Hi peeps... would any of you know how long post op you have to be before you can get tattoos again? Or does it even really matter... I'm pretty tatt'd up and just wanted to know a timeframe.... Thanks!

Post op isn't as important, but if you're still taking the blood thinners I'd wait, unless you enjoy bleeding like a stuck pig

I have a couple more that I want but I'm kind of waiting to see how bad the ones I have get first

Thank u. a part of me wants to wait cuz i don't want my stuff all saggy lol then ill be upset haha.

Yeah that's kinda my issue... I'm really concerned about the one on my calf, but i guess we'll see how it goes.

I only waited 7 weeks after my Surgery (Jan6th) to get a new Tattoo. I have a few already and have yet to see any of them change .....yet

I wanted to get my first tattoo, but the artist said that I should wait until I lost all my weight. Mine design uses straight lines and it would be especially distorted by weight loss.

I'm 47 and have to lose about 60% of my total weight so I already have interesting skin.

I'm going to wait.

Funny this should pop up today. I want my first tattoo also and was seriously thinking of doing it today. I am just about 2 weeks post op. Now I think I'll wait a couple of weeks.

I don't know that there is a "mandatory" waiting period, other than generically until you're healed - for teh reasons like blood thinners stated above, and maybe because IF you got an infection, it would be that much harder for a freshly post-op body to recover from it.

I used to want a tat so bad back when I was like 17. I still do, but I'm a wuss. I'm glad I didn't go for it back then (when I was a normal weight) because... eww... I don't even want to think about what it would look like now.

I ay unwuss and get a tat one of these days, but it would be well into maintenance, once I felt confident that I could keep the tat looking like, say, the letter "A" and not get fat again and have it end up looking like a ninja throwing star.

I don't know that there is a "mandatory" waiting period' date=' other than generically until you're healed - for teh reasons like blood thinners stated above, and maybe because IF you got an infection, it would be that much harder for a freshly post-op body to recover from it.

I used to want a tat so bad back when I was like 17. I still do, but I'm a wuss. I'm glad I didn't go for it back then (when I was a normal weight) because... eww... I don't even want to think about what it would look like now.

I ay unwuss and get a tat one of these days, but it would be well into maintenance, once I felt confident that I could keep the tat looking like, say, the letter "A" and not get fat again and have it end up looking like a ninja throwing star.[/quote']

A ninja throwing a star?! LMAO I'm sorry I really laughed out loud when I read that!! Totally agree.. I think I will wait it out.. as Much as I can..I love tattoos;)

I had been thinking about a tatoo as well. When I had my tummy tuck a few years back, I had a vine and flowers with butterflies tatooed over the scar. I was looking at my incisions and drain scar that will be forming and thought of adding more butterflies and flowers. Nothing like a little body art.

I got my "new beginnings" tat one week after surgery.