Sorry that happened. Glad you got it taken care of and the pain is gone. This is a good reminder to pay attention and keep cleaning and checking in with all our piercings. Even after they are healed.
Dude even my "closed" piercings get temperamental xD I haven't worn a lip ring in 10 years and the the holes from them at least once a year are all like "Hey you remember that time you shoved a needle in here? WELL I DO!!👾👾"
I just took out my antitragus piercing after 5 months 😭 when I got it, I wasn't a huge fan of the placement, but it was healing so beautifully over the next few months that I just decided to stick with it. Then suddenly it swelled up with a painful lump under the skin, and I just pulled it out. I miss it but hopefully I can repierce it in a few months in a better position!
I had a tragus that I didn’t know was rejecting cus it was hurting for half a year after the initial 3 months. I have it repierced again, but keeping an eye out. Oh, btw, I have to agree with you that the conch’s healing process is so much easier than any of mine. Even my lobe ones aren’t healed after a year. 😅
I'm sorry your helix was a pita. Though catching up on missed videos has been timely. My rook which has been healed for 4 years suddenly started hurting almost a week ago, I've already started my aftercare again, it's feeling much better today, and soon I'll be visiting my piercer to change the jewellery.
So sorry that happened.. must have been super scary. Im sure it feels MUCH better now that it’s out. I’ve always had issues healing piercings, especially with my rook and it’s well over a year old. I can only use titanium but even then piercings in general can just be super fickle to deal with in comparison to tattoos. 😩 I initially had 4-5 piercings in my right ear over a year ago and to this day, all that is left is my main lobe piercing. Idk if they just choose to reject over time (even with cleaning the normal amount) but at a certain point you just get annoyed with paying to re-pierce scar tissue. I ended up getting a cute floral tattoo in my right ear and called it a day to help balance out my left ear that has been able to keep piercings. 🤷🏻♀️
Thought I was headed to the ER a couple months back when I caught the flat back in something and ripped the ball through the cartilage, but not through the back. Luckily I was able to pull it the rest of the way out after a struggle. Put in a glass plug to keep it open to not seal infection in, while allowing for the expected extreme swelling.
omg i have a medusa piercing and one time the back was stuck in my lip and i could not get it out. i tried to cut the skin like with my tweezers, which did not work, and i had to eventually go to my piercer and she removed it for me. it was definitely scary but i’m so grateful for her and i still have the piercing and check it very often now lol
I just got my daith a couple months ago and its been a pain in the ass to heal. I soak it twice daily and never touch it but it gets crusty and gross. I am so annoyed but I love it and going to keep nursing it. It didn't hurt getting it done but the healing process sucks.
My daith flared up at month 9 and swelled and ended up having the ring rub a perfect circle cut into it and infect the hole. definitely not fun. was one of my favorites. It leaked for about 24 hours after too
OMG! i am going through this right now…only a few differences in scenario: mine is leas than a month old and it was fine until last night i noticed my ear swelled up and was encasing the jewelry so i went to remove the jewelry and i got the back off but the jewelry piece was swallowed up by the swelling and vanished so i go to the er and the doctor couldn’t find the jewelry because of the swelling so instead of cutting open my ear he sent me home to wait for the swelling to go down so right now im treating the swelling and hopefully the piercing will break to the surface where it can be seen and removed…i really liked that piercing but this is my second go at that one so at this point i just dont think the forward helix is one that i can have. i guess everything aint for everybody.
Well, I didn't have my conch for a long time. After six weeks I went back to my piercer to get the shorter bar because the initial swelling was gone. They couldn't get the shorter bar in and my initial bar neither. They said I could let it close up and get it for free redone once it was healed. Or... repierce it now. So my dumb ass chose the second option because I loved my conch so much. I couldn't turn my head for days without feeling the swelling. 6 months after that repierce situation it still hurt. So I decided to take it out. That was end Januari / beginning of Februari this year. This summer I got it repierced by a different piercer who was actually touching my ear for 5 minutes or so, to find the right spot. (First time I got it done they did not even check anything, they marked a spot, asked if I liked the placement and shoved the needle through) This time the switch to a shorter bar was successful and it's still fine😊 I know I was being dumb that first time, but I also think the piercer was wrong to even offer me that option.
