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Vitiligo

Posted by Thethomkat2u @thomkat, Oct 15, 2021

I posted this on the autoimmune ... but would like some feed back.. If this angle into vitilago has studied or trails done.
For Chronic dehydration , like myself having no thirst drive,or others as Michael Jackson whom forced dehydration limiting fluids to avoid heavy perspiration while performing plus countless others .
Could toxins ( that most would sweat out)
Store up (build up) from not sweating, cause an autoimmune response and attack the Melanin in our skin in part be a cause for an increase in Vitilgo,?
Has this been studied?

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Rosemary, Volunteer Mentor | @rosemarya | Apr 27, 2022
In reply to @marla1 "I had small signs of vitiligo (auto immune condition) starting 6 months prior to first Phyzer..." + (show)
@marla1

I had small signs of vitiligo (auto immune condition) starting 6 months prior to first Phyzer mRNA vaccine. There were very limited discolorations in a few places. Since the mRNA vaccine the vitiligo has been quite active and spreading over my body. I cannot be sure of causation but was concerned it has been so active and hesitant to take further mRNA at this time given my already over active and confused immune system. I would be grateful to hear from others' experience and any relevant data. I had hoped a protein vaccine would make it this country and possibly have less of an inflammatory response. Thank you

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@marla1, I have vitiligo. I have had 4 doses of the pfizer Covid19 vaccine and have not seen any change in my vitiligo.
I have had it since childhood and this autoimmune skin condition is hereditary on my mom’s family. I am a transplant recipient and I take immunosuppressant medicines. I have observed over my life that it seems to show up/disappear in spurts.

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marla1 | @marla1 | Apr 28, 2022

Hi Rosemary, thanks for sharing. Glad it did not irritate your vitiligo. Take good care.

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emanon | @emanon | Aug 25, 2022
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@marla1

I had small signs of vitiligo (auto immune condition) starting 6 months prior to first Phyzer mRNA vaccine. There were very limited discolorations in a few places. Since the mRNA vaccine the vitiligo has been quite active and spreading over my body. I cannot be sure of causation but was concerned it has been so active and hesitant to take further mRNA at this time given my already over active and confused immune system. I would be grateful to hear from others' experience and any relevant data. I had hoped a protein vaccine would make it this country and possibly have less of an inflammatory response. Thank you

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Hi Marla. Just wanted to share I had the same experience. I’ve had vitiligo for around a decade, had been very stable, then following my third mRNA vaccination I lost ~40% of my body’s pigmentation within a few weeks. Same happened to a family member of mine. Don’t think there will ever be formal causation, but my general practitioner and specialist have seen this in other patients as well. Sorry to hear you were also affected!

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marla1 | @marla1 | Aug 30, 2022
In reply to @emanon "Hi Marla. Just wanted to share I had the same experience. I’ve had vitiligo for around..." + (show)
@emanon

Hi Marla. Just wanted to share I had the same experience. I’ve had vitiligo for around a decade, had been very stable, then following my third mRNA vaccination I lost ~40% of my body’s pigmentation within a few weeks. Same happened to a family member of mine. Don’t think there will ever be formal causation, but my general practitioner and specialist have seen this in other patients as well. Sorry to hear you were also affected!

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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.

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bustrbrwn22 | @bustrbrwn22 | Aug 30, 2022

@marla1. What a succinct and easy to digest technical explanation you wrote!

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marla1 | @marla1 | Aug 30, 2022
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@marla1. What a succinct and easy to digest technical explanation you wrote!

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That is very thoughtful to say! Thank you so much!

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marla1 | @marla1 | Sep 6, 2022

Any others have similar experiences with vitiligo activation (over active immune system) and vaccines?

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