I have been using monobenzone at first amd I achieved a very light complexion and now I am starting to getting the pigments back , now I am as dark as hell ,very patchy dark brown patches all over my body , arms legs and hands

This is a sad story for me,I am planning to use 80% hydroquinone together with steroids to clear it off, I know it is rather dangerous but there is no way left for me

If you have a better advice,drop me back

I have been using monobenzone at first amd I achieved a very light complexion and now I am starting to getting the pigments back , now I am as dark as hell ,very patchy dark brown patches all over my body , arms legs and hands

This is a sad story for me,I am planning to use 80% hydroquinone together with steroids to clear it off, I know it is rather dangerous but there is no way left for me

If you have a better advice,drop me back

U need 2 go to the doctor and ask for medication instead of going for self medication because it might be verry dangerous

Go to a dermatologist. Its not good to experiment with one's skin.

Welcome to the world of skin lightening and what happens to many people. Often you may find there is little you can do. But you need to see your doctor for professional treatment.

Leave mono alone... give your skin a rest from any product for aleast a week or two... than use something else... going to see a dermatogist you will need a Dr who understands what you want most derma will question why you want to lighten your skin and will not give you what you want... but at the same time it's a double standard since the majority of fair skin people loves to get Tans it OK to ask doctors about what makes you dark but when a dark person want to get lighter its an issue... used Fair & white to put your skin back on track but let your skin rest so it can adjust

I had a problem similar to yours but not with the cream I was using I went to FLorida on vacation... and the sun turn my skin... extremely dark... I think my skin became extra dark because of the cream attracting the suns rays to my skin... I used strong sun block but didn't help at all... I had wait aleast two before I could see my skin lightening up again... was the worst to months of my life... I got so dark no body could recognize me...

Hi gold3509

Did you use monobenzone? I do not think fair & white could clear hyperpigmentation , it's just not strong enough, I need the real pure monobenzone to clear hyperpigmentation , so I am seeking the real source right now , because the fake creams ruined my skin

Father Chuck , yes but not now ,please believe that I am a strong man and that I would never give up, only to time I can't cure myself I will visit the derm , it is much better off to iron out and get going on the power of my own.

Practices makes perfect , I will experiment and test and test and tests until I find a solution to share.I do not only safe myself , but also the weak ones.

Hi wantolight

I am going through the same thing. My skin has become darker in patches, much darker than my natural colour. Some parts are totally depigmented, and some parts have white spots or dark hyperpigmentation.

I went to a dermatologist and she recommended phototherapy and Tacrolimus ointment in conjunction with a corticosteroid cream. I am Indian so she said hydroquinone will be very bad for my skin type (olive-dark skin). I originally have light brown skin. Please do not use that concentration of hydroquinone without consulting a dermatologist.

I have ordered my Tacrolimus ointment and corticosteroid cream. I will be using these on my hands for next 4 weeks, then starting my phototherapy 2 - 3 times a week for 6 weeks, then maintenance regime (not told to me yet).

I am very interested in your journey. Please email me [email protected] to share your updates, views etc.

Thanks
Sunny

Hi wantolight

I am going through the same thing. My skin has become darker in patches, much darker than my natural colour. Some parts are totally depigmented, and some parts have white spots or dark hyperpigmentation.

I went to a dermatologist and she recommended phototherapy and Tacrolimus ointment in conjunction with a corticosteroid cream. I am Indian so she said hydroquinone will be very bad for my skin type (olive-dark skin). I originally have light brown skin. Please do not use that concentration of hydroquinone without consulting a dermatologist.

I have ordered my Tacrolimus ointment and corticosteroid cream. I will be using these on my hands for next 4 weeks, then starting my phototherapy 2 - 3 times a week for 6 weeks, then maintenance regime (not told to me yet).

I am very interested in your journey. Please email me [email protected] to share your updates, views etc.

Thanks
Sunny

Hi,
I wanted to know more about Benoquin.
My first question: Does is cause cancer or other skin diseases, or is it safe to use a little concentration of it?

