How can I help "cure" Vitiligo [details inside]?

I work with a guy 15 to 20 years ago and he had it all over; hands, face, neck, chest and feet.

It was unpredictable where it would show next. He was in his early forties when I met him and he had it from his mid-twenties.

If UV treatment is supposed to help, I prescribe a trip to the beach.

At the very least, you’ll get a trip to the beach out of it.

Well if it’s autoimmune which I think is the case, that means it’s the result of your immune system wrongly attacking your own body, so bolstering it is not what you want to do. Serious autoimmune diseases like MS and Crohn’s are often treated with immunosuppressants in fact. But since having a working immune system is more important than even skin tone, I doubt any doctor would suggest this for vitiligo. Best of luck.

I mean, that said, exercise and eating healthy is a good idea for everybody, regardless of autoimmunity problems.

You can’t cure it. You can’t reverse it.

It can stop. The problem is is that it’s an idiopathic disease—there’s no obvious cause for it.

I have vitiligo. It was about 13 years ago now when it started. In my case, I think it was likely stress related. I got myself worked up over a relationship and some other decisions I made and one day I find a white spot of hair on my eyebrow—and then elsewhere, and then my legs, and then new spot would appear every so often.

After reading up about it and the supposed treatments, I realised there was nothing I could do about it, and any treatment would likely be a waste of time and just cause more stress.

I still remember one on my forearm that began as thin white parallel lines which then spread and merged together.

After my vitiligo spread for the best part of a year—it just stopped. Maybe it helped that my circumstances changed and I was able to relax a lot more. Maybe it just stopped for no real reason at all. I’ve no way of knowing.

So, yes—it’s possible for vitiligo to stop. Why, when, or how—I have no idea.