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do not have go tattless tattoo removal - Jacksonville, FL
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I wanted to warn everyone about the dangerous...
blondebunnyMarch 4, 2016
$400
I wanted to warn everyone about the dangerous experimental procedure call go tattless. I had the procedure done almost 3 months ago it was sold to me on the idea that it was less painful little recovery and more successful than laser tattoo removal.
However this couldn't be further from the truth. the procedure itself even though youre numbed with lidocaine hurts extremely bad and I have a very high pain tolerance they use something similar to a tattoo gun and dig into your skin. The process has also been dubbed de-tattooing . There's also a ton of bleeding a few days later a horrific scab forms you also can not get the area wet at all it lessens the effect of the solution they put on you after.
After a few days thr scab is supposed to fall off taking some of the ink with it .
THIS WAS NOT THE CASE! Instead anytime there was the slightest movement in or around the area i was in extreme pain !!! It felt as though my skin was being ripped off of me and within a week i had an infection which made the pain worse. The office did call me in a prescription for antibiotics.
I could hardly sleep if i moved i would instantly wake up in pain . This was unbearable, and im someone who has gone under the knife for invasive plastic surgery in the past.
After the scabs fell off completely the tattoo it self was hardly faded!!! A complete waste of time, pain ,tears and MONEY! Im also now left with a almost 2 inch keloid scar on my right side and half inch keloid on the left .
I DO NOT recommend the go tattless procedure for any one!!! Its extremely dangerous and very invasive not to mention expensive (it costs way more than laser removal ) .
If you are thinking of trying go tattless DON'T YOU WILL REGRET IT!! this horrible, barbaric, over priced procedure left me with two scars , bad memories and a dent in my bank account.
There are better options out there
However this couldn't be further from the truth. the procedure itself even though youre numbed with lidocaine hurts extremely bad and I have a very high pain tolerance they use something similar to a tattoo gun and dig into your skin. The process has also been dubbed de-tattooing . There's also a ton of bleeding a few days later a horrific scab forms you also can not get the area wet at all it lessens the effect of the solution they put on you after.
After a few days thr scab is supposed to fall off taking some of the ink with it .
THIS WAS NOT THE CASE! Instead anytime there was the slightest movement in or around the area i was in extreme pain !!! It felt as though my skin was being ripped off of me and within a week i had an infection which made the pain worse. The office did call me in a prescription for antibiotics.
I could hardly sleep if i moved i would instantly wake up in pain . This was unbearable, and im someone who has gone under the knife for invasive plastic surgery in the past.
After the scabs fell off completely the tattoo it self was hardly faded!!! A complete waste of time, pain ,tears and MONEY! Im also now left with a almost 2 inch keloid scar on my right side and half inch keloid on the left .
I DO NOT recommend the go tattless procedure for any one!!! Its extremely dangerous and very invasive not to mention expensive (it costs way more than laser removal ) .
If you are thinking of trying go tattless DON'T YOU WILL REGRET IT!! this horrible, barbaric, over priced procedure left me with two scars , bad memories and a dent in my bank account.
There are better options out there
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Replies (5)
March 9, 2016
Ultimately, this wasn’t the procedure for you, the aftercare was too overwhelming, and I understand that. Perhaps this is not for everyone. Experience of pain and discomfort is a very subjective thing, and what may be horrifying to one person is tolerable to another. I hope this helps clarify some things. I still stand by this treatment as a viable option for the very difficult problem of an unwanted tattoo.
March 9, 2016
I'm truly sorry that you had such a terrible experience with GoTattless, and I wish that we had had more of an opportunity to discuss your concerns before this review.
We do our best to try and educate patients prior to treatment, and if we failed to help you understand the healing process and what to expect, then that was our fault. Since we started performing the procedure in our office, the response has been quite positive. Patients are returning for follow up treatments and seeing their tattoos lighten and go away, so this experience being so awful for you is quite surprising.
The ideal procedure for removing tattoos would be painless, instantaneous, need no healing to happen and would completely eliminate the tattoo in one treatment. However, we are nowhere close to achieving this in our day and age. There is not a perfect procedure, but I still really feel this is one of the better ones out there.
In some sense, every procedure we perform in our office can be described as barbaric. We burn your face, fillet your flesh, inject you with poison, melt and freeze off and suck out your fat, and insert prosthetic silicone devices, all in the name of beauty, and there is not one procedure we do that doesn't hurt, bleed, cause pain in the healing process or potentially scar the body. Getting a tattoo is technically a barbaric procedure, as a foreign ink is jabbed into the skin repeatedly to discolor it permanently. It bleeds, has the potential for infection, and can also leave scars. They are done with the idea that they will be there for the rest of a person's life. Getting a tattoo is a choice, we are simply here offering an alternative solution for tattoo removal.
I do need to clarify a few things in your letter though. This is not an experimental procedure. It has been performed for many years with good success and a very low complication rate before it was called GoTattless.
The procedure itself involves the use of a tattoo gun to remove some skin cells from the surface of the skin, and allow the tissues to become porous. This process involves bleeding, and the bleeding is what helps get the ink up too. It is about the same amount of bleeding that is seen when a tattoo artist creates a tattoo. The bleeding usually stops by the time we are done with the procedure, however, a serous fluid can ooze for a few days afterwards. We do not keep these parts of the process a secret, and try to inform patients this during the consultation.
There is a scab that forms over the course of a few days and it takes variable amounts of ink off with it when it falls off. The scab is very similar to a deep road rash. It feels tight and tender to the touch, and takes up to two weeks to completely fall off. The photos that you sent us shows the typical scab that forms. It did not appear infected, just going through the normal healing process.
