People with compromised immune systems should be aware of the potential risks of getting a tattoo, doctors have warned, after a woman experienced chronic pain months after she had been tattooed.
The unnamed woman, detailed as a case study in the journal BMJ Case Reports, had been taking drugs that weakened her immune system for several years after receiving a double lung transplant in 2009.
Following getting a tattoo on her left thigh, the woman began to experience severe pain in her hip, knee and thigh, which persisted for one year. It then took a further two years for her symptoms to disappear altogether.
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