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Nape piercing - healing question

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  • 14-03-2014 10:31pm
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    WildRosie
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    I am considering getting a nape piercing, but want to be as informed as possible in advance. I have quite a physical job, with a lot of bending and lifting (nurse) and wonder if this would have an impact on healing?

    Also, I had been considering clavicle piercings (would have been my preference), but I sleep on my front and am quite well endowed in the bust area which results in some migration of tissue :p and think this would negatively impact on healing. Would I be correct in this thinking?

    I know that nape piercings require a good deal of care (which I'd have no problem with), but would healing be affected by a lot of bending and lifting? Thanks!


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    raze_them_all_
    Registered Users Posts: 6,744 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    ape is easier than clavicle to heal


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    RhoDoDenDron
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭RhoDoDenDron


    I have three and I don't think bending would affect at all.

    Having said that, I also think that surface piercings in this country are performed particularly poorly by even the best piercers.


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    ynwa14
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭ynwa14


    Thought I'd pop this question in here rather than start a new thread

    Potentially dumb, but would sleeping on your back negatively impact the healing of a nape piercing? I kinda have images of something going horribly wrong in my sleep :P


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    Sinister Kid
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    ynwa14 wrote: »
    Thought I'd pop this question in here rather than start a new thread

    Potentially dumb, but would sleeping on your back negatively impact the healing of a nape piercing? I kinda have images of something going horribly wrong in my sleep :P

    I had no problems with mine :)


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    Inmyownworld
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭Inmyownworld


    The healing process on my nape was perfect, when I got it done I was waitressing and bending, lifting etc didn't seem to affect it at all.

    Every so often I do find it goes a bit off off for a little bit, can get a little tender and a little crusty. But that lasts for a day or so and is fine again, probably mostly when I unconsciously mess with it (which I think looks horrible when I see someone else doing it!).

    Try avoid that and it should be fine!


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    atsural
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭atsural


    Bending wasn't an issue for me! Just getting my hair caught as it is quite long! I'm a student midwife and one of the midwives on the ward noticed it and told me to take it out so just to warn you if you're in a hospital setting to be careful! That being said I have my nose pierced and they haven't noticed :)


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