[spotty2]

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

[michaeljr]

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?

[spotty2]

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

[spotty2]

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

Have u tried spray tans? Dermablend help. I haven't sprayed on color one day I will

[michaeljr]

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! :(

[Sara uk]

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.

[michaeljr]

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."

[Sara uk]

I was actually trying to help you.. :/

[spotty2]

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.

[michaeljr]

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!

[oliveskin111]

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?

[spotty2]

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

[michaeljr]

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!!

[Sara uk]

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

[spotty2]

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

[michaeljr]

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.

[spotty2]

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

[michaeljr]

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.

[spotty2]

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

[michaeljr]

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 :(