The skin underneath undergoes a healing and can turn different shades of pink and or lighten up. This can take several weeks to up to a few months before it returns to normal. I have not yet seen hypertrophic scarring, and never a keloid with this process. I have seen hypertrophic scarring with laser treatments, and almost every time. There is a good chance that your scarring was caused by the laser which you had performed afterwards, because the photos that were sent before the laser treatment did not show this scarring. There is also a possibility that the skin was scarred by the tattoo itself, and that the removal of the ink has made it more obvious. These are all possibilities.
The tattoo lightening process takes an average of 3-6 treatments. It is variable from person to person, but about 20-30% lightening is seen on average, some more and some less. We make no claims otherwise. One treatment is absolutely not going to fully remove a tattoo. I've seen people go through 10 very painful laser treatments and still have ink present and thick scar in the place where the ink used to be.
I have personally undergone 2 treatments with GoTattless on the same tattoo. The process felt initially like getting a tattoo, (which hurts) but then the numbing kicked in and it was uncomfortable but not unbearable. It is not overly pleasant, but I would not describe it as anything more than touchy, weepy, annoying and uncomfortable for the first week, and tight for a few weeks more. The drainage from the area is not infection, but part of the healing process. My tattoo is about half as dark as it used to be in some areas, and the ink is completely gone in others. I noticed more ink removal with the second treatment than the first, and the healing seemed much quicker the second time. I had a little bit of skin lightening around the edges, but that is starting to go away, as is the pink color if the skin. I could easily get a cover-up over it if I wanted to, but I plan to keep removing it for now.
We do our best to try and educate patients prior to treatment, and if we failed to help you understand the healing process and what to expect, then that was our fault. Since we started performing the procedure in our office, the response has been quite positive. Patients are returning for follow up treatments and seeing their tattoos lighten and go away, so this experience being so awful for you is quite surprising.
The ideal procedure for removing tattoos would be painless, instantaneous, need no healing to happen and would completely eliminate the tattoo in one treatment. However, we are nowhere close to achieving this in our day and age. There is not a perfect procedure, but I still really feel this is one of the better ones out there.
In some sense, every procedure we perform in our office can be described as barbaric. We burn your face, fillet your flesh, inject you with poison, melt and freeze off and suck out your fat, and insert prosthetic silicone devices, all in the name of beauty, and there is not one procedure we do that doesn't hurt, bleed, cause pain in the healing process or potentially scar the body. Getting a tattoo is technically a barbaric procedure, as a foreign ink is jabbed into the skin repeatedly to discolor it permanently. It bleeds, has the potential for infection, and can also leave scars. They are done with the idea that they will be there for the rest of a person's life. Getting a tattoo is a choice, we are simply here offering an alternative solution for tattoo removal.
I do need to clarify a few things in your letter though. This is not an experimental procedure. It has been performed for many years with good success and a very low complication rate before it was called GoTattless.
The procedure itself involves the use of a tattoo gun to remove some skin cells from the surface of the skin, and allow the tissues to become porous. This process involves bleeding, and the bleeding is what helps get the ink up too. It is about the same amount of bleeding that is seen when a tattoo artist creates a tattoo. The bleeding usually stops by the time we are done with the procedure, however, a serous fluid can ooze for a few days afterwards. We do not keep these parts of the process a secret, and try to inform patients this during the consultation.
There is a scab that forms over the course of a few days and it takes variable amounts of ink off with it when it falls off. The scab is very similar to a deep road rash. It feels tight and tender to the touch, and takes up to two weeks to completely fall off. The photos that you sent us shows the typical scab that forms. It did not appear infected, just going through the normal healing process.
The skin underneath undergoes a healing and can turn different shades of pink and or lighten up. This can take several weeks to up to a few months before it returns to normal. I have not yet seen hypertrophic scarring, and never a keloid with this process. I have seen hypertrophic scarring with laser treatments, and almost every time. There is a good chance that your scarring was caused by the laser which you had performed afterwards, because the photos that were sent before the laser treatment did not show this scarring. There is also a possibility that the skin was scarred by the tattoo itself, and that the removal of the ink has made it more obvious. These are all possibilities.
The tattoo lightening process takes an average of 3-6 treatments. It is variable from person to person, but about 20-30% lightening is seen on average, some more and some less. We make no claims otherwise. One treatment is absolutely not going to fully remove a tattoo. I've seen people go through 10 very painful laser treatments and still have ink present and thick scar in the place where the ink used to be.
I have personally undergone 2 treatments with GoTattless on the same tattoo. The process felt initially like getting a tattoo, (which hurts) but then the numbing kicked in and it was uncomfortable but not unbearable. It is not overly pleasant, but I would not describe it as anything more than touchy, weepy, annoying and uncomfortable for the first week, and tight for a few weeks more. The drainage from the area is not infection, but part of the healing process. My tattoo is about half as dark as it used to be in some areas, and the ink is completely gone in others. I noticed more ink removal with the second treatment than the first, and the healing seemed much quicker the second time. I had a little bit of skin lightening around the edges, but that is starting to go away, as is the pink color if the skin. I could easily get a cover-up over it if I wanted to, but I plan to keep removing it for now.
June 9, 2016
This seems extremely dramatic to me, I just had the procedure done yesterday. I used numbing cream first and could barely feel a thing. I am not in extreme pain whatsoever, slept fine. It's too bad this above mentioned experience was such a negative one, maybe it is the person who administered the treatment.
September 15, 2016
I feel your pain... I went through 7 maybe 8 treatments, my tattoo is still visible! I recently went in for a consultation for Picosure laser. However, they told me my tattoo was not treatable due to what I had done previously, thanks, go tattless.... I am out of options at this point
Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope you find support in the community.