living with vitiligo?

LilyMoon
Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:40:02 +0000

My s has vitiligo too. He has had it for a long time and accepts it. People used to ask what it was and he would give different answers depending on who did the asking and what their purpose was in asking. He is very comfortable with it now and actually, recently after many years, we have seen some repigmenting occuring.

It is much more noticable when he is tan and he is tan a lot because he goes to a warm weather school. He is Ok with it. It’s important to use sunscreen.

Where is yours occuring? My s has it on his arm and shoulder. It seems to have begun when he was young and broke his arm…maybe the trauma of the break and the x-rays caused it. We don’t really know. It spread a bit from arm to shoulder and stopped.