Yikes!! My forward helixes took a solid two years to heal. I wonder if the headphones just over time put continued pressure on the piercing from behind? Gosh what a nightmare tho!!! Ouch!!!!!
Hi I have done my fw helix one month ago and i love it soooo much . I hope it will go well 🙏 I had à problem with my daith done 10months ago, thought it was fine but one day it starts to bleed and red😮 i went to a piercer and i starts to migrate 🥲 i had to take it out 🥲 soo sad
I got a forward helix and a helix at the same time in February (2022) and the forward helix is so easy. I haven’t had any problems with it. It feels healed. So that’s a scary warning from your vid. But my helix isn’t healed. My other helix was easy but this one bleeds like once a month and forms a scab and I’m trying to just clean it but it’s got build up or scabbing so close to the jewelry and inside the piercing. My other thought from this story- lidocaine is so weird. I don’t It turns off the pain but it doesn’t go numb like dental numbing. I can still feel what is happening. When I had stitches, I could feel the needle and the thread pulling my skin together. Then again I had to get something cut and I could feel the scalpel and my skin being separated still with lidocaine
My had a flat piercing which I had for 5 weeks, the day after I downsized it - so swollen that the whole jewellery was inside my ear also had to go to the ER. But the worst is coming - the doctors can’t take it out (it was a thread less one so maybe it was less common) and one even touched my ear with her bare hands! Ended up having to do it myself in the ER bathroom 🥲 that’s my horror story
funny enough my second lobe played up after a year, supposedly the easiest to heal currently working on fixing it it initally had a huge bump below it but is slowly going down now
also after a year i had my industrial reject i didnt realise untill it was too late so it physically pushed out my ear, hoping that grows back (thankfully got to keep the top piercing)
Something kinda similar happened to me back in 2005, but this wasn't my fault at all ... I had a really nice helix in my right ear. One day, I remember it was a Saturday morning, I went to the salon and this idiot that was doing my hair just pulled my piercing with the brush (I had told him to be careful with that area, since it wasn't new, but wasn't fully healed either... and he was all like "OK yeah, sure, don't worry")... Anyway, he wasn't careful at all. So the jewelry was all in my cartilage and I couldn't take it off. It hurt so badly. I had to go to the ER because it was also bleeding like heck. And well I went through the exact same thing as you. So I feel you, the pain is awful and the sensation sucks too. Btw, I, of course, didn't pay to the salon because of what happened lol. I hope that jerk got fired 🤣 😈. Glad you decided to go to the ER and that you're doing well :)
I got my conch pierced June of 2021 and I feel like it’s still not healed. I try to clean it with a wet paper towel after every shower so it doesn’t get super irritated but every morning it has crusties and sleeping on it makes it sore. I’ve been dealing with feeling nausea the past few weeks and I wonder if it has anything to do with the health of my unhealed conch. Wondering what I should do and honestly scared to just take it out and let it heal.
I got my conch pierced in July 2020; and only just in the past two months have i noticed it is completely healed. It’s a thick area of cartilage and can take a while to heal. If you are feeling nauseated etc and it’s truly uncomfortable or unbearable please get it checked out! The best tips i have for healing are to avoid sleeping on it/bumping it; sizing the bar down as soon as you are able to; cleaning it at least twice a day with either gentle saline spray or gentle cleanser like Cetaphil. Do not change it to a hoop before its healed! Good luck
@@sophielalonde1873 thank you for the tips! I appreciate your input ☺️ I did change it to a hoop a few months before my 1 year anniversary - in hindsight I should’ve waited longer. I’ll definitely begin washing it with Saline Spray as my piercer also suggested! Thank you 💕
Dude, one of my second lobes of all piercings is weeping and bumpy still and it's been... 5 years? 6? since I got it. Five healed cartilage piercings with zero drama but this one lobe is just too much. -_-
Wow that is scary. Was the jewellery too long for your forward helix? Sometimes that can cause movement and irritation. So far, the worst piercing experience of all was my daith. It took two years and a half and multiple doctors appointments for local steroid shots to finally get rid of the bumps.