Secondly: I am a Pakistani by origin, but I'm not very dark skinned as I've got a Kashmiri mother. I want my skin to be lighter, if I want "nearer to" a Caucasian white skin without skin damages or harm what is your advice? Pure white or what? Please advise me on this.

Thirdly:
Is it when your skin is COMPLETELY depigmented that you never get dark again, or you don't get dark again even if your not completely depigmented and are just shades lighter? Meaning, do you have to maintain your skin colour once you start getting lighter or not?

Lastly:
Can you use Benoquin after laser hair removal on your body?

Four questions, detailed answers please! I'm scared of getting diseases, don't want to make my life a living hell. I mean, even of you don't look bad and are using it wisely, there is a chance of you getting a disease in the future isn't it?
P.S. I'd love a reply from anyone, but I would also like lovie1's and Vahid's reply. Also, lovie1 can you please send me your before and after pictures? Here's my email address: >Removed<

Thank you, please try answering all of my questions.

Answers from all of you will be welcomed!
Thank you.
Aeesha

What concentration of monobenzone did you use?

I used mono. I mixed the powder w retin a for 4 months. I got bright white spots all over me. Not my face! I went to various Dr. they suggested weekly UVA booth $$$
They all told me mono may spark vitilligio... I look like I have it some places are white..
Mono get in your system... it move all over. I got spots in places I couldn't reach after I stopped!. up to 8 months. Later. I was still getting light spots.
Maybe I mixed it too strong. If I had continued, I would be a freak. Spots started going up the back of my neck into my hair... I have a tiny pin head spot on a cheek!
... It's been over 3 yrs. My brown color is coming back in dots inside the bright spots.The dots are lighter & darker. I would love to have my even brown skin back! NOW!

I have mono powder 4 oz. I would love to sell. I paid 295. For 5 oz... from a place in Canada... I can't toss it! Someone will be like me & think it won't work!
And they can control it too.
LOL
Welcome
If I had to do it over I wouldn't have played w mono.

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Leave mono alone. Please. Love your color the way it is. Use natural products, plant based only. I wish I had my even color back. I am 29 years old and my skin is disfigured.

Aeesha,

Please do not lighten with any products containing monobenzone. Use natural herbal remedies or plant-based products. Imagine your skin with white patches and dark patches. What if you get discolored on your face, your neck, ears or other areas you cannot hide? Get it out of your head to use these products, now, please.

To Spotty 2 ,

I got the same results as you , my face never depig and no spots neither , however I see many white spots on my hands and neck , thaz it.

Well I guess mono doesn't like me at all , it works for 2 out of a hundred , and I'm not the lucky one

Finally I am finished on my foolish monobenzone journey - The End -

I am w you 4 yrs later. The spots that filled in are sometimes darker or whiter. I wanted lighter arms & hands...
I have to wear demablend or pay a 150.00 per session might possibly even my skin I may have found a lamp to cut the cost. I don't think I will ever been even toned again/ +

I can't sell the mono I have 4 oz is lot.

I paid almost 300 for 5 oz.

To Spotty 2 ,

I got the same results as you , my face never depig and no spots neither , however i see many white spots on my hands and neck , thaz it.

well i guess mono doesn't like me at all , it works for 2 out of a hundred , and i'm not the lucky one

Finally i am finished on my foolish monobenzone journey - The End -


How long has it been since you stopped the mono? That stuff kept working I AFTER I STOPPED.
I'm trying to use peels on my arms. I'm looking for a lamp also
Good luck

I was reading old posts. There are still a few sellers here lying. Depig.com shut down yrs ago. They were liars & sellers.
When it was discovered they were scammers they banned them then shut the site down. You can't trust people that say this stuff work( not even for 7 mos) 4 months ruined me!
There's no surgery to correct this condition! To the person that said it will cost 15-20,thousand for surgery. Surgery? To do what? Skin replacement?
You have to put the color backin your skin that's it
The only lightening I've seen work is expensive it's the intravenous vit C gluthoine drip adminstred by a professional not bought on eBay or Amazon.

