Did earrings help?

[Lori Dee]

My sister's doctor used a hole punch of sorts to push the stud through!  Ouch.  The wound had to heal over then piercing replaced in six months.

Ouch! I prefer the Milwaukee power drill method. 

[NancyDrew1930]

Yeah I'll wait for a month or two before getting it repunched.  However my other ear I'm going to switch out the stud for a different one for Christmas.

[ChrissyRyan]

Ouch! I prefer the Milwaukee power drill method. 

I would skip that method for ear piercing.

[big kim]

My Grandmother  on Dad's  side pierced  ears since  she was a teenager. She used a cork, ice cube, darning needle and book!  Having seen her do it I went to a shop for mine.  

[ChrissyRyan]

My Grandmother  on Dad's  side pierced  ears since  she was a teenager. She used a cork, ice cube, darning needle and book!  Having seen her do it I went to a shop for mine. 

I would skip this home grown solution also.

[NancyDrew1930]

So I got my ear repierced two weeks ago.  Surprisingly, while it was more painful to punch through the scar tissue, I'm finding the scar tissue seems to be acting as a defence barrier and is working to counteract any pain I might be having.  My ear hasn't been swelling like it was two months ago. 

This morning I kind of had a scare because my CPAP mask strap had caused my stud to push through a little bit, so I woke up with some pain, however I was able to push my stud back through the hole in the back (and it's hard to explain since I both felt and not-really-heard-but-did-hear the "pop" as it went back through the hole.  But the pain (which did get worse as I was popping it back in) disappeared within two minutes of popping it back in.

[NancyDrew1930]

So I now have matching earrings in my ears.  I had another scare this morning because my stud had pushed through and had started to get embedded.  So about 5 minutes ago I took out my stud for a large diamond shaped cubic zirconia earring that I put in and had a bullet earring back.  Between slipping through the other day and me pushing it back through this morning plus the doctor back in December "popping" the other stud through, I think my hole was too big for stud and i would have woken up tomorrow with the stud embedded again, whereas the bullet back and zirconia both cover like 50% more of my ear (plus they might act like a compression earring to help take down the swelling) so I don't think I'll have worry about my earring being absorbed overnight, or trying to pop it out in the morning.  Although I might've irritated my ear a little bit getting the zirconia in, since I did feel my earring's post poking the side as I was trying to find the back hole, which did not close up in the minute it took me to put the old one down, put hydrogen peroxide on my ear and put the new one in.

But that's it for me with flat backs.  I'll just deal with silicon or bullet backs, plus those starter flat backs were tiny and I had a hard time gripping both to pull.  So I'll be using bigger ear studs and earrings.  In the summer I might try some dangly ones.

[Lori Dee]

I had a similar issue with small round studs. They never pushed through but the weight of my fat head lying on them while sleeping made my ear sore. Now they don't bother me, but if I forget to take out my cube-shaped crystal studs, they will hurt in the morning due to the square angles poking the ear lobe. Sometimes, if the stem is too long, like on my starter studs, they poked my neck too. I took some wire cutters and shortened them, then filed the ends smooth.

Glad yours are healing up so you can enjoy shopping for more styles.

[NancyDrew1930]

I had a similar issue with small round studs. They never pushed through but the weight of my fat head lying on them while sleeping made my ear sore. Now they don't bother me, but if I forget to take out my cube-shaped crystal studs, they will hurt in the morning due to the square angles poking the ear lobe. Sometimes, if the stem is too long, like on my starter studs, they poked my neck too. I took some wire cutters and shortened them, then filed the ends smooth.

Glad yours are healing up so you can enjoy shopping for more styles.

The other day one of the women at work noticed that I had pierced my ears, and when I told her that I just got my right ear repierced and slept with the zirconia in my left, she was surprised that the back didn't bother me.  I find that where my back is, there's a space between two bones,so I guess it rests there and my skin has some flexibility there.

[ChrissyRyan]

Earrings can be a nice way to complete your appearance.

[NancyDrew1930]

Earrings can be a nice way to complete your appearance.

I have some (I hope) nice heart shaped earrings coming in the mail later this week that I saw online.  I won't be able to see how good they are until they're here, but they looked nice online.  I also ordered a bunch of extra bullet backs, just so that I have spares and one set I've picked up has the butterfly back and even before putting them on I found the back just felt tiny in my fingers and I didn't think that I'd be able to grip them behind my ear to get them on.  So I'm going to replace the butterfly back.

