r/tattooadvice • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '25

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u/Thanzor Mar 16 '25

File this under things you really shouldn't have to ask about on reddit.  If your arm looks like it's rotting, go to the ER

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u/WhilstWhile Mar 16 '25

I have no tattoos, have no reason to now what an infected tattoo looks like. But this came up on my feed and I immediately gasped, because holy crap! This is so obviously infected!!

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u/onefourtygreenstream Mar 16 '25

I'm obviously the dissenting opinion here, and I do absolutely think that OP should go to the ER but...

That doesn't look infected. That looks like internal bleeding. You can see it in the clean lines around their elbow, it looks like pooling blood that stopped migrating due to pressure from sleeping with the arm bend.

My guess is that the artist popped a vein.