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What are you trying to find?
- I found a new white spot or patchWhat it can look like, what else it could be, and questions for an appointment.
- I want to understand vitiligoWhy the color goes, whether it spreads, and where to start.
- I am here for psoriasisThe current treatment and appointment guides, and the light-treatment pages it shares with vitiligo.
- I want to compare treatment optionsThe evidence, limits, burden and approval status, side by side.
- I am looking into narrowband UVBWhat it is, what a course involves, and the questions to bring with you.
- I am deciding between home and clinicTravel, oversight, privacy, space and cost, compared without a preferred answer.
- I need help with cost or insuranceHow coverage works, prior authorization, and what to do after a denial.
- This is affecting more than my skinStaring, dating, school, covering up, and where to get support.
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Start here
The two condition hubs, and the page that helps you pick one.
- Home home
- Vitiligo white patches, loss of skin color
- Psoriasis plaques, scaly patches
- Is this patch vitiligo? white spot, is this vitiligo, pale patch, tinea versicolor
Understanding vitiligo
What it is, why the color goes, whether it spreads, and how much of you it covers.
- What Vitiligo is autoimmune, melanocytes, cause
- How repigmentation works color coming back, repigment
- White hairs in a patch white hair, grey hair, leukotrichia, poliosis, eyelashes, eyebrows, white hair in a patch
- Will it spread? will vitiligo spread, vitiligo spreading, active vitiligo, unstable vitiligo, vitiligo stability, koebner, isomorphic response, new patches after an injury, tattoo
- The genital area genital vitiligo, genitals, groin, private parts, intimate areas, vulva, penis, is it an STD, lichen sclerosus
- How extensive is yours? how much, body surface, VASI
- What to expect what happens next, outlook
- Vitiligo and associated health vitiligo autoimmune disease, vitiligo thyroid, vitiligo hereditary, vitiligo hair, mucosal vitiligo, thyroid, other conditions
- Pregnancy and family planning pregnant, breastfeeding, inherited, will my child get it
- Living with Vitiligo day to day
- What makes you burn faster photosensitivity, medicines and sun, St John’s wort, lime burn, margarita burn, phytophotodermatitis, psoralen
- Sunscreen, clothing and hats sunscreen, SPF, UPF, sun protective clothing, rash guard, hats, sunburn prevention, tanning, suntan
- The UV index and where you are UV index, latitude, altitude, equator, different countries, travel and sun, snow and sand, cloudy days
- Black lights and neon rooms black light, neon, Wood lamp, fluorescence, nightclubs, glow, bowling alleys
Choosing a treatment
The options side by side, what has been tested together, and reviewing a plan.
- Treatment options options, what can I do
- Compare treatment options side by side, side effects, where it is approved, FDA approved
- What has been tested together combination, together, cream plus light
- Other paths, including no treatment no treatment, do nothing, stop treatment
- When a plan needs review is it working, change
Creams and ointments
Everything you put on the skin, and what the record says about each one.
- Topical treatments topical treatments, cream, ointment, Opzelura, Protopic, Elidel
- Steroid creams steroid, clobetasol, mometasone, cortisone
- Protopic (tacrolimus) Protopic, tacrolimus ointment
- Elidel (pimecrolimus) Elidel, pimecrolimus cream
- Opzelura (ruxolitinib) cream Opzelura, ruxolitinib cream, JAK inhibitor
- Calcipotriene Dovonex, vitamin D cream
Pills and whole-body medicines
Medicines taken by mouth, including the ones still being studied.
- Pills and whole-body treatments pills, oral treatment, systemic treatment, whole-body medicine, oral JAK inhibitor
- Rinvoq (upadacitinib) Rinvoq, upadacitinib, oral JAK inhibitor, systemic vitiligo treatment
- Litfulo (ritlecitinib) Litfulo, ritlecitinib, investigational oral JAK medicine, TRANQUILLO vitiligo trial
- Povorcitinib povorcitinib, investigational JAK1 medicine, STOP-V1, STOP-V2
Light treatment
Narrowband UVB, excimer and PUVA, what a course involves, and where it works best.
