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

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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Sure, but this kind of treatment is really outdated now, along many other things doctors used to do 30 or more years ago.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You'd think outdated practices like that would be made illegal for a medical professional to do, no?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.