perhaps you saw it last year? The idea is based on the practice of dietetics, so the series explores the possible health benefits of everyday foods in targeting a wide range of medical conditions and symptoms. […]
I have suffered with digestive problems ever since I was a baby and started developing vitiligo from toddler age onwards. From early adulthood I also developed arthritis. Either I’m unlucky or there is a link! Interestingly, the nutritional supplements I have been taking for the past two and a half […]
Sorry folks – this video was live when the blog was posted but has since disappeared due to a technical hitch! Rather than try to reinstate it on the page, here is the link to it on YouTube. It is an easy to understand explanation of what is so far […]
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 […]
Maybe not – but money talks I’ll start by reassuring you that I really am not a conspiracy theorist. I just get a bit angry sometimes about the fact that modern medicine is so drug-focussed instead of being health-focussed. Vitiligo patients are only too familiar with the dismissive reaction that […]
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 […]
The acid test for vitiligo? Like many people with vitiligo, I read a lot about the condition on the internet. In fact, I read so much that I sometimes find myself going round in ever decreasing circles… And occasionally meeting myself coming back! I’m always particularly interested in finding out […]
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 […]
Don’t let anyone tell you that there is no effective treatment for vitiligo or that topical treatments and phototherapy are the only choices open to us. Nutritional therapies also have a good track record in controlling the condition. I am just one of many people around the world with vitiligo to […]
_I just found this lovely poem by a young lady called Kimberly on the home page of The American Vitiligo Research Foundation website. I love it… Beautiful I am beautiful You may think I’m different But I am not What people say or do Won’t hurt me And if people […]
Top scoring foods for vitiligo recovery We have all heard about the benefits of consuming antioxidants in our food and nutritional supplements. Virtually everyone on the planet has heard about unstable compounds called “oxygen free radicals”. And we know that these cause damage to our body’s cells. We also know […]
Vitiligo For years, longing long years I mourned my smooth, young honey-hued, freckle-filled summers. My tears, pander-eyed tears Trickled down the furtive, long-sleeved, camouflaged decades. I hoped hopeless hopes That the pallid,white-lashed jig-saw stranger in the mirror should leave. My fears, shadowy fears Multiplied, forming stark splashes across the carefree […]