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Microneedling for Pigment Loss From Suspected Vitiligo
So I have these spreading white patches on my hands, fingers and feet. I have some other issues due to sun exposure - so called basal cell carcinoma - which I have been successfully treating using topical antifungal treatments both natural and pharmaceutical.
Of course the first thing I thought was tinea versicolor on account of the prevalence of fungal overgrowth on sun exposed skin. And the first thing I tried was antifungal agents - coconut oil, oil of oregano, iodine and clotrimazole - but that was getting me nowhere slow.
One day recently I burned myself contacting a hot pan on one of the light skin patches. As the burn healed I noticed that the skin was healing in normal color, not in the bleached white.
Well, I'll be dipped in butter. I gave some thought to this, about how the injured dermis was healing with "normal" programming, not "defective" programming. The burn was small and not really serious, maybe a first degree burn. The blister was deep enough but not deep enough to really scar. Like a chicken pox blister but no deeper.
I had bought a microneedling kit a couple years ago to try out on my face but was never really happy with the process and results. But I thought about how the needles inflict tiny wounds on the skin and encourage the replacement of new better performing cells in the healing process.
I googled "Microneedling" as treatment for skin hypo- and hyper-pigmentation and by golly, it's used for both.
I test drove the 0.5mm needles on a few patches and within a week, there were dots of normal colored skin forming inside the bleached areas. I tested again with the 1mm needles - more of a rashy response from the skin but again, new color filling in.
I'm liking this very much. Will soon have the left side filled in will start on the right side soon.
