skin pigmentation ?????

[milesysgirl]

hi i have some white patches on my shoulder which have appeared in the last couple of monthes i went to the doctors this am and he has reffered me to the hospital skin consultant he didnt really say much and he got a needle type thing and pricked my white bits with it ?????? anyone with any ideas or experience with this ?

Mileysgirl - sorry to disappoint you but I think you are setting too much store by this tanning bulb thing. I dont doubt it helps but is probably a long process. I did look into laser treatment a while ago but this too requires a vast amount of sessions to make a slight difference. Your best option is to check out camouflage make-up such as dermablend. They have brought out a new range and you can get the sample kit for about £8 (inc postage) so you can best match up your skin tone. It is a sort of heavy waterproof foundation. I have vitiligo and have had since the age of 4. I resented having to spend the whole of my childhood smothered in factor 40 and sitting in the shade. When I was in my twenties I worked abroad in very hot climates and just buggered the vitiligo and sunbathed profusely. As a result a lot of my white patches have repigmented apart from a few although the repigmentation has not been even, rather like a freckly patch. I imagine this tanning bulb would do the same as the sun but without the harmful UV rays. However, I did work abroad for 8 years so it was not an overnight process.

thanks trifle thanks for that i think at the mo im just looking into all the possibilities ,i am intrested in the make up though where can you get it from??

Google Dermablend and it will come up with a number of options. Check out www.garden.co.uk. Also type 'dermablend samples' into Ebay and it will come up with the same stuff but much cheaper.

Interesting thread.. my ds (5) has vitiligo - it's not super obvious, but he is pretty pale all over, then it looks like his neck & back of his legs are always grubby (sometimes true of course )

We are v careful with suncream - paed'n did not seem at all bothered, and I didn't find any of the autoimmune theories you guys are mentioning when I looked it up a lot last yr.

Guess we will just wait & see - in a way he's lucky as it is not patchy, so less notceable, but I hope he doesn't mind too much when he is older...

Tickle, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. They did buy the tanning bed. My brother uses it as well for his psoriasis.

Tickle, have you been to a skin consultant ? perhaps you should see what they say about autoimmune links ?

Also the info I gave was from the vertilgo website, perhaps you missed it in your search ?

Thanks mm I will look it up

hi, just thought id let you know i found those sites very helpfull also i checked on e-bay and thats where ill get my colour kit from its so much cheaper . also do you go to the hospital every so often for check ups ??? was any of you offered any treatmeant i read about some skin grafts and light treatmeant that they can do??

well I've just got to go back to have a blood test for thyroid in about March. I'm apparently being put on the waiting list for the light treatment - don't hold out much hope for it though. I am going to look at e-bay for the dermablend though...I do look better when skin around my eyes is the same colour as my face !

Interesting point about the perfume. I thought mine was a result of wearing perfume (from the night before) in the sun & some sort of reaction producing this. I did ask, but apparently not the case.

When I was in Australia I lived with a girl who had pale patches on her back - these were a fungi, which the dr's over there said were from sun, sea salt & suncream.

I always shower off any aftersun cream, before I go in the sun & only buy greenpeople products in case there is any link to chemicals reacting etc.