2010 may be the year that scientists find a cure for vitiligo, or they might not. You don’t have control over their work, but you do have full control over how you live with vitiligo. Will you let it beat you down for another year? Are you going to miss out on social functions because you’re embarrassed to show your skin?
I’m not a big believer in making new years resolutions, but Now is a good time to find a different way of defining what role vitiligo will play in your …

The meeting “Medicine & Me: Vitiligo”, organised jointly with the Vitiligo Society, will bring together patients, their families, caregivers, advocates, patient support groups, clinicians and researchers to discuss Vitiligo. This meeting will focus on initial experiences at diagnosis, psychological aspects of the disease with especial reference to issues of ethnicity, and issues around patient pathways within the NHS.

A couple of months ago I began searching the internet for vitiligo success stories when I came across one that showed me that I was on the right track with my experiment.
Ilana is from Sweden and has been dealing with vitiligo, alopecia, and psoriasis. Her site describes how she stuck with a regiment of taking B12, Folic Acid, and tanning her skin, to re-pigment her skin. What I appreciated most about finding this information was the fact that she showed before and after photo’s which clearly show a 90% success …