Hello Emanon~ Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I'm terribly sorry to hear about your rapid progression of vitiligo. Very distressing for you. Are you treating with light therapy and/or oral steroids? Was there another event that could have contributed to sudden causation? It's also hard to know if it was accumulative from a third shot or if the impact of the initial series was just catching up as auto immune conditions can take years to manifest.

I'm very interested to hear more and about your practitioner's observations in other patients too. My physician said that they always have 5% of patients who have active vitiligo, and although some became active following shots, they didn't have an increase in the 5% active group. (So they are not drawing this connection). I'm curious if your physician is seeing more active vitiligo spread overall now or in a few rare incidents? Regardless it's still happened to you.

It seems plausible given the robust immune response can cause strong cytokine reactions in some. However overall it's apparently not a concern. A year ago I'd checked VAERS reports and at that time, read about 50 reports of vitiligo progressing. Would be interesting to see now.

I wonder if the Novavax protein vaccine could have the same impact. Different technology, but the same spike protein so perhaps. It's hard to know how to proceed.