There are so many sites and sellers popping up. If they get shut down they will just spring back up with another website, and here, with new screennames to plug their poison.

I hate everyone who ever sold monobenzone without a prescription. And what's scarier is there are more and more sellers and people trying monobenzone, from the looks of it on this and other forums, than there were 5 years ago there were just a few. Now there are so many people, my mailbox is looking flooded with people messaging me about monobenzone over the past 5 yrs I have been an AMHD member.

Monobenzone actually did lighten my face the first month but it wasn't even and the lightening wasn't anything spectacular, I would say a shade of oilve which hydroquinone Dr Summit used to give, and much cheaper and safer. At least I stopped monbenzone years ago, otherwise I would just look horrid because it just causes more and more hyperpigmentation the more you apply, instead of less!

But I notice since I touched mono, its like my skin is immune to ANY lightening. My derms said its because of monobenzone viscosity nature, it never metabolize out of your system it stays under the skin where the melanocytes are aggravated. So now if I use anymore monobenzone, mequinol, hydroquinone, or any hydroquinone derivative, my skin will rebound and hyperpigment instead of lighten. And that is what has happened. For a few months I tried 1% monbenzone mixed with 5% mequinol, but that too, hyperpigmented me. My skin seems to "remember" monobenzone from years now in any strength and fights back fiercely no matter how little or diluted its applied. Like an immunity! Melocytes develop some sort of immunity to monobezone quickly and keep a guard up, which is darker pigments than you began with, in my experience.

Nothing short of a disaster. TCA peels and laser for me seem to stimulate more hyperpigmentation on the borders, so it won't work unless they can somehow put me in a man-sized laser machine and blast away all the pigments at once! Maybe someday in this lifetime. In the mean while, I have no choice to get a lot of sun and continue repigmenting up to match my new color which is a shade or two darker than when I started in the first place and not at all even :( And the dark patches, are almost blackish and you can see the areas growing day to day as bigger and bigger patches but the good thing I noticed is as the black patches grow, they blend more into the brown skin color, I guess because their color is spreading out more and stabilizing compared to when a new black patch would appear like little bits of confetti.

I just hate it and "BLACKENED" pretty much sums up my experience with mono, too!

The infrared(?) seem to help some people according to 2 Dr.s
There is a machine that is used for psoriosis that will help w vitiligio I'm told... I will try this

You can't trust people that say this stuff work( not even for 7 mos) 4 mos ruined me!

there's no surgery to correct this condition!

you have to put the color backin your skin that's it
the only...

There's so many sellers and websites run probably by money-hungry crazy teens and college kids, in USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, especially. Some of which were looking to finance their own skin lightening endeavors by buying monobenzone, adulterating it, and selling it as the pure stuff. And using our hard earned money to try safer products as well as go on vacations. :(

It's scary that this continues to happen on AMHD despite so many of us skin being ruined. They advertise their websites (for monobenzone, hydroquinone, mequinol) and the buyers see an initial lightening for a few weeks then DISASTER STRIKES for years to come.

So, how long ago was it 4 months of monobenzone usage that ruined you? Looking back, I can't believe its almost 5 whole years ago that I stopped monobenzone for the most part, but its STILL doing its damage! When will this ever end! I just want to be all one color again, I don't even care if it's a shade darker than I started with (my current state) as long as its even and AS LONG AS THE HYPERPIGMENTATION PATCHES finally stop.

I mean, after 10 years am I STILL going to be suffering the consequences of having just used monobenzone for a couple months?

Theres so many sellers and websites run probably by money-hungry crazy teens andO college kids, in USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, especially. Some of which were looking to finance their own skin lightening endeavors by buying monobenzone, adulterating it, and selling it as the pure stuff. And using our hard earned money to try safer products as well as go on vacations. :(

It's scary that this continues to happen on AMHD despite so many of us skin being ruined. They advertise their websites (for monobenzone, hydroquinone, mequinol) and the buyers see an initial lightening for a few weeks then DISASTER STRIKES for years to come.

