I guess I'll start off with the usual. My name's Heather, I'm 15, and I'm from Brooklyn, N.Y.
At A Glance Author Hederbean Contact sweetpea82286@aol.com When Six months ago Artist Adam I had originally wanted to get my tongue pierced for the longest time. I soon realized that I have a weird tongue. My tongue web is really far up to the tip of my tongue, leaving no room for a tongue ring. I then realized that my tongue web is kinda on the large side, so I thought, "hmm, maybe I should get that pierced." Well after hearing numerous responses such as "gross" and "ew Heder" to my decision of wanting to get my tongue web pierced, I decided to get it, I thought it was a really cool piercing.
My friend Marell and I were then off to Adam's house via the S78/79. Adam works at a few piercing studios, but it's just easier to get pierced at his house on his days off, rather than at the studio. If we go to the studio, then we have to pay full price just for the fact that we're in there, even thought Adam's using all of his equipment. I wound up getting my tongue web and my rook pierced for $20 cause Adam is the coolest and doesn't charge me anywhere near normal price.
My rook migrated out after 2 weeks, but that's another gross story in itself. So Marell went first and got her snug and nape pierced, if I remember correctly. Then it was my turn. I never found anything painful, so I wasn't nervous or anything like that. The rook was uncomfortable, but not too bad, I wish it wouldn't have rejected, but oh well.
After my rook, I was ready to have my web done. Adam put on his gloves, sterilized the clamp (which was put in an autoclave), unwrapped the needle etc. Then I rinsed my mouth out with half Listerine, half water. Now when it comes to the actual piercing of my tongue web it was just a kind of awkward experience. It didn't help that Marell kept making me laugh, so I couldn't hold my mouth steady while he tried to clamp it and pierce it. So I'm sitting there laughing like a cock while Marell makes dumb faces at me. Then Adam was starting to get pissed off, so I stopped acting dumb, but by that time my tongue felt numb to the roof of my mouth, so when he said move it up more, I thought it was up as far as it went. Then he finally pierced it, after Marell tore my cheek away from my head so Adam could see what he was doing.
In the process of trying to get the tiny curved barbell in, I ripped it. And when I say "ripped" I mean the entire barbell with ball went through the hole, stretching the hole and causing Adam to say "fuck Heather, you just ripped the whole thing!" So I went to the bathroom to rinse out my mouth. Then I went back to him and he put it back in the nicely torn hole, put on the other ball and that was that, no pain, no nothing.
It was a tad uncomfy eating for the next couple of hours, but that's all. Not a bad uncomfy, just weird. I rinsed my mouth with mouthwash for around 2 weeks, and it seemed to heal pretty well. This piercing heals really quickly, as do most oral piercings. It healed in around 2 weeks. Around a month or 2 later I realized that nasty calcium buildup gets all over the jewelry causing it to look oh so nasty. Mouthwash doesn't really get rid of it; I honestly don't know how to clean it so well. So I tried cleaning it with a toothbrush, which did shit.
I completely forgot about the whole cleaning aspect until around a month later when I was eating lunch with my aunt and cousins and it fell out while I was eating. It had ripped through the hole again because all the calcium buildup had made the hole bigger. I had to go into the stupid restaurant bathroom and from there went the whole ordeal of trying to get it back in, but I couldn't get the fuckin tiny ball back on. Then I promptly dropped one of the balls and my 5 year old cousin managed to find it (thank god for really short people.) I consequently cleaned it thoroughly when I got home. Then I tried again to screw the ball on, which was a pain in the ass.
A bunch of people are like "wow, didn't that hurt?" I guess that would be the initial reaction, but I was always thinking too logically, like how the fuck would it hurt, the tissue is too thin to have enough nerves to actually hurt. Some very obnoxious kids continuously ask to see it. That's just so annoying, I don't think the piercing is all that interesting.
Anyway, so that was my tongue web experience. You don't feel it at all in your mouth once you forget it's there. It hardly ever gets in the way when you're eating, that also just takes some getting used to. I would imagine that having a cbr in it would be more annoying than a barbell, unless the cbr's really tiny. I put one in once and it was more evident to me that it was in my mouth. It's virtually painless and really cool to have, so if you want it, I say go for it. You don't feel it when you kiss or anything, at least no one has ever mentioned it to me, so I'm guessing it doesn't get in the way of anything or affect anything at all for that matter.
If you have any questions, email my dumb ass.