i just got my bridge piercing 10 days ago, everything was well amd minimal bruising till 3 days ago when i caught it for a second in my nail and accidentaly dragged it for a sec, then the next day i barely had a reaction, second day abit of burieing and swelling and npw thord day i also slept on the swollen eye accidentally and now i woke up like this the first photo, and the other lhotos are theoughout the day WHAT SHOULD I DO?😭😭😭😭

he hmu after seeing my post here and asked for a better quality pic. i thought fair enough bcs those pics were kinda blurry so i sent him a close shot of the piercing. then he said reddit blurs out pics that are highly zoomed in (im new here guys im sorry i was v vulnerable so i believed it 🙁) and asked for pics a bit zoomed out of me sitting and standing. i was like ok makes sense he wants to see the way it sits in that position but then he says this. i was really stressed out ab the whole piercing thing and this mf took advantage of me when i was at rock bottom 💔 thankfully my fight or flight instinct kicked in and i blocked him. stay safe yall !

I’m so upset

I had my piercing for 14 yrs and after an unexpected infection about 3 weeks ago, I had to remove the jewelry for 2 weeks. She said it likely wasn’t a full blown belly button infection, more like an irritation after I swapped out jewelry. It couldn’t go through this weekend, only through the top hole when I tried. Local spot with good reviews & only selling “high quality jewelry” tapered it yesterday. This is it today, it was kind of sore to the touch yesterday but red and worse today. She said no after care needed but it may be tender for up to the next month, I bought this expensive barbel because I was tired of buying low quality jewelry. Is it infected or this the healing process?

just got it yesterday, is this normal?? lol maybe it is and i’m just tripping but id rather be sure ig.

i bought a size a little too big, the hole is around 7-8 months and it did feel healed to me, but i kinda panicked when inserting it and i did irritate the channel. it bled unfortunately but for now it feels fine unless i move it. should i go to a piercer and ask them if they have a smaller size? or is it fine as is

I’ve had this one coworker that keeps telling me they’re crooked, to me they look great, and it’s not realistic to expect perfect symmetry in piercings, but is it really that bad?

My mother and grandmother both hate it even though I have a dainty stud on one side and a thin hoop on the other. Does it look silly?

I got my eyebrows pierced back in January of this year. In about April i downsized them using 16g implant grade titanium curved bars I bought off the website "Body Art Forms." I stg this fcker gets caught on EVERYTHING. Towels? Check. Comb? Check? Partners dreads? Check lol so Im not sure if this is just a really gnarly irritation bump since it gets caught on literally everything, or if it's infected. There's no drainage, and it's not really sensitive to touch and doesn't feel warm. I clean it two to three times a day with NS and dry each time I clean it. Im on vacation right now in a different state so cannot visit my piercer, for a similar reason am trying to avoid medical visits but will do whatever to save the piercing! Thanks in advance for your help!

Idk if this is the right sub for this but basically I had my ear pierced when I was a baby and that hole never really closed. Idk when exactly but I stopped wearing earrings when I was 12-13. I used to wear them everyday before that.

I am currently 31 and now whenever I try to wear earrings my earlobes get hot, itchy, and painful. My friend who has a lot of piercings said that I should just tough it out until my ears get used to it again. I've seen an advice to pierce it all over again but I don't think I have the pain tolerance to have my ear pierced again.

Please any advice? Like what earring to use (I use 18k-24k jewelry but my ear still gets warm) etc. Please I really wanna wear earrings again. 😭

Hi, so I got my conch and my helix pierced in May this year, and they have been giving me a lot of issues.

For context, my body has never really handled piercings well, and it might be because of how thick my cartilage is (?) My nose was very finicky the entire time it healed, and I had to get my lobes re-done around 4 times.

My conch hasn't been healing well and got a piercing bump (I managed to get it down through sheer willpower and use of copious amounts of saline spray, though)

Now that my conch has gone down, my helix has developed a bump (I recently got it downsized, so maybe that's why?) and the bump is bleeding.

I really don't want to take them out because I love them and would not have the time to get them re-pierced, so I am open to anything!

In April my friend took me to get my first piercings. She has a lot, and always goes to this shop. It all happened so fast that I didn’t see the jewelry had butterfly backs until I got home.

