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Not Doing This Again - Michigan, MI
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Hey everyone after many months of contemplation I...
Sabo87July 29, 2016
Hey everyone after many months of contemplation I decided to go ahead with picosure to remove my heavy colored half sleeve . Big mistake . I'm one day post my first treatment the blisters are insane it's blotchy and hurts like hell oh not to mention my arm is about two times the normal size for swelling . I will not be going back to get any more picosure treatments . I will wait for this to heal then go to a tattoo parlor to have to just fill in the colors that it faded a bit . I'm at the point right now if tears , and am willing and ready to just accept my half sleeve and carry on with my life. To those thinking about tattoo removal , for large pieces think twice . It is not worth it to have hem removed .
Replies (8)
August 5, 2016
Your tattoo is very dense coloured. Blisters appear in that case as a rule.
If you were really determined to have clear skin you could carry on with removing it by smaller areas and using the lowest frequency to avoid horrible blistering.
If you can accept tattoo for good than it was the matter of curiosity I think.
I personally had very successful experience with picosure. But my tattoo was much lighter.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your experience! It was interesting to read your review.
If you were really determined to have clear skin you could carry on with removing it by smaller areas and using the lowest frequency to avoid horrible blistering.
If you can accept tattoo for good than it was the matter of curiosity I think.
I personally had very successful experience with picosure. But my tattoo was much lighter.
Anyway, thank you for sharing your experience! It was interesting to read your review.
August 5, 2016
I don't need negativity or anyone telling me my reasoning for tattoo removal on my blog . The pain I'm experiencing is not something you're told is going to happen - I refuse to put myself through this anymore , it was defiantly not curiosity . Carry on .
August 9, 2016
I'm sorry for your umbearable pain and i know u don't want to hear this but if there's anyway in the future that u could locate a prof. tat removal procedure that would not subject u to this umbearable pain please think about it because the alternative is to keep ur tats which i think are more horrible, ugly, hideous & disgusting looking than the huge blisters but thats just my personal opinion only & no one elses & who am i to say anyway because it's ur body & u can do with ur own body whatever u want to do
August 12, 2016
I'm sorry you're having such a bad time with your Picosure tattoo removal. Like you, I thought about having my densely colored tattoo removed for a long time. Yes, my first three or four treatments were insanely painful and my skin looked terrible: huge, weeping blisters that seemed as though they would never heal. I understand what you mean about wet, weird textured skin underneath the top most layers. I could press on my lasered skin and fluid would rise up from nowhere. I also had big time swelling and weeks of intense pain. Laser tattoo removal is basically a controlled second degree burn. All that being said, despite the horrible pain and lengthy recovery time, I stuck with it. I learned from experience, the more faded the tattoo gets, the less pain and blistering. When the ink is dark and dense, it absorbs more energy from the laser. The worst blisters I've ever had in my life were after the first several tattoo laser treatments. 10-12 treatments in, yeah the laser still hurts like crazy, but I don't look like hamburger afterward anymore. Let yourself heal for 8 weeks or more in between sessions. You may be surprised with the result. The fading of the ink can take many weeks to really be noticeable. When my blistered skin finally dried out, the top layer of skin basically peeled off in the same shape of the tattoo, taking some of the ink with it. Underneath the peeled-off skin was fresh skin with substantially faded ink. I paid a rather hefty, one-time fee for unlimited treatments of my tattoo. I'm glad I did because the number of laser treatments estimated to remove my tattoo has far exceeded the estimates of the doctor and his clinicians. The pain and $$$ have been worth it for me. I'm about 75% faded and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Please don't take my comments as preachy. I just wanted to share my story with you because I had a similar experience, stuck with it and have almost come out of the other side. Also, my doctor and I discovered that Picosure doesn't work very well on red, despite what the Picosure sales literature has to say. The Q Switch laser has been very effective on the red in my tattoo. Of course it's your choice to pursue laser removal, but don't think things won't get better. They WILL!