I can’t imagine how painful that was! RIP to the forward helix. I had an issue with a nipple piercing that got so infected it caused sepsis. 😅 I’d had that piercing for 3 years with no problems, then out of the blue it got really angry. Removing that piercing was the worst pain I’ve ever felt.
This sounds like a nightmare! Luckily I don’t have that bad of a horror story, just a regular helix piercing that refuses to be “healed.” I’ve it had it for 4 years and it still flares up and decides to bleed every once in while 🥲 But silver lining, this one has made me keep up with my cleaning regimen for the rest of my piercings!
My helix piercing also took multiple years to heal, but luckily it's been 15 years now and I don't have any issues anymore! I can tug on it with no issue. Switching to titanium jewelery helped me a lot!
My lobe piercing went into my ear when I was in 3rd grade. The doc had to pull it through the back to get it out. Hurt like a bitch but honestly, I learned a huge lesson as an 8 year old that day.
When I was in middle school, 6th or 7th grade can't remember which, I got my lobes pierced for the first time (at Claire's, of course 🙄). Let them heal up for probably a wildly inappropriate short amount of time, then decided I wanted to change out the black jewel studs they were pierced with to some little hoops I had gotten. Get one of them out just fine, struggle and struggle and struggle like hell to get the back off the 2nd one -- and what does this dumb earring do but get sucked straight into my earlobe when I finally do pop the back off. Oh my GOD. I am pretty sure that was the day I had my very first panic attack LOL. Had to go to the ER when my mom got home from work to have them shove it back through my ear. I promptly took them both out after that and didn't try piercings again for YEARS 😂
This is why lobes for me are the hardest to heal as for some reason I get blood bumps on my lobes easy and the skin likes to grow over. Lobes are harder then my daith, tragus, belly button, and nose were 😂
Lobes for me too! They just constantly get bumps and are sore, then all the sudden one day they’ll be fully healed, it’s wild. Make sure you’re keeping them dry. I’ve got a 3rd and upper lobe currently going on a year and a half+ and are still throwing tantrums! 😢
@@chelseawoodall3361 yes! That’s the same for me, I have my 3rds on one ear and only my 2nds on the other and I’m dreading getting my 3rd done on that side 😂😂
do u get them done with needles or with piercing guns? (just for the record i only have 1 lobe piercing each and don’t remember much of the healing process lmao)
I had a bad daith experience. Originally it was done in my left ear, unfortunately it was too shallow and I was told it would reject. It kept bleeding over the first 24 hours so I went to the emergency room and had to have a shot inside my ear to stop the bleeding (ironically hurt more than the piercing itself). It worked but the scab plugged my ear so I went to urgent care the next day to have it blasted out. Finally, I found a more reputable piercer and got it done properly in the right ear. My only suggestion: don’t go somewhere because there’s a sale, do some research! 🥲 The only saving grace is there’s no visible scar because of its placement.
Sorry that happened. Glad you got it taken care of and the pain is gone. This is a good reminder to pay attention and keep cleaning and checking in with all our piercings. Even after they are healed.
“Temperamental” is the perfect word to describe piercings that give us trouble lol
Dude even my "closed" piercings get temperamental xD I haven't worn a lip ring in 10 years and the the holes from them at least once a year are all like "Hey you remember that time you shoved a needle in here? WELL I DO!!👾👾"
@@ichimarutetsu hilarious lol
I just took out my antitragus piercing after 5 months 😭 when I got it, I wasn't a huge fan of the placement, but it was healing so beautifully over the next few months that I just decided to stick with it. Then suddenly it swelled up with a painful lump under the skin, and I just pulled it out. I miss it but hopefully I can repierce it in a few months in a better position!
