# Tattoo Cyst
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 25, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919 "2016-08-25T15:56:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/1 "2016-08-25T15:56:22Z")
A bad tattoo causes a pocket of infection…GF pulls chunks of “bubble gum” out of his back until…BINGO!
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QHrbwH7T0)
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/2 "2016-08-25T16:29:45Z")
Other than the complete lack of basic sanitary and communicable disease precautions (not to mention lack of proper instrumentation and horrible technique), looks like just another day in the office to me.
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/3 "2016-08-25T17:25:18Z")
**Tattoo Cyst**
Band name!
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### Author:  [@jasnooks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasnooks)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/4 "2016-08-25T17:46:18Z")
What’s with putting that shit on his arm?
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/5 "2016-08-25T18:08:59Z")
Show’n’Tell!
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### Author:  [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/6 "2016-08-25T19:06:02Z")
Funnily enough, the next thread after this one is “home surgery fails.”
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### Author:  [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/7 "2016-08-25T20:36:41Z")
What, exactly, IS the “pink bubble gum” material that’s being pulled out of there? Dead skin/fat/muscle? Coagulated pus? Dark matter from a parallel universe?
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### Author:  [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/8 "2016-08-25T20:40:30Z")
Looks like wet stuffing material/cotton.
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### Author:  [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/9 "2016-08-25T20:51:22Z")
I am never ever clicking on that link. Ever.
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/10 "2016-08-25T21:04:06Z")
> [@cwthree](#):
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> What, exactly, IS the “pink bubble gum” material that’s being pulled out of there? Dead skin/fat/muscle? Coagulated pus? Dark matter from a parallel universe?
Cyst capsule? But that doesn’t explain why the worst stuff comes out after all the solid material is gone. I thought the capsule encapsulated the ickies, not blocked them into the surrounding tissue.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/11 "2016-08-26T00:19:56Z")
WTF with putting “trophies” on the person’s lower forearm?
Interesting range of, er, debris coming out of there…
Are they using a _shirt_ to mop up some of that? And towels.
Wow, that’s an epic quantity of pus at the end.
Geez, how about seeing an actual doctor for something that bad?
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/12 "2016-08-26T03:10:53Z")
> [@cwthree](#):
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> What, exactly, IS the “pink bubble gum” material that’s being pulled out of there? Dead skin/fat/muscle? Coagulated pus? Dark matter from a parallel universe?
I’ve popped my share of my own pockets-o-pus and had chunks come out.
Does pus become “fibrous” under certain conditions?
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/13 "2016-08-26T04:14:27Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#):
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> I’ve popped my share of my own pockets-o-pus and had chunks come out.
> Does pus become “fibrous” under certain conditions?
Yes, it can. It can form a core which must be removed, as should any loculations, which is a $10 word for pockets that can form around the main pus chamber. If a cavity remains, it needs to be packed so it can stay open and drain; the packing is removed, and possibly replaced, a couple days later.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/14 "2016-08-26T04:37:17Z")
Now that I actually looked at the link, I just want to say that this clip has been online for a long time (it was the chunks on his arm :eek: that gave it away) and let’s face it: if he could afford all that ink, he could have afforded to have it done correctly by a physician.
:smack:
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/15 "2016-08-26T12:53:19Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#):
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> I am never ever clicking on that link. Ever.
Seconded. We should start a support group
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/16 "2016-08-26T19:03:14Z")
At the end, it looked like you could pump about 10 barrels a day from that well.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/17 "2016-08-26T20:34:45Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#):
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> I am never ever clicking on that link. Ever.
I’m right there with you, sister.
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/18 "2016-08-26T22:28:07Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#):
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> I am never ever clicking on that link. Ever.
I know but why am I still tempted. Somehow I want to know if I can take it. I can’t take it, can I?
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/19 "2016-08-26T22:35:52Z")
> [@gigi](#):
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> I know but why am I still tempted. Somehow I want to know if I can take it. I can’t take it, can I?
It’s just purulent drainage. You can’t smell it. _That_ is the tough part to get used to (and I have).
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/20 "2016-08-26T22:40:08Z")
It is _amazing_ how much puss the human body can produce.
This case, it was pressurized.
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