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Loss of pigmentation

Serce
Serce
In the last few months I've noticed a loss of pigmentation in the skin just below my lower lip. It is long & fairly thin and follows the lip line. The skin is whiter than the rest of my face.

Is this part of CFS/ME or something new? Wonder if it's caused by meds, something new is going on or just another odd thing common to us?

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Thanks!
Serce
Serce
LOL......I guess not. Time to do more research.....take care all!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Last year I had something called tinea versicolor on my back. It is a fungal infection. Unfortunately, I think it would be VERY atypical to get this by your lip and nowhere else on your body.

The doctor told me it is cosmetic and doesn't actually hurt me. I feel like the fact that a fungal infection is taking the pigment out of my skins means it is doing something not so great to my body!

It took me almost 9 months to fully get rid of it!! You treat it with topical oitments/creams and then if that doesn't work, oral anti-fungals.

I wish you luck on finding out what is going on!
Ali5tair
Ali5tair
Yep,
Dont know the biochemical mechanism but its a symptom.

Didn't have much melanin in my skin to begin with but now just 15 minutes of sun will leave me fried fire engine red.

Cant swim in chlorine pools or salt water due a rash that comes for free, and sun loations just seem to agrivate it so I just cover up.

Dont think its caused by meds.
Think its just another odd thing common to us.
cheers
RichieD
RichieD
I had a lot of trouble with extreme sun sensitivity for a year or two. Thankfully it seems to have eased up lately. I suppose that could be caused by problems with the pigment cells in the skin.

The skin is an organ like any other, and a chronic illness can mess it up like it does the rest of our organs.

I have so doggone many symptoms I could not tell you half of them if someone asked me to list them.
Serce
Serce
When I first got sick I broke out in a rash sitting on the sand and got sunburned from very limited sun exposure ........that same day I also had my first bad reaction to seafood.

I no longer break out in rashes, but am very sensitive to the sun....tend to stay out rather than in it now.......avoid a lot of other things that I am hyper sensitive to........never lost skin color before......maybe it it some kind of tinea versicolor or some dermitalogical (sorry can't spell today) problem.......need to go to sigh........to the doctor and quit trying to self-diagnose......i'm in a crash again and don't know up from down.