My cartilage piercing is red, swollen, very painful…HELP!?
Ok so I been reading everyone question and answers about cartilage piercing. Since I didn’t do my homework about not piercing my ear with a gun. It’s to late to be sorry. It’s been 4 days and I woke up this morning with my ear swollen, red, a little discharge. All day I been doing sea salt soaks. It’s been taking the pain away a little, but not he swelling. I also been taking Advil for the pain to completely stop throbbing. I sure I have an infection. And since I have a jewelry stud in and not a hoop. My question Is should I take the butterfly backing off and leave the Jewelry Stud in? (Because I would really love to keep the piercing, If I can) And do you think that would help it take the swelling away with sea salt soaks, so I can go to a professional to put a hoop in? Oh how long should the red swelling last even if the stud stays in or not?
go take it to a real piercing studio and they’ll be able to fix you up properly with a wick to drain fluids and jewelry to heal. don’t go to a doctor, since they will make you remove the stud, which would close the hole and trap the infection.
go take it to a real piercing studio and they’ll be able to fix you up properly with a wick to drain fluids and jewelry to heal. don’t go to a doctor, since they will make you remove the stud, which would close the hole and trap the infection.
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Yes, it’s infected, and you need antibiotics. See a doctor, not someone to put a hoop in.
You should probably give it up for now, let it heal and in a few months after it’s healed over, have it done properly and cleanly. Don’t go back to the same place!
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im a body pearcer and put some viniger on it it may hirt but it will do the trick or go to your local peircing shop and get a lotion called pain freeze it will make it numb 4 a while but it will get better
hope all goes well
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coz im a profesainal body peaircer
Red & swelling is not normal. I would try peroxide. Put on with a clean Q-tip that way you can get under the earring better.
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I think you need an antibiotic by now. Wait for it to heal, then go to a professional place it done right.
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That’s completely normal for the first few days with any piercing. And yeah, you should get to a professional & have them put a ring in. It would better accommodate the swelling, and is just better quality.
The swelling should only last for around a week, but again, that jewelry may make it swell for longer.
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Don’t fool around with this. Get to a doctor tomorrow. Let the doctor decide how to handle your infection and what to do about your piercing.
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common sense. And being a grandmother.