Ouch!! Began laser treatment today

[flyershoe]

I just wanted to whine and complain a bit...

I know we had that thread a while ago about being 'inked' and I think that I mentioned in the post that one of my tats, I regret. It's my "I'm cool, I'm 18" armband with the horrible placement and mediocre quality. Well, I've begun the process of having it removed... I was kinda prompted to get it because my girlfriend is having laser hair removal now, which she raved about. I started thinking about doing it myself, and then though "hmm... laser hair removal, laser tattoo removal... what the hell, let's do it all!"

So I'm in the process of getting my underarms & bikini area lasered, as well as having my tattoo removed. The underarms were fast with minimal pain, bikini, more pain, of course. So after the bikini I was thinking "ahh, this tattoo should be a piece of cake!"

Oh boy was I wrong!! She injected me with a numbing agent, which was bad enough (I get weird about needles, and with her pushing on my arm and whatnot, I started feeling woozy).. and since we took a brief break when I started feeling woozy, I think the lidocaine started wearing off. Anyway, once she started the laser, as long as she hit a place that was totally numb, it felt fine. Where she'd missed or it had worn off - OWWWWWWWWWW!!!! YIKES. The lasering was the fastest part of the procedure, but it was not fun. And of course I find out after the fact that taking advil, aspirin or other NSAID's contributes to bleeding and bruising! Tylenol only!! I'd taken two advil in advance.. which would've been fine for the hair removal, but not the tattoo. Oh boy. So now my arm hurts way worse than it did when I got the stupid tattoo. When she was done, it looked really gross.. I'm trying not to peek under the bandage too much, but I want to see what it looks like. It's starting to seep a little bit, so I may have to change it anyway. I've decided to keep a photo diary of it, so if you're interested, you'll be able to see it on my 101 list blog.

In the end, I'm glad that I'm having it done, but I wasn't expecting this much pain!!!!

/rant