So, how long ago was it 4 mos of monobenzone usage that ruined you? Looking back, I can't believe its almost 5 whole years ago that I stopped monobenzone for the most part, but its STILL doing its damage! When will this ever end! I just want to be all one color again, I dont even care if it's a shade darker than I started with (my current state) as long as its even and AS LONG AS THE HYPERPIGMENTATION PATCHES finally stop.

I mean, after 10 years am I STILL going to be suffering the consequences of having just used monobenzone for a couple months??I understand I saw spots under my skin I stopped Jan 09. The spots started.I was afraid to look in the mirror! Then I looked like a burn patient! I have t wore anything sleeveless in yrs. My back up to my bra. My butt doesn't have one spot I put it there!?
One day I will be the uneven caramel coated I was in the beginning

I understand I saw spots under my skin I stopped Jan 09. The spots started.i was afraid to look in the mirror! Then I looked like a burn patient! I have t wore anything sleeveless in yrs. My back up to my bra. My butt doesn't have one spot I put it there!??
One day I will be the uneven caramel coated I was in the beginningHave u tried spray tans? Dermablend help. I haven't sprayed on color one day I will

The spots started

i was afraid to look in the mirror!

Then I looked like a burn patient!

I have t wore anything sleeveless in yrs.

One day I will be the uneven caramel coated I was in the beginning

Me too, I wear long sleeves in the hottest summers, long pants, and socks in the hottest scorching weather, it's just scorching torture every day.

Before using mono, I always wore armless, shorts, and sandals. I haven't worn those in 5 years. On vacations in Florida and Jamaica people look at me all weird and ask all the time, are you hot? Why don't you take that off. I take them off sometimes when no one's around and it's sunny to try and tan/redden the areas so they don't look so uneven, but that's rare. My face gets a lot of sun, but the sun causes hyperpigmentation there, really BLACK marks appear overnight, still. Especially like now in the summers.

I threw most of my T-shirts and short pants away anyway, once it hit 2-3 years and the dark spots just spread and spread randomly like wildfire across my skin. It is a horrible curse that just won't go away.

I started a rich, dark brown color but my original color was a lighter olive brown, mixed like I was part black part french/italian like my siblings and cousin but that's when I was much younger. Monobenzone got me back to that color for maybe 4 weeks, I felt so good, so mixed, so exotic. People even asked me if I was Creole or part French/Italian during that time. But it was so extremely short-lived. Now, my dream is ruined, and reality worsened into a nightmare over just a couple months dappling in paint-like, thick, gritty, watery, dark, light, all sorts of monobenzone creams. I've given up on a fresh start and still hope waiting twice as long, things will have resolved since sadly 5 yrs was not enough to recover my skin. We will see within another 5 years, I hope. But that seems so far far away. 5 and likely another 5... 10 years of my life ruined! :(

Wow you're really exaggerating, 5 years?
Find a good source stick to it, apply it 2-3 times everyday – EVERDAY.
Wear sunscreen everyday – EVERYDAY. 5 months to a year and you are done.
Take responsibility for your choices in life and move on.

May 2012? LoL

Sounds like a vendor commercial:

"Apply liberally, often, and you are done, it will work.

And, if it doesnt, accept responsibility for your choices in life - and MOVE ON."

I was actually trying to help you.. :/

Wow Sara,
Your approach is harsh.
Your phasing is shocking.

Have u see his skin? If u have maybe your help is warranted.
Sara are u blotchy?

Dear Michale, you did lighten?
I didn't so perhaps that was a good thing.
I do have small dots inside the brighter spots.
I have very few dark spots u spoke of.
Again I have arms much darker than my face & chest the few blend in.
I will tan on my balcony for a few hours this week covering my face. I'm so glad I got off this stuff after a few months...

SARA:, I think I remember you... Yep I think you are a seller.
I remember you disappearing 12/08 then popping in. I was here daily . I was dumb & trusting... then.

LoL, sellers applying the guilt-trip when monobenzone customer/user of 5 years history has adverse reactions and it actually doesn't work.

