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I am up waaaaaay too late to be writing in LJ, especially considering how early I have to leave, but I'm having difficulties. My tattoo, which I've had...almost two years now? periodically itches and swells up. It's on the back of my neck, and I try so so hard not to scratch at it but I can't help tracing it with my fingertips. Normally, it's like...not even there. Just something I'm aware of a lot, mostly when my hair is up or my shirt is low--

Especially since people seem to feel that a tattoo you can see is a tattoo you can touch, whether or not you know the person who has it. People are constantly putting their hands on my neck and saying, "What does it mean?" (Chinese symbol, kind of--a mix of dream and believe)

But, anyway, sometimes it itches, like I said, and tonight it's burning and so swollen that I could like...ink it and make a stamp. I know that image prolly doesn't make sense but it's 1am and I'm incoherent. Does anyone else with tats experience this? My sister doesn't, neither does her husband, or does my mom or Kerri's mom or Kerri herself, so I'm at a loss. But, seriously, oww. Can't sleep. Heeeeeelp?

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[brynna.livejournal.com]

One of mine, the older of the two (two years in a month), will get slightly inflamed/raised when there's some trauma to the skin near it (i.e. if I get a bug bite within an inch of it). I have no idea why, and I haven't asked anyone...maybe I should call the person who did my second one (that I have no problems with whatsoever) and ask, but really, it doesn't worry me or anything, so I don't. Is yours filled in/thicker than a single line? The one that does react is thicker lines and colored, the new one is black and just a thin outline...

If you find out a reason for it, do let me know, I'm kinda curious now... :)