UPDATED FROM Sabo87
5 days post
Day five post 1 treatment
Sabo87August 3, 2016
My skin is absolutely digesting looking . It's something for real out of a horror movie . The giant blisters have popped and haven't came back like they kept doing the first couple days . But now my skin is like .... I don't even know how to explain it - it moves - like it's wet underneath . Slippery sagging dead skin that is wet . I've never seen anything like this . All these other reviews are so optimistic , and beautiful healing . What's joke on me . I feel ruined . I can't wait for this to be over to see what the damage is under neath this all . I wish to god I would have never started this tattoo removal journey . I wish I could have just accepted it . But noooooo , of course not and now it's ten times worse than what it even was to begin with. So depressed .
Replies (2)
August 3, 2016
Hello,
Don't be so hard on yourself.
Only the brave can endure laser tattoo removal.
We live and learn.
Right now the condition of your arm post treatment is the worst part. Give it a week and keep applying bacitracin so there are no scars. Keep it covered with gauze and always with ointment.
In about five more days all the top layer of gross skin will fall off but do not pick it !!!!!! You will cause scarring!
Once the skin sheds the arm will have very little fading , trust me ! It will look and feel like your original tattooed arm! I would also be suprised if you need a touch up on the ink!
I have been enduring ten years of tattoo removal from the original lasers to the most current .....
This process has taken a toll on my life physically and emotionally! I have so many regrets of first getting a tattoo and second starting this nightmare of laser removal. I am about 35 treatments into this and I am left with a blob no longer identifiable on my leg! And my skin is so scarred with bumps and discoloration that everyday It impacts me in everyday!
I was a ballet dancer and my legs were my prize possession!
I no longer have that!!
Trust me , I very rarely speak of this to anyone , it forces me to realize it is my reality. But I was compelled to reach out to you to fore warn you.... The promises of 5 treatments or 6 turns into many many more and it gets worse.
Embrace your tattoo and love it as it is!
I am sure it is beautiful !
Love yourself and save yourself from the torment you have put on yourself physically and emotionally!
I speak only from a place that knows and wish I could tell everyone that the laser removal has not progressed in the last ten years and not one laser can remove a tattoo as they promise. As I continue my journey I will be sure to shout it out when I find that laser that is all they promise it to be!!
Sending you an embrace and many days ahead loving your tattoo as it is!!!
Don't be so hard on yourself.
Only the brave can endure laser tattoo removal.
We live and learn.
Right now the condition of your arm post treatment is the worst part. Give it a week and keep applying bacitracin so there are no scars. Keep it covered with gauze and always with ointment.
In about five more days all the top layer of gross skin will fall off but do not pick it !!!!!! You will cause scarring!
Once the skin sheds the arm will have very little fading , trust me ! It will look and feel like your original tattooed arm! I would also be suprised if you need a touch up on the ink!
I have been enduring ten years of tattoo removal from the original lasers to the most current .....
This process has taken a toll on my life physically and emotionally! I have so many regrets of first getting a tattoo and second starting this nightmare of laser removal. I am about 35 treatments into this and I am left with a blob no longer identifiable on my leg! And my skin is so scarred with bumps and discoloration that everyday It impacts me in everyday!
I was a ballet dancer and my legs were my prize possession!
I no longer have that!!
Trust me , I very rarely speak of this to anyone , it forces me to realize it is my reality. But I was compelled to reach out to you to fore warn you.... The promises of 5 treatments or 6 turns into many many more and it gets worse.
Embrace your tattoo and love it as it is!
I am sure it is beautiful !
Love yourself and save yourself from the torment you have put on yourself physically and emotionally!
I speak only from a place that knows and wish I could tell everyone that the laser removal has not progressed in the last ten years and not one laser can remove a tattoo as they promise. As I continue my journey I will be sure to shout it out when I find that laser that is all they promise it to be!!
Sending you an embrace and many days ahead loving your tattoo as it is!!!
