living with vitiligo?

Novelisto
Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:34:32 +0000

<<hugs>> honey. That’s hard to hear at any age, let alone in the high school years. I’ve known a lot of people ove the years with this. They were married, had children, lived an ordinary life. That will be in your future (if you want.) </hugs>

You might have a blood test to check your levels of the vitamins mentioned by samiamy. Just because you’ve been taking a multi doesn’t mean your body is absorbing the nutrients…if your vitamin even has those. Some everyday vitamins don’t have a lot of folic acid which is why March of Dimes recommends women in childbearing years take an extra supplement (it has been seen that birth defects occur much less frequently in the children of women who take folic acid before conception.) Furthermore, some vitamins are not absorbed if taken in conjunction with certain other substances…the grapefruit juice effect has been studied quite a bit. Taking vitamins or medications with grapefruit juice can lessen their effectiveness by tremendous amounts.

My daughter has a large pale birthmark that spreads like smoke over her back and shoulder and down her arm. It is quite definitely a different color from the rest of her and is not small and brown like most birthmarks. When she is with a new group of kids – swimming, wearing a spaghetti strap top – she gets comments and looks. She turns it off with a smile and a shrug and soon, since they’re not getting anything back, they forget about it and accept her for who she is. I tell her that plenty of people are ‘perfect’ on the outside and have small and shriveled souls. Work on perfecting your inside and nothing on the outside will matter. Eleanor Roosevelt was no beauty queen!