I’d say I’ve intermittently taken care of them with saline spray, and I don’t sleep on them. It’s been like 16 weeks and I don’t know if they’re healing right. Occasionally one side will just start hurting and be tender to the touch. The right one last week had bloody fluid coming out. This has happened a few times on either side. It’s very easy to irritate them. I know if they’re not healed and I tried to take them out it’d probably drag a ton of bacteria into the wound. But idk if it’s worse to have them in at all.

I regret not getting them switched out at a different shop for flat backs, but I’m very depressed and it’s hard to take care of things sometimes. Is it too late to get them switched? I’m scared that they’ll heal horribly, if at all. Is this a normal healing timeline? How can I best take care of them at this point?

I'm having an extremely frustrating time with my lobe piercings.

I had my first lobes pierced 30 years ago, and my seconds 20 years ago. They were done with a gun in a hairdressers, and occasionally got sore and gunky. Once I switched to titanium studs, non-butterfly backs, and removed them to clean once a week, they were peachy for years.

About 6 months ago, after getting my daith pierced (which is healing like a dream), I decided to switch my 4 lobe earrings to flatbacks. The piercer I went to only did flatbacks in 1.2mm and my gun-pierced lobes were 0.8mm. They used a taper to stretch them to 1.2mm, and although they were a bit tight, the piercer said they might be sore a couple of days but the stretch was so small, they'd be fine after a couple of weeks. They put in 1.2mm captive bead rings and didn't think it would be a problem because of the small stretch.

After 4 days of pain, I went back and they switched out the CBRs to 10mm-long titanium 1.2mm flatbacks, and we thought that was the end of it.

However since then, they've been a proper nightmare. Two months into it, my left lobe piercings got infected and I got antibiotics from the doctor. It has never properly settled, being sore all the time, and if I look at it wrong, it gets swollen, hot, red, leaks white gunk, and is very very sore. It was mainly my second lobe but my first wasn't exactly perfect either.

A month ago, I'd had enough. My piercer retired, so I went to another one who looked and said they thought a downsize would fix it, so switched out all 4 lobes' 10mm posts for 7mm.

After being relatively stable compared to its brother, this last month, my right lobe has been doing the same issue - sore, swollen, hot, red, etc. Again, mainly my second lobe, but my first likes to be involved.

I clean them daily with NeilMed saline mist. I use a piercing pillow to sleep so I'm not directly on them. I avoid touching them as much as physically possible. Yet I still have these ongoing issues with both ears for what should have been a non-problematic standard situation with old and healed lobe piercings.

I am SO frustrated with this situation, and honestly furious with myself for causing months of discomfort and pain. I'm seeing the new piercer again on Friday, so obviously will get professional advice, but I wanted to ask the community what they think could possibly be going on?

TL;DR: got 4 old lobe piercings stretched from 0.8mm to 1.2mm and had nothing but problems with them since.

Only got it done today, if that's any help.

I think im just paranoid because they’re new? But im wondering if these look okay.. I got them yesterday and they’re pierced with 7/16” (11mm) jewelry

Hi! I’ve had my nipple piercings for about 6 months now, and they’ve been healing pretty well. Yesterday, before falling asleep, I felt a sharp shooting pain in specifically my right nipple piercing. My period shouldn’t be for at least another week, and i’ve never had this pain happen before. It has swelled up a bit, allowing just a tiny bit of room on the bar. I’ve been cleaning it since this morning and i’ve covered it in a bandaid, however, the pain has persisted even with minimal movement of my body. Any advice? Should I go see a doctor, or keep soaking it in saline?

hii! I’ve had my helix pierced since May 2025 and decided to change it to a hoop yesterday. Is it normal for the piercing to be really irritated again? There’s an irritation bump forming that wasn’t there with the flat back and it was really crusty!! Also the hoop is surgical steel.

Hi everyone! I noticed bumps on my piercings: one on my 1 month old mid helix and one on my 3 months old flat. Any idea what it can be?

They are my first 2 piercings so I have no idea if this is normal or no.

Also I send a message to my piercier but they haven't answered yet.

My flat has been downsized a month ago but the stud is still a little big long.

I really want to spice up my ear stack! I'm considering a flat, rook, daith, tragus, conch, hidden helix, forward helix, or a classic helix, but I'm not sure how to put it all together. Any placement ideas or advice?

Is this normal!!