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Rondo · 08-24-2005, 02:32 AM

I have full sleeves. I started getting tattoos long before it was mainstream. Part of the tattooing ritual (as a right of passage in my opinion) is experiencing the pain. If you can't accept the pain, how dedicated are you really to this design that you say means so much to you? Whatever you do, alcohol is a bad idea, it will, as another poster suggested, thin your blood. Also, be prepared to live with pain and itching and scabbing for a week or more. And, have you considered the potential for infection or of alergic reactions to the ink? Now with all that precautionary, scary stuff out of the way, I have no regrets about getting any of my tattoos. I never thought about any of these things when I started and feel very lucky that that my tats turned out as clean (in every sense of that word) as they did. So, if you are still up for this I would recomend going to a Hypno-therapist to deal with your short term pain issues and bite the bullet for the week or so that your tattoo will be healing.
Hope this helps.

08-24-2005, 02:32 AM	#39 (permalink)
Rondo Registered Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 4 Location: Colorado	Re: Tattoos... can you reduce the pain? I have full sleeves. I started getting tattoos long before it was mainstream. Part of the tattooing ritual (as a right of passage in my opinion) is experiencing the pain. If you can't accept the pain, how dedicated are you really to this design that you say means so much to you? Whatever you do, alcohol is a bad idea, it will, as another poster suggested, thin your blood. Also, be prepared to live with pain and itching and scabbing for a week or more. And, have you considered the potential for infection or of alergic reactions to the ink? Now with all that precautionary, scary stuff out of the way, I have no regrets about getting any of my tattoos. I never thought about any of these things when I started and feel very lucky that that my tats turned out as clean (in every sense of that word) as they did. So, if you are still up for this I would recomend going to a Hypno-therapist to deal with your short term pain issues and bite the bullet for the week or so that your tattoo will be healing. Hope this helps.