August 4, 2016
Wow - your reply seriously brought me to tears . Im sitting here writing back to you bawling like a baby .I'm so ashamed of this . I should have just let it be . The pain is almost unbearable , and I have been crying non stop for the past week . I think I'm most afraid of what it's going to look like once it does heal if it ever does . I can't keep the whole thing covered at all times because it's so large ans I can't get it to go around the top shoulder without causing it to pull down on my ruined skin . I am so thankful for your kind words . You really opened my eyes at the fact it could be worse . I hate to hear you've had to endure so many treatments , it's miserable and takes its toll on is mentally and physically .
UPDATED FROM Sabo87
6 days post
Day 6 post 1tx
Sabo87August 4, 2016
Here I am again . Each day thst passes during this healing process creeps too slowly . I'm letting my arm dry out a little bit tonight , the blisters that popped have made my whole arm a wet slippery brown dead skin of a mess . So I'm letting it dry just for tonight . I'll reapply ointment in the am . I would post pictures I'm just so ashamed of the way it looks I can't even bare looking at it myself . I didn't take pictures th first couple days it was blistered I should have , I was just too scared . This is draining me . It's all my mind thinks about , my boyfriend is getting agitated with me cause all I do is complain about how much it hurts and how it looks so awful . He's understanding but I mean come on - ie be a little agitated to to be quite honest . I feel so unsexy for him . This is miserable . I'm going to sleep . Think twice before getting picosure on a large piece . It's not worth it . Embrace what you chose to put on your body . I decided to go ahead of post a couple pictures of 5days after 1 tx.
Replies (3)
August 4, 2016
Please try to hang in there. I felt the same way you do. The healing part is the worst, I hope you feel better once it is healed. Hopefully you see a big change in the fading. Once I got over the first treatment I knew what to expect. I hope you see the light soon
August 4, 2016
Thank you so very much . I hope I do see the light soon . I feel like there is no progression in the healing . It's been 7 days. I am happy to hear there is other people out there that feel the same way I do , it makes realize I'm not as alone in this as much as I feel I am. It's just such a bummer to see other peoples healing so nicely . When I'm stuck here with the unknown of if it even is healing properly .
August 4, 2016
You are definitely not alone.
It takes my healing 2 1/2 to three weeks for all blisters scabs and grossness to go away and the tenderness and sensitivity lingers right up to my next session which I wait 8 weeks in between!
Many times at the 8 weeks I have rescheduled because of panic and exhausted with the process!
And still I trudge in there praying it will be worth it so far not!
If you are going to no longer have the treatment then runaway now to save you the mutilTion of your tattoo as it is and your sanity thru the endless process not to mention the financial aspect!
Until a new laser can guarantee total removal and has clients to prove it
Try to consider living with your sleeve.
I am scheduled to try the newest pico laser just available in my area.
It is the newest laser in the Boston area and only performed by a dermatologist and I will be having a local anesthesia for the first time in ten years of torture !!!
So I will keep you posted with any validity to whatever claims this new technology is offering
It will not be in office until September so I am scheduled not until then
I will keep you posted
It takes my healing 2 1/2 to three weeks for all blisters scabs and grossness to go away and the tenderness and sensitivity lingers right up to my next session which I wait 8 weeks in between!
Many times at the 8 weeks I have rescheduled because of panic and exhausted with the process!
And still I trudge in there praying it will be worth it so far not!
If you are going to no longer have the treatment then runaway now to save you the mutilTion of your tattoo as it is and your sanity thru the endless process not to mention the financial aspect!
Until a new laser can guarantee total removal and has clients to prove it
Try to consider living with your sleeve.
I am scheduled to try the newest pico laser just available in my area.
It is the newest laser in the Boston area and only performed by a dermatologist and I will be having a local anesthesia for the first time in ten years of torture !!!
So I will keep you posted with any validity to whatever claims this new technology is offering
It will not be in office until September so I am scheduled not until then
I will keep you posted
Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you find support in the community.