Sarcoidosis, an autoimmune disease that can affect the skin and other organs, sometimes first appears with bumps at the site of a tattoo, she says. Infections are more common within the first couple of days or weeks of getting a tattoo, Dr.

Your skin also has a thin layer of scarring on every inch of tattooed area, and the lines are typically worse because the action is more aggressive. Because of this changes in barometric pressure, humidity and temperature as well as other things can change how it aligns in your skin sometimes causing it to feel raised.

Basically treat this sickness as if it is a regular flu. Your symptoms should pass in a day or two as your body's immune system calms down and gets to the proper work of healing the actual tattoo on your skin.