- When NB-UVB is considered light treatment, narrowband UVB, NB-UVB, switch from topical, excimer, PUVA, light box, lamp
- Phototherapy by body area face, hands, feet, which areas respond
- About narrowband UVB NB-UVB, narrowband UVB, phototherapy, light treatment
- How long a course takes
- Getting a prescription
- Reading your prescribed dose
- When progress stalls not working, plateau
- Breaks and coming back missed sessions, restarting
- NB-UVB for children kids, child
- NB-UVB for eczema eczema, atopic dermatitis
- Sun, vacations, and real life holiday, sunburn, travel
Light treatment safety
Eyes, skin reactions, other people in the house, and when to call someone.
- NB-UVB safety sunbathing, sunbed, deodorant, photoageing
- Eye protection and eyelids goggles, eyes
- Reactions and when to call burn, blister, redness
- Managing home-use risk
- Home and household safety children, pets, flatmates
Home or clinic
Which setting fits your life, and how people actually get a home unit.
- Home or clinic home phototherapy, clinic phototherapy
- The path to home light therapy
- Home vs. clinic
- Get prescribed
- Getting home phototherapy how do I get one
- Track it keep a record, log sessions
Choosing and running a device
Which unit, what it costs, and keeping it working once it is yours.
- Compare home devices panel, handheld, wand, full body
- Find your device fit
- Panelite Home Unit
- Mobile-Lite model 600
- What a setup costs
- Maintenance and troubleshooting bulbs, lamps, replacement, not turning on
- Your home-device routine
- Authorization and refill codes
- Delivery and setup
- Renting a home unit rent phototherapy unit, NB-UVB rental, rent to own, rent, lease
- Resale, disposal, and broken lamps selling it on, broken bulb, disposal
Cost, insurance and appeals
What it costs, what insurers do, and what to send when they say no.
- How coverage works
- Prior authorization prior auth, PA
- Medicare and DME Medicare, durable medical equipment
- Insurance and equipment codes CPT, HCPCS, billing code
- Medical-necessity documentation letter of medical necessity
- Find your plan's policy
- Coverage by insurer
- If coverage is denied denied, denial, appeal, cosmetic
- Cash costs out of pocket, paying myself
Procedures and removing the remaining color
Surgical options, and the choice to even out the other way.
- RECELL RECELL, vitiligo cell harvesting, vitiligo procedure, stable vitiligo surgery, surgery, grafting, melanocyte
- Depigmentation going all the way, even out
- Monobenzone and depigmentation monobenzone, Benoquin, permanent depigmentation, final depigmentation
Supplements, diet and complementary approaches
Vitamins, herbs, ayurveda and homeopathy, each graded on what the record shows.
- Diet and complementary approaches Ayurveda, Ayurvedic, homeopathy, homeopathic, diet, supplements, vitamin D, B12, ginkgo, Polypodium, turmeric, zinc
- Pseudocatalase creams PC-KUS, Dead Sea
- Whole-person care stress, sleep, lifestyle
Claims, myths and miracle cures
How to check a claim before you spend anything on it.
- Myths and misinformation myth, is it contagious
- Evaluating cure claims cure, scam, before and after
Other people, and the part that is not your skin
Staring, dating, school, covering up, and the load of always thinking about it.
- Life and mind
- Camouflage and cosmetic cover makeup, cover up, concealer, self-tanner, Dermablend
- Confidence and going uncovered
- Dating and disclosure dating, telling
- When people get it wrong staring, rude
- Bullying and school school, teacher
- Skin tone, identity, and you skin tone, culture, family, identity
- Making peace and treating
Appointments and finding care
Finding someone who knows the condition, and what to bring when you get there.
- Find a dermatologist dermatologist, specialist
- Prepare for an appointment
- Questions for a Vitiligo appointment
- Questions for a Psoriasis appointment
- My next conversations my list, print questions
Following what changes
Keeping a record you can compare, and what returning color settles.
- Measuring change photos, tracking, progress
- After repigmentation will it last, relapse
Research, trials and what is coming
What is being studied, how to join a trial, and how this site reads evidence.
- Join a clinical trial trial, study, enroll
- Current research
- What's coming pipeline, new treatments
- AI and drug discovery
- Research and evidence
- How evidence is reviewed
- Evidence glossary what does this word mean
- Who was studied
Psoriasis
What the site covers so far on psoriasis, alongside the shared light-treatment pages.
The app
What it records, what it will not tell you to do, and what it costs.
About this site
Who writes it, how it is funded, how mistakes get fixed, and the legal pages.