Hi Junah

You sometimes find that tattoos with heavy pigmentation can flare up as the skin is irritated by inflamed scar tissue beneath the skin.

It can also become raised in exposure to heat especially showers, baths, steam rooms, also when you sweat. I tend to find I get prickly feel and raised which tends to go down quite fast.

There is not a lot you can do about it but I have tried the following that helps.

Ice pack the area or wet a tea towel and freeze in your freezer then wrap or lay over the arm and keep on as long as possible.

Green Tea – helps flush toxins from the body i recommend it being iced (swig it down quicker) as hot is pretty foul tasting.

Anti-inflammatories such as ibruprofen (health allowing) a few days of a light course will often help bring the swelling down.

Also try some Vit E cream on the skin.

Pigment reaction is sadly a pain in the arse because your body is trying to flush a foreign body (the ink) from the skin.

Take Care
Matthew

I know the feeling dude, the one on my chest raises a bit and itches when I’ve been at footy training. Strangely enough, that’s the one one that does it though. It never lasts more than 5 minutes after I’ve stopped training though.

Hmm idk…I only got 1 so far and it was raised and itchy…until it healed fully about 4 weeks after I got it i think. It’s now almost 2 years later and it hasnt done that since so I don’t really think it’s supposed to do that after it fully heals…could be a allergic reaction or something with the weather? You might want to ask a doctor..I wouldnt be concerned/worried about it though.

O_O I knew it didnt sound normal but HIV is serious…Junah I would definetly see a doctor. Hopefully it’s nothing serious though. In fact most tatoo artists only use each needle once for each customer so as not to spread hiv and stuff like that. However ones less professional may not (not ones you want to get tattooed by of course) and also if you notice they shop or place dirty you may want to leave…so if the tattooist reused the needle on you after using it on someone else or has a dirty workplace i’d say that’s a possiblity but I doubt that was the case. Hopefully not.

You must be completely devoid of sense of humor to post something like this.

By the way, is partially stupid or partially retarded a thing? is that like having that one really dumb leg or down syndrome of the left breast? I’m sure in med school they went over this but if you have a lecture ready I would love to hear it.

PS Since I know you have retardation of the funny bone, let me add that the second part of my post, starting with “by the way” and ending with “would love to hear it” are a kind of joke/poke back at you and should be taken with a sense of humor.

the black in the upper arm of my tat raises and ithches when i get stressed… i could care less thought since its only for minutes so no biggie