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Tongue piercing - my body no like

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  • 14-12-2010 6:19pm
    #1
    BananaWhoops
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭


    So it appears my body really is not fond of this piercing business. first skin started to grow over the inside of my nose stud inside my nostril, then the skin on the bottom of my tongue completely grew over the bottom of my tongue bar so I had to get it removed with local anaesthetic and a scalpel, great craic!

    Has anyone else had issues like this? Or am I a mutant!


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    Raze_them_all
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    Mutant tbh.


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    Will
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    Raze - behave.

    Sounds like in both cases that the jewellery was too short to accommodate the piercing I would suggest in future maybe changing your piercer and heading some place different.


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    BananaWhoops
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭BananaWhoops


    Yeah I got them both done in the same place actually. Thanks :D

    (not you Raze :P)


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    Pierced Off
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭Pierced Off


    The only instances of skin growing over a piercing I have ever come across were either the piercings were done incorrectly or jewellery was too short. It is very unusual as the body usually tries to reject foreign objects rather than encapsulate them. I would try another reputable piercer and have a chat with them before hand. Explain your history and let them have a look at the sites of previous piercing to see if there is anything noticable about the sites. And above all please don't let the mistakes of a minority put you off piercings, most piercers do get it right.


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    DonnyTheDon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭DonnyTheDon


    Pierced Off wrote: »
    The only instances of skin growing over a piercing I have ever come across were either the piercings were done incorrectly or jewellery was too short. It is very unusual as the body usually tries to reject foreign objects rather than encapsulate them. I would try another reputable piercer and have a chat with them before hand. Explain your history and let them have a look at the sites of previous piercing to see if there is anything noticable about the sites. And above all please don't let the mistakes of a minority put you off piercings, most piercers do get it right.
    No no no. Most get it wrong. Trust me. Far more bad than good. Same goes for tattooing. Be more selective ask more questions. You can't be picky enough.


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    Raze_them_all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    DonnyTheDon wrote: »
    No no no. Most get it wrong. Trust me. Far more bad than good. Same goes for tattooing. Be more selective ask more questions. You can't be picky enough.
    Thats right, you tell the actual body piercer the story. Good man.:rolleyes:


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    shortie_chik
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    Now I'm not a real doctor so can't formally diagnose mutations ;) but I've heard of skin growing over piercings before. Years ago my sister had her ears (lobes) pierced with a gun by a local jeweller. She got those skinny little sleeper rings in & the skin started growing over them within a few days. Can't remember all the detail, but I think she just took them out & put studs in & this solved it. She doesn't seem to have any issues with her ears now, but this is about 20 years on & she's wearing good quality jewellery now!


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    SR123
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    None of my piercings have gone like that. Have most of them for years, but got left nipple done yesterday. Here's hoping my luck stays!;)


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    mahamageehad
    Registered Users Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    the skin grew over my navel piercing. it was fúckin disgustin!! Its rare but i happens!! I was put on these calf-killer sized antibiotics for a week and if they didn't work i was told it would have to be surgically removed... :/ :eek:
    Thankfully they worked but it almost put me off piercings!! There was no real reason for it, the bar was long enough as i could see the skin growing around both sides of the bar and the positioning was perfect as I had it looked at by another reputable piercer when it was healed and he said position was grand?!!? He couldn't understand why it would happen, said sometimes there's just no reason and the body just doesn't like em!! :/

    However 4 years later I plucked up the courage to get another piercing, told em about my previous piercings and infection history and they used bioplastic. 1 month later...it's still perfect!! :):) only sorry I let a few bad piercings (2 holes in each lobe infected as well, had to remove 2) put me off for so long!


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