Spotty, yes black spots galore. Monobenzone gave one dose of lightening (the first 1-2 months of use only) followed by 99 doses of BLACKENING since the past 5 years and going! Despite stopping monobenzone applications after 2 months of erratic lightening/darkening.

I think this thread title by wantolight sums it up, cause in the end, all in all, MONOBENZONE BLACKENED MY SKIN too.

Of course new seller accounts will pop in and attempt "damage control" wherever the truth about monobenzone is shocking. Pathetic.

JUST SAY NO... TO MONO!

May I ask why hydroquinone is bad for your skin?

I used Monobenzone on my innner thighs and underarms and it turned my skin a lot darker and it has some little tiny white spots like ground beef kind of (u know ground beef is all red with tiny white spots, exactly the same but very dark brown and white).

I don't know what to do, because my skin was not so dark, and now it looks really brownish grey.

I am olive-light brown color hispanic.

Any advice?

No one will listen cause we didn't when the few warned us

May I ask why hydroquinone is bad for your skin?




I should have stayed with and settled for Summit 2% HQ, but I wanted PERMANENT results and when I joined these forums all the sellers were claiming miracles, and to top it off it did turn my face from brown to olive but it only lasted a month then disaster struck and I got blacker than ever in splotches!

What a waste of time, money, and you only have one skin, don't gamble it with Mono!!

Ok you're right, I'm a seller and I made a fortune over the years from miserable people like you.

Ok you're right, I'm a seller and I made a fortune over the years from miserable people like you.

Your words not mine!

Some one emailed me the link to your posts from 09... so
Anybody that has the time can read you old post Sara.

So do u use mono? Are u here to share or insult? I'm not sure

No one will listen cause we didn't when the few warned us

That is the truth I have encountered over the years, which is why I would only post once or twice a year. This year and July 16 or so, I made an exception because I hit 5 years being a member and wanted to look back at the past 5 years and get some insight as to "where do you see yourself in the next 5 years from now".

Sad but true, we didn't listen, we wanted to hear the success stories, and tell ourselves that those discouraging monobenzone experimentation were the ones lying and being greedy or selfish.

And sadly it took me so long to be sure that, the reverse is true. That the success stories were almost always financially motivated, or wishful thinking at best by those who decided they have no other option anyway, and carry on applying as they get more and more disfigured, and tell people on here to keep applying too, so they don't feel so alone. And the ones discouraging mono use where actually severely burnt and damaged, scarred for life or at least a very, very long time.

Once you realize the cost of the stuff, and the amount the sellers make each buyer/user they recruit, it's a no-brainer. Of course there will be those clinging to hope and connstantly changing up their strategies, like one person telling people who used 60% to come down drastically since there are studies that show any percent used produced lightening and there was no difference. Indeed, there was no difference because that was a short term study. I've been saying all along it doesn't matter where you got your mono from or what % you use at first, it will both trick you into thinking its working so that you keep applying, then it destroys you -- regardless of the % used. Many desperate people are being thrown off by these varied tactics, only to continue to do more damage to their skins.

The sooner they stop damaging, with whatever % and whatever source, the sooner they can begin the longgg slowwww journey to healing and getting your one even color back -someday.

This evening I saw a new derm to get a consultation and she mentioned lamps, tacrolimus, and also explained monobenzone darkening instead of lightening isn't as complicated as people make it out to be. She said its simply a drug eruption that causes very resistant hyperpigmentation and once it happens you have to stay away from all phenolic ingredients because the skin develops a cross-sensitivity or immunity not just to monobenzone, but to all structurally related compounds including HQ, mequinol, phenylhydroquinone, chloroquinone, etc. That was interesting. She will be having her assistant call me later this week to propose a treatment package and price. I actually started bargaining on prices, with the premise that there not giving any guarantee, and it has worked, I hope this time too, I usually beat them down 20% or so on the quoted treatment cost.

I know I t would be wrong to name forums & Dr's here but I hope you have a good Dr
.

