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Bunch of Tatts from Teen Years to Remove - Cincinnati, OH
UPDATED FROM Jtyler77
1 year post
Progress
WORTH IT$750
What's happening everyone,
Everything is progressing well with my removal.
I haven't had a treatment in months as I decided I wasn't gonna spend another hot a$$ summer in long sleeves. I will go back med/late Oct when it cools down considerably.
Right arm, I'm astonished and believe I'm done. Right fingers need some more work. Left arm def needs more work. The dragon tat on my wrist/forearm just looks like a bruise to me. The color blue is a mother. But there's worse out there. Inner left arm is giving me the most trouble which I think is the symptom of the guys grinding the ink in unevenly. We'll get thru tho ;)
Anyway I hope everyone is doing well. Don't let this crap beat you up.
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Everything is progressing well with my removal.
I haven't had a treatment in months as I decided I wasn't gonna spend another hot a$$ summer in long sleeves. I will go back med/late Oct when it cools down considerably.
Right arm, I'm astonished and believe I'm done. Right fingers need some more work. Left arm def needs more work. The dragon tat on my wrist/forearm just looks like a bruise to me. The color blue is a mother. But there's worse out there. Inner left arm is giving me the most trouble which I think is the symptom of the guys grinding the ink in unevenly. We'll get thru tho ;)
Anyway I hope everyone is doing well. Don't let this crap beat you up.
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Jtyler77's provider
UPDATED FROM Jtyler77
11 months post
A day in the life
Hello beautiful people!
I'm gonna start with a bad experience.
The doc had a new tech taking notes the last couple times. Back in September he tried a different laser on my left arm/wrist because he didn't have the laser for the blue ink installed in the Enlighten yet. It was called the Alex I believe. Well that dude is no where near as powerful as the Enlighten so he had it turned up to like 8 joules or something. Well the tech got confused or something that day because we used two different lasers and logged that he used 8 joules with the Enlighten. Fast forward to October, I was getting another treatment on the same tattoo and he was just using the Enlighten and I remember him saying to her "this can't be right", and they had a discussion while I was off in outer space playing with my phone.... I looked up and he was nailing me at 6 joules on a tattoo he's never been above 4.5 on with the Enlighten,,, and I just let him continue, cause I was hoping for more fading (that's right I'm still a little stupid with this stuff). My arm swelled something crazy and did not heal for over 8 weeks. Now it's 13 weeks to the day and this tattoo is still red. That scared, disappointed, pissed me off and made me lose trust in the whole situation... I don't believe it will scar or anything and he told me that the red will subside eventually. We didn't work on it today either because of it. I wanna be all pissed and just blame him for not being on his game, but I won't, I'll pay more attention and I will continue ;-/
Other than that, everything's peachy :)
My tattoos on my right arm are basically about gone. If I wait it out I bet that stupid demon is just,, gone. My left arm and right fingers are not going quite as well, but it is working and I am happy with it. Its just going to take more work.
Anyway, I hope we are all finding ourselves in a calm state of mind and our internal dialogue is strong. I do apologize for the long complaint, but we're documenting this, and we all need to be aware.
Talk to ya soon my friends!!
I'm gonna start with a bad experience.
The doc had a new tech taking notes the last couple times. Back in September he tried a different laser on my left arm/wrist because he didn't have the laser for the blue ink installed in the Enlighten yet. It was called the Alex I believe. Well that dude is no where near as powerful as the Enlighten so he had it turned up to like 8 joules or something. Well the tech got confused or something that day because we used two different lasers and logged that he used 8 joules with the Enlighten. Fast forward to October, I was getting another treatment on the same tattoo and he was just using the Enlighten and I remember him saying to her "this can't be right", and they had a discussion while I was off in outer space playing with my phone.... I looked up and he was nailing me at 6 joules on a tattoo he's never been above 4.5 on with the Enlighten,,, and I just let him continue, cause I was hoping for more fading (that's right I'm still a little stupid with this stuff). My arm swelled something crazy and did not heal for over 8 weeks. Now it's 13 weeks to the day and this tattoo is still red. That scared, disappointed, pissed me off and made me lose trust in the whole situation... I don't believe it will scar or anything and he told me that the red will subside eventually. We didn't work on it today either because of it. I wanna be all pissed and just blame him for not being on his game, but I won't, I'll pay more attention and I will continue ;-/
Other than that, everything's peachy :)
My tattoos on my right arm are basically about gone. If I wait it out I bet that stupid demon is just,, gone. My left arm and right fingers are not going quite as well, but it is working and I am happy with it. Its just going to take more work.
Anyway, I hope we are all finding ourselves in a calm state of mind and our internal dialogue is strong. I do apologize for the long complaint, but we're documenting this, and we all need to be aware.
Talk to ya soon my friends!!
Replies (3)
U
February 25, 2017
Well done. You have stuck with it. Pleased to see you have had some real progress. You look better without the tattoos!
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P
April 13, 2017
Do you think the Enlighten is better than the picosure?
J
April 14, 2017
I do "believe" it is with all the brain cramming I've done and with what the doc has said. One thing I will say tho is with black ink I've found people are mostly discouraged with picosure. The Enlighten is picosecond and Q switch and it kicks ass. But there's also the variables we all deal with... check out my Beware it's long post. It's the best I got with info. Good luck to you!
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UPDATED FROM Jtyler77
6 months post
Hello my friends
Been a while since I've been here. Just a lot of life, work and all that jazz holding me down.
I'm seeing a lot of progress with my right forearm and everything else is coming along nicely as well. I'm a month out on my right arm after 4 treatments with the Enlighten. I'm 2 months out on left arm after 3 treatments. I just had the 4th today so good times an all. He believes my stupid demon tattoo just needs 1 more treatment. Man I hope that's the case.
We're at a point where we are not using lido shots on my right arm as they have faded so much. It discolors the tattoos and the doc can't see them as well when we use it. It's not that bad though since most of the ink is gone. It feels more like the rubber band snapping rather than the hot grease splatter machine gun lol.
To date I've spent $4600.
Anyway, I hope all is well with everyone and don't forget,, we're all much stronger than we think ;)
Replies (4)
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A
September 29, 2016
Wow! So much success on your treatments. I have been researching so much and was sold on the Picoway but now that I'm learning about these Enlighten treatments I'm all sorts of confused if Picoway is the right way to go. Did you ever get the Picoway treatment? Thanks!
J
September 29, 2016
No I never used the picoway, but from what I've seen here it's pretty good. Most picosecond lasers "should" do the trick depending on all of your variables. I'm not a fan of picosure though. Too many documented fails on black ink. I'm a little biased toward the Enlighten because I'm seeing results compared to another laser that didn't do anything but cause pain. Anyway good luck to you!!
A
September 29, 2016
Right on! I am still going to do some more enlighten research to see what that's all about before I commit to picoway so thanks for introducing me to the enlighten treatment. I'm impressed with your results. Looks amazing!!! Thanks again!!
W
February 23, 2017
Hey! How is your removal going? Hope you're doing well :)
J
February 24, 2017
Hi there WinterWeather, yes i'm doing pretty good. I have another appointment tomorrow (Friday). I'm seeing some pretty good fading on some of my regrets :) in fact a couple are almost gone. I'll do an update in the next day or two. I hope all is well with you as well.... Thank you!
W
February 24, 2017
That's really great news. Look forward to reading your update! -Alexis
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