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swelling after a tatto

1 message · last activity 4/2/2009

hi there i had a tatto done in Augest 08 on my right lower leg. It was all fine untill a week later i had alot of pain in my leg and it was verry swollen. i went down the doctors and they sent me straight up hospital thinking it was a blood clot i had blood tests and scans but they could not see a clot the hospital sent me home saying if it was no better in 4 day go back to gp i left it 5 days and went bk they addmited me in to hospital i was in there a day and nite and there sent me home with warfarin injections to inject in to my belly in case they had missed the clot i am still seeing my consultant up hospital and still having tests till this day the hospital are now saying the tattooist wen to far in my leg and the meedle went into a tenden and the hospital say that it has cased RSD which can also spreed to the other leg.