Okay so the doctor's assistant called me this afternoon and the prices of all the option were a few thousand dollars each. I have already spent 3-4 thousand here, 3-4 there, on lasers, peeling sessions, it all ads up. So I told them I need more time to decide which option to take since they're all so very expensive. The doctor had recommended me to go back on Amlactin 12% Lactic acid lotion so I picked up a new bottle today. The consensus from all doctors and my experience over the years:

1) Avoid strong lightening chemicals (including monobenzone and other hydroquinones), acid peels, scrubs because although the intention may be to exfoliate and brighten, they all actually cause hyperpigmentation for me.

2) Use a daily moisturizer with Vitamin A, E, C and a gente acid like lactic or glycolic acid, 12% or less. Apply it very liberally from head to toe, twice daily if you can take 2 showers a day, for years, yes you really have to stick to it for that long because you will not see results right away. Patience is a virtue. And rushing things will only worsen the problem. So this is a good routine treatment that is cheap and no pain or down time.This will stimulate a continuous, gentle purging of the skin cells and impurities up to the surface.

3) Don't trust sunblock chemicals. When I stopped applying sunblock this summer, the hyperpigmentation I normally get has slowed down, compared to when I would slater on sunblock and still get brown spots appear right after a day at the park. There are news studies that confirm sunblock chemicals including the -benzones, cause or worsen melasma and hyperpigmentation, instead of lessen it. They even said it intereferes with your hormones, making the body produce more melanin than less. This makes sense when you think about it, monobenzone produces hyperpigmentation, and so do the other benzone in sunblock, according to the new studies and my experience so far. Zinc oxide instead is much better, because it is totally inert and the body actually needs zinc, it does not need avobenzone.

I'm going to treat my skin like vitiligo... I found one DR I saw her before & after. Photos.

I don't know the new rules here.. about listing forums or sharing emails, Dr'S so I won't push it...
Still a lot of sellers... here

Yes pms can be viewed..
GOOD LUCK

Yes my latest doctor as well as the previous ones all diagnose it as chemical-induced vitiligo, they have told me they have seen induced vitiligo from Hydroquinone creams and Salage(Mequinol) as well. And the latest prognoses in my previous post above.

I noticed my skin hyperpigments just from hot weather, in my groin and privates and other places where the sun don't shine. So that's another horrible side effect of monobenzone, the skin hyperpigments in patches from hot weather alone. And it continues to do so well after stopping mono applications, and long after sun or warm weather exposure :(

The site I was on told people heat made you skin lighten faster...

One guy suggested a sweat suit.. heat does something??

My tummy is pretty bad considering that wasn't my focus area..
Dang 4 months!.

I saw that advice on the viti support forum. Apparently, it does help monobenzone absorption.

So I had bought a sauna suit on eBay for cheap. I slept in every night for about 2-3 months (during mono and mequinol experimenting), it felt miserable! And looking back, that is why there is so much mono stuck in my system, and wreaking havoc on my attempts to even out my skin tone for so long (5yrs) now. :(

Apparently there are vitiligo patients who have difficulty depigmenting, and some have gone onto repigment instead of depigment, from the attack mode monobenzone triggers in melanocytes. The small weak ones die, but the big ones grow bigger, more active, and more "dendritic". My doctor explained if you have mostly weak ones (vitiligo skin) monobenzone will work, but if you have mostly normal ones (normal skin, or only minor vitiligo), monobenzone will never work. Same goes for mequinol he said, it produces confetti depigmentation. Which is why we see such uneven, patchy skin tone for so long.

I hardly ever applied to my back, as a lot of it I can't reach. But I just looked in the mirror and 5 years later, I stll have a "black & white cow" pattern going on back there, spreading up my neck as well as down my buttocks and all around my legs, groin, everywhere. When will this marbling ever end??

I don't know where I am. My larger spots will start to fill in then pow! A stark white spot will appear...
They are so difficult to hide under make up...

