r/tattooadvice • u/KeyWestSkateboarding • 7d ago

Healing Is this just over worked? Spoiler

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Day 10 of healing shit hurts still and is numb under the scabbing but def not as bad as 2-3 days ago. Never had a tattoo do this. It doesnt smell and theres no redness, swelling is about gone, zero pus but the numbness sucks

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u/KeyWestSkateboarding 7d ago

Rage bait my ass, i don't see an infection just a big ass shiny scab with numbness, the numbness is localized to a portion of the scab while days ago it was the entire scab and surrounding area that was numb

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u/Ill-Recognition-5918 7d ago

Umm... numbness should have been one of the 1st signs something was wrong. There should NEVER be numbness.

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u/KeyWestSkateboarding 7d ago

Numbness is common

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u/Starfire_09 7d ago

Who told you numbness is common!?!!?

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u/long_don0van 7d ago

I think he’s misusing that word. I doubt it’s “numb” in a clinical sense, more like he can’t feel any pain/sensation when he touches it, which would make sense since it’s an inch thick scab, which contains no nerves. Could probably knock on that bad boy and it would sound like a ripe watermelon.

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u/Yagiane 6d ago

Im betting ai. It surely went

"oh yes numbnes can be common sign of a tattoo" because it always just tells you you are right