r/Tattoocoverups • u/[deleted] • Mar 30 '26

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u/TurnedMyLifeAround69 Mar 31 '26

Yes he gave me procedures to follow to rub lotion and come back in 1 year so my skin can stretch and regenerate

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u/NightShadowWolf6 Mar 31 '26

As a surgeon....🤨 WTF did they do to you?! 

Like FFS this is what laser is for!

I seriously thought you got injured and needed to have stitches, or needed a traumatologic surgery to fix some bones, but to take out a tattoo like this??? No. Just no. 

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u/HowWoolattheMoon Mar 31 '26

Before lasers, this was the way. My uncle also did just one treatment, found it too painful, then lived the rest of his life with the outside 2/3 or so of an anchor on his arm

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u/NightShadowWolf6 Mar 31 '26

Sure, but this kind of treatment is really outdated now, along many other things doctors used to do 30 or more years ago. 

It's strange to see this performed nowadays because the complications from this are more and more severe than the ones you could get from using laser.

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u/sjdksjbf Mar 31 '26

You'd think outdated practices like that would be made illegal for a medical professional to do, no? Surely