I had a tragus that I didn’t know was rejecting cus it was hurting for half a year after the initial 3 months. I have it repierced again, but keeping an eye out.
Oh, btw, I have to agree with you that the conch’s healing process is so much easier than any of mine. Even my lobe ones aren’t healed after a year. 😅
That’s why I take pictures so I can see 🙈 I just got mine done a couple days ago.
I'm sorry your helix was a pita. Though catching up on missed videos has been timely. My rook which has been healed for 4 years suddenly started hurting almost a week ago, I've already started my aftercare again, it's feeling much better today, and soon I'll be visiting my piercer to change the jewellery.
So sorry that happened.. must have been super scary. Im sure it feels MUCH better now that it’s out. I’ve always had issues healing piercings, especially with my rook and it’s well over a year old. I can only use titanium but even then piercings in general can just be super fickle to deal with in comparison to tattoos. 😩 I initially had 4-5 piercings in my right ear over a year ago and to this day, all that is left is my main lobe piercing. Idk if they just choose to reject over time (even with cleaning the normal amount) but at a certain point you just get annoyed with paying to re-pierce scar tissue. I ended up getting a cute floral tattoo in my right ear and called it a day to help balance out my left ear that has been able to keep piercings. 🤷🏻♀️
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Ur medusa piercing is so freaking cute!!!!
Thought I was headed to the ER a couple months back when I caught the flat back in something and ripped the ball through the cartilage, but not through the back. Luckily I was able to pull it the rest of the way out after a struggle. Put in a glass plug to keep it open to not seal infection in, while allowing for the expected extreme swelling.
omg i have a medusa piercing and one time the back was stuck in my lip and i could not get it out. i tried to cut the skin like with my tweezers, which did not work, and i had to eventually go to my piercer and she removed it for me. it was definitely scary but i’m so grateful for her and i still have the piercing and check it very often now lol
I just got my daith a couple months ago and its been a pain in the ass to heal. I soak it twice daily and never touch it but it gets crusty and gross. I am so annoyed but I love it and going to keep nursing it. It didn't hurt getting it done but the healing process sucks.
My daith flared up at month 9 and swelled and ended up having the ring rub a perfect circle cut into it and infect the hole. definitely not fun. was one of my favorites. It leaked for about 24 hours after too
OMG! i am going through this right now…only a few differences in scenario: mine is leas than a month old and it was fine until last night i noticed my ear swelled up and was encasing the jewelry so i went to remove the jewelry and i got the back off but the jewelry piece was swallowed up by the swelling and vanished so i go to the er and the doctor couldn’t find the jewelry because of the swelling so instead of cutting open my ear he sent me home to wait for the swelling to go down so right now im treating the swelling and hopefully the piercing will break to the surface where it can be seen and removed…i really liked that piercing but this is my second go at that one so at this point i just dont think the forward helix is one that i can have. i guess everything aint for everybody.
Well, I didn't have my conch for a long time. After six weeks I went back to my piercer to get the shorter bar because the initial swelling was gone. They couldn't get the shorter bar in and my initial bar neither. They said I could let it close up and get it for free redone once it was healed. Or... repierce it now. So my dumb ass chose the second option because I loved my conch so much. I couldn't turn my head for days without feeling the swelling. 6 months after that repierce situation it still hurt. So I decided to take it out. That was end Januari / beginning of Februari this year. This summer I got it repierced by a different piercer who was actually touching my ear for 5 minutes or so, to find the right spot. (First time I got it done they did not even check anything, they marked a spot, asked if I liked the placement and shoved the needle through) This time the switch to a shorter bar was successful and it's still fine😊 I know I was being dumb that first time, but I also think the piercer was wrong to even offer me that option.
