My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (Full Version)

All Forums >> [Community Discussions] >> Health and Safety



Message

Toppingfrmbottom -> My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/14/2010 6:44:00 PM)

And by the way no, I don't wear earrings or play with them or streach them or anything. They're basically left over from a time when I was 2 and my biological mother or someone thought it'd be sooooooooooooooooo cute to have their toddlers ears pierced. I never wear earrings any more haven't since I was  in grade school.

why would that be ya suppose? And then of course every now and then if you manipulate the piercing itself, it stinks, but I attribute that to be more of a skin oil thing.



RumpusParable -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/14/2010 8:26:47 PM)

Yep, the smell is from dead skin and oils; just as you thought.

The pain is because many (most?) people's piercings are always susceptible to changes in their bodies over the years. Even with jewelry out it is an alteration to the normal skin... even healed it can flare up, like any past injury (and if it was done that long ago -and unfortunately still often today- it was likely done by a crude method like gun or sewing needle or such. All such methods cause some degree of tearing and (even if not visible) scarring which later changes (hormones, other injuries or illness, weather/climate, you name it) can annoy.



Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/14/2010 8:54:03 PM)

Could be,  nobody but the ones who did it know how it was done. I do know when I lived in the group home, the popular way to pierce your nose, when there was 4 gitrls who wanted to do it, they took a needle and a potato, and shoved the needle through the nose skin on the side. Very, very crude and poorly done.


quote:

ORIGINAL: RumpusParable

Yep, the smell is from dead skin and oils; just as you thought.

The pain is because many (most?) people's piercings are always susceptible to changes in their bodies over the years. Even with jewelry out it is an alteration to the normal skin... even healed it can flare up, like any past injury (and if it was done that long ago -and unfortunately still often today- it was likely done by a crude method like gun or sewing needle or such. All such methods cause some degree of tearing and (even if not visible) scarring which later changes (hormones, other injuries or illness, weather/climate, you name it) can annoy.



camille65 -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/14/2010 9:31:50 PM)

I got my ears pierced in 1979, took very good care of them as directed but they never healed. They still haven't healed and I've not worn any earrings (even clip ons) in decades. At least 7 times a year they get hot and swollen, very painful to the touch. I wish I'd never gotten them pierced.



Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/15/2010 12:17:27 PM)

camille, yeah I wish my ears had never been pierced either, specially since between the time they did them and a young adult in 4th grade, they got streached so big  some how, probably accidental snagging, that you could put a pencil through my lobe with no problem, and they have not really closed up very much over the many years of not using them. In fact I am about this close ... to haveing the hole rip out the bottom of my lobe, and not having a hole, but a slash in my lobe.


Earrings always caused my ears to hurt anyway, and I'd get this icky green crusty gunk on the backs of the piece that went through the hole. I really do think there aught to be some kind of rule against public piercers pierving little kids ears. It's beyond stupid, a  little child  and I've seen them on infants, as well as 2 year olds does not need ear piercings.



RumpusParable -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/16/2010 7:54:42 AM)

I agree and won't do it if the child is unable to say they want it. Some may find this odd, but I had mine done at age 4 after giving consent... I knew I wanted them and understood the permanence. Unfortunately, they were done with a gun as no one then and there knew better. :( Personally, I can't wear inferior metals at all anywhere on my skin as I am highly sensitive and acidic; my body reacts badly and/or eats the jewelry away. This is even moreso with my stretched lobes now as they've gotten bigger; I can no longer wear plastic plugs or even 316LVM stainless steel for long anymore and stick to glass, wood and silicone for daily wear.

As a piercer, if the child is with their parent/guardian and BOTH state they want the piercing -done correctly, not with a gun- then I will do it. This has happened ONCE so far in my piercing history... I can't tell you how many mothers have brought in children under the age of one that 1) I have turned down due to consent discomfort, 2) have changed their mind because I won't use a gun on them, and/or 3) the child was so young it was not just a consent issue but also a health issue (under the age of 8 weeks, a few under 2 weeks and one literally days old I kid you not).

I can't speak about how I feel on this trend without using very harsh words so I'll just leave it at that indication...



Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/16/2010 3:34:13 PM)

If not with a piercing gun, then how are you supposed to do it?


My niece has her ears pierced now, but she's almost a teenager, and her mom made the rule she couldn't wear large dangly earrings, it had to be studs and small hoops only, which is a good descion for her, cause come on now, a young girl does not need these huge tennis ball sized hoops lol.
quote:

ORIGINAL: RumpusParable

I agree and won't do it if the child is unable to say they want it. Some may find this odd, but I had mine done at age 4 after giving consent... I knew I wanted them and understood the permanence. Unfortunately, they were done with a gun as no one then and there knew better. :(



stef -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/16/2010 3:46:45 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Toppingfrmbottom

If not with a piercing gun, then how are you supposed to do it?

With a piercing needle. 

~stef



MissAsylum -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/16/2010 3:49:49 PM)

i have 2 holes in both my ears- my oldest piercings( i was like 2 or 3 years old) are stretched to a 2g size hole and next to them are just regular piercings, which i got done early this year.

i've never had problems with my original piercings, but until the second one healed around the middle of this year- i swear on everything i wanted to shoot myself for getting them pierced.

i went to the store Claire's to get them done and they used a piercing gun. Didn't hurt at all, but the healing was hell.

there are so many things that can go wrong with a gun. parts could still be dirty, old cleaning solution....the list goes on. also, the earring that was used was really only a little bit larger than the hole, so the earring ended up retreating into the hole and my boyfriend had to yank them out backwards with a pair of surgical pliers he uses for school. [:(]

the best thing to do(which my dumb ass should have done in the first place since i have other piercings) is to go to a profession piercer who is certified to do things like that. if you go see one, i'm sure they could offer some advice as to why your ears are so tender after so long.



Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: My ear piercing is well over 10 years old but it sometimes hurts to touch. (10/16/2010 4:39:33 PM)

That's a good idea Miss A Perhaps they could.


quote:

ORIGINAL: MissAsylum



the best thing to do(which my dumb ass should have done in the first place since i have other piercings) is to go to a profession piercer who is certified to do things like that. if you go see one, i'm sure they could offer some advice as to why your ears are so tender after so long.




Page: [1]

Valid CSS!




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy
0.03125