Everyone up until today, online, here and random strangers in everyday setting, will start talking and recommend Dermablend. Apparently, many women of color wear dermablend as a daily concealer because it is so opaque and lightens up their black skin tones. Unfortunately, I have tried it many times over the past 5 years to hide my obvious black and white spots, to blend them, but it doesn't work. First of all I am a male, and makeup on a male stands out, draw even more attention to all that's going on in my skin. With a girl, people overlook the obvious makeup texture. I have gotten airbrush trial too. But the problem with dermablend and everything else, is this. Over the black areas, dark still shows through no matter how thick or how many layers. Over the white spots and light areas, they absorb a stain from the dermablend but stand out brighter. So concealment doesn't work. These glycolic/lactic gentle peels are my only hope since deep TCA and Phenol peel which doctors promised me would hypopigment, hyperpigmented instead. :(

The doctor's excuse why they didn't work, when they promised it would, is because monobenzone causes the worst kind of hyperpigmentation, also called exogenous ochronisis. In layman term, my doctors have said it in one way or another that is "very deep dermal pigmentation rooted in the basal layer". So that's why peels won't work, Even an extreme burn off all skin down to the raw tissue below basal, will trigger some rebound pigmentation during re-epithelialization from follicles, which also serve as a "reservoir for new melanocytes and melanin".

Mac & derma blend have both have various of colors,, its easier to cover a tatoos on a white person that it is a darker...

Spray tan might be an option... I have an excellent make up artist.
I fell bad for you but there are a few people that can help... it cost... but 'its worth it if it work right?

I get get the darkest shade. I just visited 2 other forums and don't feel as terribly bad and down as I was today, because I'm not alone. On SCT I just perused, and saw Krissie stated she used mono for 4 months 4 yrs ago and she still suffering the nasty side effects, she descrived it as a "snake going through your system. I can't help but agree, a hyperpigmenting snake! Speaking of which, I then saw on RS an Indian guy with the same blackening in part from TCA peels, it seems it caused hyperpigmentation (look at neck) and hypopgimentation (upper face). Hypopigmentation After 35% Tca Peel- Indian Skin. What Are My Options? (photo) Doctor Answers, Tips (http://www.realself.com/question/hypopigmentation-after-35-tca-peel-please-help) Did same for me, except my lightened areas filled back in with a dark brown color a few weeks later, and my new skin color (due to monobenzone and tca peels) is about as dark as he is.

Depig.com site( no longer up) said you will see nothing for a min of 4 months.

Most people like me gave it 4 to 6 months before we saw results we didn't like.
We didn't know it was too late to turn around... there's many 4 to 6 months users out here..
The site disappeared... after that...
Are you still searching boards?
I've given up. I know where to go it s a matter of money

are u still searching boards?
I've given up. I know where to go it s a matter of money

Sure is. I don't search forums, I search Google for monobenzone hyperpigment treatment and other such search chains. Sometimes, forum entries instead of research articles come up :(

Oh okay...

Did the OP post a picture of how bad his or her skin got yet. It just dawned on me that I have been a member 5 years and never showed a little of my condition. I have described my history so many times, and my original color dark brown and similar to Jon Secada, I am Belizean, with black and south american root. While I wouldn't paste my face, here is my ugly feet taken at the doctor office yesterday

http://i48.tinypic.com/er0aoz.jpg

I have these black patches all over from mono. Note the dull, gloomy, ashy, grayish zombie effect throughout my skin, that mono, high strength HQ and mequinol each or together imparted. That includes back, buttock, genital, leg, arm, stomach, neck, chin, undereye, you name it. My skin used to be one perfect dark mocha color before I messed with mono.

Oh wow! You skin sound like it was a beautiful color... did u read the depig site that has disappeared...
You would have to go darker to even out the color which I know u don't want to do.