Yikes!! My forward helixes took a solid two years to heal. I wonder if the headphones just over time put continued pressure on the piercing from behind? Gosh what a nightmare tho!!! Ouch!!!!!
Hi I have done my fw helix one month ago and i love it soooo much . I hope it will go well 🙏 I had à problem with my daith done 10months ago, thought it was fine but one day it starts to bleed and red😮 i went to a piercer and i starts to migrate 🥲 i had to take it out 🥲 soo sad
My forward helix, never healed, it was gross and oozy, bled on and off for over a year, then I gave up and removed it!
I got a forward helix and a helix at the same time in February (2022) and the forward helix is so easy. I haven’t had any problems with it. It feels healed. So that’s a scary warning from your vid. But my helix isn’t healed. My other helix was easy but this one bleeds like once a month and forms a scab and I’m trying to just clean it but it’s got build up or scabbing so close to the jewelry and inside the piercing.
My other thought from this story- lidocaine is so weird. I don’t It turns off the pain but it doesn’t go numb like dental numbing. I can still feel what is happening. When I had stitches, I could feel the needle and the thread pulling my skin together. Then again I had to get something cut and I could feel the scalpel and my skin being separated still with lidocaine
My had a flat piercing which I had for 5 weeks, the day after I downsized it - so swollen that the whole jewellery was inside my ear also had to go to the ER. But the worst is coming - the doctors can’t take it out (it was a thread less one so maybe it was less common) and one even touched my ear with her bare hands! Ended up having to do it myself in the ER bathroom 🥲 that’s my horror story
I had a butterfly earring turn sideways and inbed in my ear and it was painful to get out
funny enough my second lobe played up after a year, supposedly the easiest to heal currently working on fixing it it initally had a huge bump below it but is slowly going down now
also after a year i had my industrial reject i didnt realise untill it was too late so it physically pushed out my ear, hoping that grows back (thankfully got to keep the top piercing)
Something kinda similar happened to me back in 2005, but this wasn't my fault at all ... I had a really nice helix in my right ear. One day, I remember it was a Saturday morning, I went to the salon and this idiot that was doing my hair just pulled my piercing with the brush (I had told him to be careful with that area, since it wasn't new, but wasn't fully healed either... and he was all like "OK yeah, sure, don't worry")... Anyway, he wasn't careful at all.
So the jewelry was all in my cartilage and I couldn't take it off. It hurt so badly.
I had to go to the ER because it was also bleeding like heck.
And well I went through the exact same thing as you. So I feel you, the pain is awful and the sensation sucks too.
Btw, I, of course, didn't pay to the salon because of what happened lol. I hope that jerk got fired 🤣 😈.
Glad you decided to go to the ER and that you're doing well :)
How does one get rid of discoloration from a piercing because of cheap jewelry, my conch
I got my conch pierced June of 2021 and I feel like it’s still not healed. I try to clean it with a wet paper towel after every shower so it doesn’t get super irritated but every morning it has crusties and sleeping on it makes it sore. I’ve been dealing with feeling nausea the past few weeks and I wonder if it has anything to do with the health of my unhealed conch. Wondering what I should do and honestly scared to just take it out and let it heal.
Please please pleas try not to sleep on it. It will cause so much unnessescary problems.. :(
I got my conch pierced in July 2020; and only just in the past two months have i noticed it is completely healed. It’s a thick area of cartilage and can take a while to heal. If you are feeling nauseated etc and it’s truly uncomfortable or unbearable please get it checked out!
