Phantom pains?

[Kumoku]

So I got my shoulder/arm tattooed about one year ago. It's a small-medium size tattoo, and it healed no problem. However, sometimes I notice I get "phantom pains" right where the tattoo (all over the tattoo, not localized to any specific part of the tattoo) is. Like, it feels like a bunch of tiny needles are sticking in my arm where my tattoo is. I read online that 10-35% of people who have tattoos will get these kinds of phantom pains. 

Anyone else get these with specific tattoos? How do you deal with it? I've noticed if I put moisturizer over it, it heelps soothe it, but doesn't make it entirely go away.  The attachment is a photo of my tattoo for those curious. 

Edited September 2, 2018 by Kumoku

[SStu]

not me . . . 

[oboogie]

Never heard of it.

[Gingerninja]

Nope, not me.

[Dan]

not ever had it here either.

[tcgjake]

I get this sensation over a scarred portion of a Friday the 13th tattoo I got a couple years ago. I actually haven't gotten it in a few months so maybe I don't anymore but it felt similar (needle poking sensation and would last 10-15 seconds max).

Unrelated but I've been thinking about adding to the tattoo (it is one of the aliens from Toy Story) but I am undecided because I'm kind of attached to the scarring. I ended up growing to like the warn out, beat up look it gave the little alien.

[scottyg]

My leg piece feels sensitive to the touch/irritated pretty much all the time. It healed fine. I think I just have sensitive skin. God help me when this back piece is finished....

Btw, if it's pain it ain't phantom.

[Hogrider]

On September 2, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Kumoku said:

I read online that 10-35% of people who have tattoos will get these kinds of phantom pains. 

They lied. I've never even heard of it.

[MartinP]

Did you find out why you have this symptoms? I have the same on my 1 year old tattoo, + some soft sunburn feelings sometimes, but I don''t have anything like red skin around the tattoo.

[Mii]

Yes I feel the same, I got a tattoo ten months ago and It still hurts and It is swollen sometimes. It occurs randomly and the truth is I don't know what to do.

[ashBoy]

Yeah i have this sometimes, out of 6 tattoos i have it only happens with the thigh one - part of the tat reaches the inner thigh and that's where it did hurt more so now i can feel some kind of poking sensation as when it was tattooed but not this much obviously. 

[Asthma Inhaler Jim]

Im not sure if its exactly what you are saying but after my first tattoo i got healed, there was a time when i thought i felt some sort of tinglyness in that area of my arm and actually thought to myself maybe it was an allergic reaction to the ink. i havnt really felt anything like that since then though. 

 

 

[Rainz]

Strange enough I just had my right calf tattooed a few days ago and for about the last two of those I've felt the same, mild warmth/slight discomfort in my untattooed left leg. Looked it over, stretched it and even iced it. Kinda a different thing then what your talking about but I do have a spider bite (brown recluse) scar that still hurts from time to time.

[V.H]

I have same problem!! Not every day but sometimes I have feelings like I getting tattoo again.unfortunately this won't go away and it's a phantom pain we have to tolerate it.

I'll put a cream on it , it helps