Hi guys, right time for the latest update!!!

First off thank you again for yur input and advice as you guys on this forum have provided me with much more sound advice and assistance than that given from various GPs!!!!

Wak, cheers for the info and I appreciate what you have said and take that on board. All I will say is that my wife got a bamboo tattoo from the same shop the day before I got mine and her’s healed rapidly and has given her no probs, looking great at the same time. I guess I just got unlucky or the tattooist got careless when it was my turn!!!

Matt, once again cheers for the help, much appreciated.

Ok, well after a weeks worth of antibiotics sadly to say there has been no improvement, god damn!!!!!! So hasten to add I paid my 4th visit to the docs yesterday intent of coming away with a referal to a dermatologist. I have to ay the doc I saw this time around was the best and most helpful so far. Prob due to the fact she was young and knew some thing about tattoos as apparently her bro is covered in them from head to toe! Anyway she is going to refer me to see a dermatologist but has asked me first to go and visit a tattoo shop, show them my tat and see what they say? I did explain I have had some very good advice from you guys on here and posted a photo but she feels it would be beneficial for a tattooist to see my tattoo in the flesh. So I shall be doing just this over the next few days and will be updating the doc on Saturday.

So the waiting game continues but I shall keep you guys posted. Fingers and toes crossed this will eventually come to a satisfactory and painless closure and wont put me off getting another tattoo in the future???

Cheers folks:)

Hi Karen,
Cheers for your reply and glad to hear other people have had a similar reaction, in a nice way of course!!! I’ve kept it clean since having done as best I can and can only assume it must have got infected whilst still in Thailand before I returned to the UK???? Lets hope it doesnt take too much longer to heal as been 2 months now since I had it done and it’s really getting to me now!!! Will keep you posted!
Cheers
Phil;)

Hi Jubakuba, cheers for the reply. Yep this is a recent pic and yep the tat is peeling on a daily basis! I jsut hope the doc was right and I dont need antibiotics cos personally I believe antibiotics would do the trick but hey I’m no Doctor so who am I to say what’s what!! It’s just a waiting game but is getting to me nowas it’s been almost 2 months since I had the tattoo done!:(

Cheers Mugwump for the advice, not to happy about the septic and die prospect however!

Ok, I hope this has worked. Have set up on photobucket and uploaded pic of tat and have copied and pasted the IMG. link below:

Hope this works??????

Cheers
Phil:)

Hi Matt, Cheers for the advice once again.

Well the update is as follows: Stopped using the hydrochloride cream as wasnt doing anything, got some Aqueus cream as advised from doctor and that wasnt making any difference either apart from temporarily keeping the skin supple. So have stopped putting creams on and just been keeping it clean. I have to say it seems to improved a little, as my wife pointed out only yesterday! However, it’s still peeling and there are still some red blotches under the skin. So, I went to the docs again this morning for the 3rd time and once again I felt like I got nowhere!!!!!!!

I asked if I could have some antibiotics now as all other suggestions of creams have failed. To this the doc didnt feel that antibiotics would help!!!! Instead he suggested the red blotches may be Keloid scars!!!!! I know what these are and they are nothing like the red blotches I have!!! He then said that worse case scenario I will have to have the whole tattoo cut out!!!!! Basically he just said to leave it and see what happens…..cheers doc….you’ve been most helpful!!!!

So the waiting game continues and I guess that’s all the choice I have at this stage! I’m going to try and upload a photo on here once I suss out how to do it, maybe this will generate some more advice from you guys? In fact, how do you upload a photo to a thread?

Cheers
Phil;)

Hi Matt,

Thank you very much for your reply and advice, much appreciated;)

I have decided to stop using any creams on the tattoo other than Aqueous to moisturise for the time being and to simply wash in clean soapy water 3 times a day as you have advised. I shall see how I get on with that and if still no improvement I shall return once again to the docs and no doubt get some antibiotics.

The bamboo tattoo was the needle kind not the raw sharpened bamboo. If it is rejecting the pigmant what happens then?

Thanks again and I’ll keep you posted as to the outcome, fingers crossed will see itself right before long!

Cheers

Phil:)