About two years ago, I was just starting to learn about piercings. I only had my lobes pierced twice and my eyebrow (which I have now retired because I was suspended from school for it), so I hadn't experienced many piercings. But whilst looking through the BME site one particular piercing caught my attention, the industrial piercing. It looked amazing! So I read through plenty of experiences, looked at loads of pictures and decided I wanted to get it done.
At A Glance Author proud-2-be-different Contact joey_j@hotmail.co.uk When N/A Being only 15, I was still in school, so not only did I have to talk my mum into it; I had to find a way of hiding it from school, especially as I had short hair at the time. It took a long time to talk my mum into it, but eventually she accepted it, and I decided I would just cover my piercing with a plaster during school (I only ended up covering it for a few days; they just didn't care about it).
A few days before getting my piercing, I talked to a friend of mine who had an industrial piercing, asked her how much it hurt to get I done, only having a few piercings myself I hadn't really felt any pain from a piercing before. And she told me it's the most painful thing she's been through and she'd been through child birth. That scared me a little, but I was determined to get this piercing. But I was never prepared for the pain I endured.
So a few days later, we had travelled half way up the country to go see a friend of my mums. While we was up there, the local piercing shop had an offer on, £10 a piercing plus the cost of the jewellery, so I begged and begged my mum for about half hour to let me have it done, and she gave in, but wouldn't come in with me as she was afraid of needles. So her friend came in with me.
I'm sitting there in the chair, very very nervous, so nervous I couldn't stop shaking! I saw the needle and everything she was going to use, which made me feel more nervous! But never the less I went through with it. So I closed my eyes, held my mums friends hand. And then it hit me, the worst pain I've ever felt in my life! It hurt so bad, I squeezed my mum's friends hand so tight that it turned blue! But it was over in seconds. Its hurt afterwards, but it was much more bearable than when it was being piercing.
So I came out and I didn't feel so great, so I have to sit back down. I start feeling really dizzy and sick, then all of a sudden everything turns black and I start panicking. Then after I while it went away .so when I felt fine I stood back up and it happened again. This happened a total of 5 times before I could walk away. Ive now learnt that a fizzy drink straight after and something to eat before hand helps to avoid this.
Anyway back to the story, we went back to my mums friends house, which is were we was staying and just the wind outside hitting it made it hurt more! So when we get home my ear was hurting real bad, so I took some painkillers for it and it eased the pain slightly. I later discovered how hard sleeping was, as the side I had piercied was the side I lay on. I didn't want the other side piercied to make sleeping easier, but I didn't have enough cartilage on the other side and it would have just rejected to fast. I tried to avoid sleeping on it, but I must have rolled over during the night as I woke up with my ear covered in blood. And it hadn't bled at all whilst being piercied or for the whole evening afterwards. This happened for a few nights, but afterwards it was fine.
A few weeks later, now back at home, I noticed a small lump on one of the holes. So I poked it slightly, out of curiosity, and pus and blood came out. This worried me, I had no idea what it was, but after a few days of cleaning it went away and I thought nothing of it. But they kept coming back! So I went to my local piercier, he told me it was hypertrophic scaring and they gave me a bendy plastic bar in it, to give it more movement. And this worked brilliantly! They didn't come back, and a while later I could but my normal bar back in, I had a few lumps come back up, but that was it. All in all it took a year and a half to heal. But it was worth it! It looks amazing, and I don't regret it at all.