My Tattoo Removal Story...

I found photos of the same two tattoos after 1 Q-switched laser treatment. Looking at these photos the progress seems greater than just looking of the most recent photos of laser sessions I've had... I'm trying to be better about not wasting time staring at my tattoos or photos of my tattoos for too long.

I've had an account on this site for awhile but had yet to post about my experience with tattoo removal. Recently though, my desperation and anxiety over my tattoo removal process has been really bad so I thought I would look to this site for support.

The summer after my junior year of college I got a small tattoo on my back that was an outline of the face of a painting by an artist I liked that I was really happy with. Then my senior year of college I decided to get a few other small line tattoos that I also liked. Two were small roses on my upper right and left sides and the third was another line drawing on the back of my left arm by another artist I liked. A few weeks later, I started obsessing about how I didn't like how the two line drawing tattoos looked and, not knowing about tattoo removal, decided to get them covered. I got the one on the back of my left arm covered with a huge butterfly and the one on my back covered with a huge flower. I got another tattoo of a small pair of eyes and tears coming out of them on my right arm, which I then decided to get covered with more flowers because the tears were crooked... Again, this tattoo would have been so easy to remove with laser. Basically, I AM TOO INDECISIVE to ever have gotten tattoos. I started freaking out and having panic attacks about all of these tattoos and starting looking up ways to remove them. When I moved back home after school, I started getting the two tattoos on my arms removed at a place that had a Q-switched laser and decided to wait on removal for the one on my back since it wasn't as visible. After 7 removal sessions I started giving up and stupidly thought to myself that I might as well get 2 more tattoos since these were never going to be able to be removed. I, again, freaked out. I kept doing laser on the butterfly and flowers because the place I went to upgraded to a Quanta Discovery PICO machine which I figured would work a lot better than before and on the other two tattoos I decided to try Tatt2away. I just had my 3rd sessions of PICO done and am starting to give up hope again that this is going to work. I've barely seen any progress and now I'm also worried about the Tatt2away procedure healing well on the other tattoos I have. I've only had 2 sessions so far of that procedure and it has removed the ink really well in most spots but I have a few spots that have keloided. I haven't worn short sleeved/sleeveless shirts or dated anyone in months because I am so insecure about the way my arms look. I have never been so depressed in my life.. the weather is starting to get warm again and I really don't know what to do. I haven't documented the process very well but have attached the photos I have so far from my laser removal process.

Any words of encouragement or tips about this kind of laser would be much appreciated!