The best tips i have for healing are to avoid sleeping on it/bumping it; sizing the bar down as soon as you are able to; cleaning it at least twice a day with either gentle saline spray or gentle cleanser like Cetaphil. Do not change it to a hoop before its healed! Good luck
@@sophielalonde1873 thank you for the tips! I appreciate your input ☺️ I did change it to a hoop a few months before my 1 year anniversary - in hindsight I should’ve waited longer. I’ll definitely begin washing it with Saline Spray as my piercer also suggested! Thank you 💕
Dude, one of my second lobes of all piercings is weeping and bumpy still and it's been... 5 years? 6? since I got it. Five healed cartilage piercings with zero drama but this one lobe is just too much. -_-
Wow that is scary. Was the jewellery too long for your forward helix? Sometimes that can cause movement and irritation.
So far, the worst piercing experience of all was my daith. It took two years and a half and multiple doctors appointments for local steroid shots to finally get rid of the bumps.
I can’t imagine how painful that was! RIP to the forward helix. I had an issue with a nipple piercing that got so infected it caused sepsis. 😅 I’d had that piercing for 3 years with no problems, then out of the blue it got really angry. Removing that piercing was the worst pain I’ve ever felt.
This sounds like a nightmare! Luckily I don’t have that bad of a horror story, just a regular helix piercing that refuses to be “healed.” I’ve it had it for 4 years and it still flares up and decides to bleed every once in while 🥲 But silver lining, this one has made me keep up with my cleaning regimen for the rest of my piercings!
My helix piercing also took multiple years to heal, but luckily it's been 15 years now and I don't have any issues anymore! I can tug on it with no issue. Switching to titanium jewelery helped me a lot!
My lobe piercing went into my ear when I was in 3rd grade. The doc had to pull it through the back to get it out. Hurt like a bitch but honestly, I learned a huge lesson as an 8 year old that day.
Aye thanks for showing me how to put my gauges in lol. and that suxx
Sounds like cartilage is more work than other piercings. Scary. 😮
Hope it feels better
My body doesn’t like piercings around my mouth, medusa 😢
When I was in middle school, 6th or 7th grade can't remember which, I got my lobes pierced for the first time (at Claire's, of course 🙄). Let them heal up for probably a wildly inappropriate short amount of time, then decided I wanted to change out the black jewel studs they were pierced with to some little hoops I had gotten. Get one of them out just fine, struggle and struggle and struggle like hell to get the back off the 2nd one -- and what does this dumb earring do but get sucked straight into my earlobe when I finally do pop the back off. Oh my GOD. I am pretty sure that was the day I had my very first panic attack LOL. Had to go to the ER when my mom got home from work to have them shove it back through my ear. I promptly took them both out after that and didn't try piercings again for YEARS 😂
This is why lobes for me are the hardest to heal as for some reason I get blood bumps on my lobes easy and the skin likes to grow over. Lobes are harder then my daith, tragus, belly button, and nose were 😂
Lobes for me too! They just constantly get bumps and are sore, then all the sudden one day they’ll be fully healed, it’s wild. Make sure you’re keeping them dry. I’ve got a 3rd and upper lobe currently going on a year and a half+ and are still throwing tantrums! 😢
@@chelseawoodall3361 yes! That’s the same for me, I have my 3rds on one ear and only my 2nds on the other and I’m dreading getting my 3rd done on that side 😂😂
do u get them done with needles or with piercing guns? (just for the record i only have 1 lobe piercing each and don’t remember much of the healing process lmao)
@@nikjay6139 had both didn’t make a difference
@@lissyclay ohh okay, was just wondering bc ik guns cause a lot of problems. ik my left ear got infected like 3 times
I had a bad daith experience.
Originally it was done in my left ear, unfortunately it was too shallow and I was told it would reject.
It kept bleeding over the first 24 hours so I went to the emergency room and had to have a shot inside my ear to stop the bleeding (ironically hurt more than the piercing itself).
It worked but the scab plugged my ear so I went to urgent care the next day to have it blasted out.
Finally, I found a more reputable piercer and got it done properly in the right ear.
My only suggestion: don’t go somewhere because there’s a sale, do some research!
🥲
The only saving grace is there’s no visible scar because of its placement.