If u was darker with white spots it would be more difficult

Yes, I remembered Sinny and her arm picture from that site, that is what my doctor telling me yesterday has seen worst, just like you say, said it would be worst if I had the pink raw flesh color in between the black patches, instead I have a very light brown color, that looks white because the surrrounding skin is so black, but that it would look twice as worst if the lightest areas were raw pink. I do get people ask if I got burned, because around my mouth and eyelids there is where there is so much black and white contrast people notice but it's not as bad as full blown burn victim with raw flesh. So the prognosis was I'm a good candidate for accelerated, more even repigment therapy, than my skin on it's only would never fully even out from all the mono, mequinol, HQ damage, but with all the UV and tacro and laser I will have to accept going darker for a few years more until the pigment spreads out more evenly. And that I don't look like I have vitiligo. I did when I started mono but that lasted only very short I could swear one area would be light one day then start filling in with black spots overnight, so a lot of color came into the palest areas just as soon as I started mono, about during 2nd month.

So you have the white or pink patches in a darker color? Or you have your natural color with some white patches? I forgot. And what are you using these days? Something custom formulated, or?

Ok I just uploaded my doctor's pic of my feet as my avatar and realized it looks worst small than blow up, to me. An remembered to point out that in my nail bed and the back of my heels, the pigment is growing into those area which shouldn't have any color, but do now. Good grief!

I have them all! Lighter. Blended brown spots then a few white spots. I have a few whiote spots that darker spots filled in. I tested arbutin w/o retin a or mono. That spot is lighter w very few spots I don't think the color is every going to come in there... don't know what your face look like but if its like your feet spray tan is your best option... If only we knew what would happen...

Could it be you have more hypopigmentation and I have more hyperpigmentation because of our routines? What are you currently using to continue lightening? Right now I'm just exfoliating, not using anything to lighten but I'm hoping my Qmed session next week starts to lighten up my face and hands a little, it would be so disappointing if my skin darkens instead, like it has with all previous derm's attempts. Amlactin I feel is a great gentle moisturizing exfoliator, but I'm not really seeing any flakes or the dark areas being purged away yet, Sigh.

http://i48.tinypic.com/er0aoz.jpg

I have these black patches all over from mono. Note the dull, gloomy, ashy, grayish zombie effect throughout my skin, that mono, high strength HQ and mequinol each or together imparted. That includes back, buttock, genital, leg, arm, stomach, neck, chin, undereye, you name it. My skin used to be one perfect dark mocha color before I messed with mono.

I am dealing with the same blackening except my normal skin tone is a more yellow-brown than a blackish brown. I am Filipina with some Spanish roots as well. We call it Mestiza here, not Mulatto though, the racial moxing.

Anyway, so the blackening actually stands out more on me than your feet. On my face, it looks like a racoon mask. I wish we could have a second chance and never touched this stuff, but my only recourse now is to keep applying because Sara said if I don't more black patches will appear, if I stop applying monobenzone.

Could it be you have more hypopigmentation and I have more hyperpigmentation because of our routines? What are you currently using to continue lightening? Right now I'm just exfoliating, not using anything to lighten but I'm hoping my Qmed session next week starts to lighten up my face and hands alittle, it would be so disappointing if my skin darkens instead, like it has with all previous derm's attempts. Amlactin I feel is a great gentle moisturizing exfoliator, but I'm not really seing any flakes or the dark areas being purged away yet, Sigh.

Yes it could be... when my arms become spot free( which are perma taned).. I'll be so much happier... we may have to live w what we've done...

A small update. Continuous Retin A and monobenzone applications , my hands and arms depigged 98%, however it is not MJ color , a very very very light brown , in some lights my color looks like MJ . But I warn you guys , do not mess up with mono if you are a faint of heart , you will need extreme patience because this process takes ages and the amount of money burning for monobenzone takes more than I expected. I am a Man of violent thus I ain't afraid of disfigurement and the slow process that I am having in my routine

You are a man of violent? I don't understand what you mean?
How long have you used mono?
Do u have spots yet? Photos?
You can pm me w them if u like... I'll share mine.

Sounds great, happy it's working for somebody! Almost tempting to me for giving monbenzone another shot. Only arms and hands, what about rest of body? I can't picture it but 98% sounds awesome, congrats on your progress after all this blackening!

Can someone please tell me where I can get real mono from?