I am going to the doctor today as I think my boxer tattoo is infected. I have numerous tattoos and am pretty meticulous about caring for them, but this is my first experience with something like this. It's isolated to the area near the "ditch" of my arm. It started out getting all puff, and tender, then started to form like a crevice with a milky-colored liquid at times. Then over the weekend, the outside of my forearm broke out in small painful pimples with little white-heads.

It's been a week and I went in to my regular tattoo artist for a touch up on another piece and he said he couldn't work on me as having an infection could cause serious problems (Good to know). Anyway, I was curious if anyone here has had an infection and what the outcome was. Did the tattoo heal poorly? Was it salvageable?

Here's a pic (note: This is pretty gross!)