[NancyDrew1930]

Yesterday I noticed that my bullet backs did act like compression earrings, since I didn't even feel it pop, but I went into the bathroom at one point and there was a short line of blood down the side of my face from behind my ear, and my ear wasn't as swollen as it was yesterday morning (and the swelling has gone down more this morning).  So I think my ear is going to be alright with the earring.

[NancyDrew1930]

I have some (I hope) nice heart shaped earrings coming in the mail later this week that I saw online.  I won't be able to see how good they are until they're here, but they looked nice online.  I also ordered a bunch of extra bullet backs, just so that I have spares and one set I've picked up has the butterfly back and even before putting them on I found the back just felt tiny in my fingers and I didn't think that I'd be able to grip them behind my ear to get them on.  So I'm going to replace the butterfly back.

So I got the earrings a few weeks ago.  When I got them they looked a lot smaller than I thought, however I've put them in and the hearts look really nice and seem to be about medium size. 

Does anyone else find that for maybe a half hour after changing your earrings that your ears are red from the handling that you have to do
, or squeezing the back onto the post?  I try to change them after my shower when it's hot, but I find that for about 30 minutes afterwards my earlobes will be red.  Or since I've only had them pierced for a short time, I'm maybe irritating them.

[D'Amalie]

The guidelines are to leave the piercing posts in for 6 weeks.  Longer if you can.  Changing them out too soon is asking for trouble.  You run the risk of delaying the healing.  Bacitracin morning and night.  Spin a few times a day.  Leave them in.  Only use GOLD, white, yellow or rose.

Plated or base metal is a no no.  Have some patience girl!  Depending on "what sport I'm pursuing" I'll change earrings out every week.  That said, I've had mine for four years in both, and before that 25 or more left only.
I never had troubles, redness or other discomfort.  On the other hand my 21 year old daughter has had all sorts of problems with the Helix.  It will generally take 6 - 9 months to heal, but she didn't have the patience  and started changing it out after 6 weeks.

YMMV

[ChrissyRyan]

Earrings are nice, they can go nicely with necklaces!

Chrissy

[NancyDrew1930]

The guidelines are to leave the piercing posts in for 6 weeks.  Longer if you can.  Changing them out too soon is asking for trouble.  You run the risk of delaying the healing.  Bacitracin morning and night.  Spin a few times a day.  Leave them in.  Only use GOLD, white, yellow or rose.

Plated or base metal is a no no.  Have some patience girl!  Depending on "what sport I'm pursuing" I'll change earrings out every week.  That said, I've had mine for four years in both, and before that 25 or more left only.
I never had troubles, redness or other discomfort.  On the other hand my 21 year old daughter has had all sorts of problems with the Helix.  It will generally take 6 - 9 months to heal, but she didn't have the patience  and started changing it out after 6 weeks.

YMMV

Bacitracin is Polysporin which I'm allergic too.  That's why I use Ozonol, and the Ozonol worked.  Plus it seems, at least with both my ears, my eczema was activated and it wasn't just regular swelling from the piercings that I was having.  I was swelling from an allergy to the starter post or needle and it didn't go down until I put some elocom (corticosteroid) on both my ears.  Since I did that, I have switched out my earrings for some cheap earrings and the allergy has not returned. I think any redness I get now is from when I'm changing them and just from hold my ear and finding the back hole (and pricking the inside of my hole trying to get the post through) my ear seems to get red but then it goes away on its own after about half-an-hour to an hour after I put the earrings in.

[NancyDrew1930]

I wore my first pair of hoops today; 10kt gold.  They weren't huggers, but they also weren't large hoops, maybe an inch in diameter, and they were "G" type hoops (I'm not sure if "G" is the right name, but the style reminds me of the letter "G" because it's go the straight post, and curves into a 3/4 circle that looks like "G"). I'll be taking them off and putting studs in when I go to bed, since I don't want to run the risk of the hoops getting caught on my pillow and ripping out of my ears.  They were the smallest out of the 3 I got last week, and I found that on me, that size of hoop looked rather androgynous/masculine.  I think tomorrow I might try one of the larger hoops.  I didn't find that I had much discomfort---a few times I found the one in my right ear gave me a little pain when I tilted my head and it swung.  Of course my right ear is the one I had to get re-pierced back in January.

Otherwise, at work I had some of the women there (and I'm not out at work yet, although they know that I am intersex and my medical issues of the past few years seems to have reactivated my puberty---but this time it's my female puberty only, not my mixed puberty from decades ago), tell me that I put them to shame today with my hoops and I also had my hair done up with clips, as well as makeup and lipstick.  I thought that was a pretty good compliment, especially since I had been having issues with my hair this morning!   

[D'Amalie]

Impressive progress! Hair, make up and earrings.  Giant steps!