I've noticed a weird phenomenon. I started using Clobetasol about a week ago for inflammation of my skin. Now it seems that there's this odd bluish color on my skin where i used the medication small spot on front of shoulder. I noticed this has happened before on my upper arms where my vitiligo is, but it has long since disappeared. The blue color isn't super noticeable to anybody else but I can definitely tell. I know Vitiligo comes in all types of forms and ways is this normal? Will it go away?
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It seems to be a side effect due to corticosteroids vasoconstriction .
Someone else has reported the same: http://www.psoriasis.name/forum/topics/help-im-turning-blue
Talk to your doctor about a possible/temporary remission.
Maria, did you double check it?
I did take a look. I read up on different types of vit. Apparently there is a phenomenon of hyperpigmentation along with vitiligo that can sometime appear blue. Interesting.
Please send the links if you still have them.
It actually might be a good thing because it is due to hyperpigment coming back into the skin.
I had never heard about it.
No opinion yet.
Is it still blue?
It is not as blue as it was. It's bizarre. I was thinking maybe because its close to a tattoo the tattoo ink is bleeding? And I was even thinking scleroderma at first. I don't know haven't brought it up at the doctors yet.
Hey Flavio,
Here's one of the links to this issue I spoke about a few weeks back...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8169254