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Problems with ear cartlidge piercing - need advice!

  • 02-03-2005 09:55PM
    #1
    freetoair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭


    Hi, I'm new to this forum and don't have any unusual piercings yet!! I stupidly had my ear cartlidges pierced with a piercing gun by someone who wouldn't have been a professional piercer. That was 8 weeks ago! Now here's my problem. The site around the piercing is swollen and I've had to remove the backs of the earrings and use ones with a longer stem. I don't want to let the piercings close. I haven't been to the doctor as it isn't painful.
    Does anyone know what type of earrings I should wear until it heals as piercing gun studs are not ideal type studs? Any help appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    Blub2k4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭Blub2k4


    I'd advise that you get yourself along to a proper piercing studio and let them salvage what they can or remove them. Snakebite would be a good place to start.


  • #3
    sickle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭sickle


    i agree with blub2k4.
    your cartilage could be shattered which takes a very long time to heal. hell it happened to me years ago and my ear is still bent!


  • #4
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    yeah peircings with guns never real ....... i had my ear done when i was about 4 or 5...... still feel it there to this day even though i stopped wearing it years and years ago.


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