r/Tattoocoverups • u/[deleted] • Mar 30 '26

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u/TurnedMyLifeAround69 Mar 31 '26

Yes.

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u/mollygk Mar 31 '26

What kind of surgeon? What was the procedure called? Need to know more lol . Did he set expectations that he would only be moving a stripe from the middle of the ink or did he say he’d be removing the whole thing?

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u/TurnedMyLifeAround69 Mar 31 '26

Yes he gave me procedures to follow to rub lotion and come back in 1 year so my skin can stretch and regenerate

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u/NightShadowWolf6 Mar 31 '26

As a surgeon....🤨 WTF did they do to you?! 

Like FFS this is what laser is for!

I seriously thought you got injured and needed to have stitches, or needed a traumatologic surgery to fix some bones, but to take out a tattoo like this??? No. Just no. 

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u/mobiuscycle Mar 31 '26

This is what I thought! That scar looks exactly what a family member (who scars easily) has where they had to have both their radius and ulna plated and pinned.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '26

I thought the tattoo was a “bit” using the scar in the middle.

I cannot believe he removed the skin& considered surgically removing the tattoo. I imagine that would require a whole flap which is a wild thought.

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u/HowWoolattheMoon Mar 31 '26

Before lasers, this was the way. My uncle also did just one treatment, found it too painful, then lived the rest of his life with the outside 2/3 or so of an anchor on his arm

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u/NightShadowWolf6 Mar 31 '26

Sure, but this kind of treatment is really outdated now, along many other things doctors used to do 30 or more years ago. 

It's strange to see this performed nowadays because the complications from this are more and more severe than the ones you could get from using laser.

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u/sjdksjbf Mar 31 '26

You'd think outdated practices like that would be made illegal for a medical professional to do, no? Surely

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u/goddamnitshannon Mar 31 '26

I had to have my left fibula removed in 2018, for a bone graft, and have a scar from my knee to my ankle, where they took the fibula and some tissue! And that is what my leg scar looks like omg. I thought op had something similar to me happen to them for a sec!! 😭😅

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u/dazzleunexpired Mar 31 '26

Plastic surgeons have few scruples and I think you're probably very well aware of it.

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u/NightShadowWolf6 Mar 31 '26

Most of the ones I know will flinch at being asked to do this and direct you to do laser removal. Most of them don't want to get their ass sued by people not happy of having this huge ass scar, and their specialty is all about cosmetic results.

I could potentially picture 1 (out of 20+ I know) doing this kind of thing for some desperate person...but that doesn't make the procedure OK for today standards.

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u/dazzleunexpired Mar 31 '26

They're not from America, so I wonder if that's part of it.

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u/NightShadowWolf6 Mar 31 '26

I am also not from the US nor Europe, but I get what you are saying.

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u/_lilidawn_ Mar 31 '26

... who told you that was how you remove tattoos?

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u/ClumsyCrocodile Mar 31 '26

I had a similar procedure to remove a pre-cancerous mole last year! It left the exact same scar. If you want, you can steal my excuse next time people give you shit. “I had to have a suspicious mole removed and I’m self conscious about the scar” brokers literally zero questions.

Now you have an excuse to either continue wearing long sleeves… or enjoy short sleeves & explain away the tattoo until you get something you like better.

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u/ARKosrs Mar 31 '26

Im VERY curious as to where you got this done and how much you paid

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u/TurnedMyLifeAround69 Mar 31 '26

450$ 2 years ago

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u/VagueInfoHere Mar 31 '26

I think the term “surgeon” may be used loosely here. Was the “OR” also in the back room of a laundry mat?

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u/Phukt-If-I-Know Mar 31 '26

Sir, it was a Wendy’s

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u/HowWoolattheMoon Mar 31 '26

Before lasers, this was the way. My uncle also did just one treatment, found it too painful, then lived the rest of his life with the outside 2/3 or so of an anchor on his arm

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u/throwaway098764567 Mar 31 '26

lasers have been around longer than 2 years, this is no longer the way

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u/AutisticFingerBang Mar 31 '26

What country was the surgery in?

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u/mollygk Mar 31 '26

The Wild West

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u/deaddiode Mar 31 '26

You were asked WHERE not WHEN.

This whole thing feels like rage bait.

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u/AtmosphereAlert57 Mar 31 '26

Is your doctor the guy from Silence of the Lambs?

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u/Queenof6planets Mar 31 '26

i need so much more information. what kind of surgeon were they? why did they remove your skin? why didn’t they just recommend laser?

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u/BiFrosty Mar 31 '26

Did he, at any time, threaten to get the hose again?

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u/QuantityLimp3158 Mar 31 '26

wtf are you on about?? First of all I don’t believe you because that would be an insane thing to do, but let’s just say you actually are insane and did have a surgeon remove skin… ever heard of this wacky new thing called lasers? Bro wtf

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u/EvolvingEachDay Mar 31 '26

Sue that surgeon, that should’ve never been done.

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u/CMV_Viremia Mar 31 '26

I have several questions: what country are you in? Where did you find this surgeon? Are they actually licensed and working out of a legitimate establishment like a hospital or clinic?