I've written a few experiences for BME, 2 or 3 i'm not quite sure. but before I started to write this one I decided to read the others. I read the first one, about my rook. I think it's called "the never ending infection" or something like that. But reading through it I realized how naïve I was. It's been almost a year since, and I've been pierced 7 or 8 times. I said I'd stick to ear piercings, but I haven't! I've branched out! I've gotten my tongue web(which is what this is about), scrumper and most recently a piercing I said I'd NEVER get done. I got my nipples pierced and most recently my septum. But this is about my tongue web saga.
At A Glance Author -jess- Contact -jess-@bme.anon IAM jessie_jrt When A year ago Artist pete Studio mild to wild Location ottawa, ontario It started out the in the last two weeks before summer break. Tia and I were in Career Studies class wasting our time on the computers, introducing people to the wonderful, open, beautiful world of www.bme.freeq.com when we decided we needed to get something done. I wanted to get a tattoo, two sparrows on the front of each shoulder. But I was too much of a pussy and decided to wait. I was looking through the different oral piercings and saw the tongue web piercing. It was perfect, I could hide it from my parents it healed quickly according to others...so...it was perfect.
So we planned to go downtown that weekend. I started telling people I was going to get it done they freaked! I got the rudest comments from friends, but I was like "what the hell, I don't care what you think". So that Saturday, Tia and I headed downtown to Mild To Wild (which is closed now, and I regret going there sometimes). Anyways, I was nervous, cause if I got caught I'd be in deep shit. So Tia went first. She hopped up onto the bed, and opened her mouth wide, (which isn't anything new for her). Pete shoved the needle through and she was done. She hopped down, and I hopped up. He looked at my web and told me that it was weirdly shaped or something, which it is, but I decided to go through with it anyways. I tried to hold my tongue up as he shoved his hands in my mouth, which wasn't working. He finally got it through the skin, and I started to bleed. It bled for about ten minutes then it stopped. It hurt so bad!!! I had never felt that pain in my whole life. It was worse then the snug, which up to that point was the worst thing I had ever felt. So I was light headed, and dizzy walking around downtown Ottawa, which wasn't fun. We met up with some friends at the Rideau Centre, and the dizziness turned into hyperness when I got to show off my new piercing. Later that day i took the bus to the mall closest to my home, then walked the rest of the way. On the walk, i encountered my parents who were on they're way to Montreal for the week-end to see my aunt and uncle. They stopped the van, and flagged me over. I almost peed myself thinking about how much trouble i'd be in if they found out. They asked my how my day was and kept driving. When i got home, my little brother was sitting on the front steps, smoking himself stupid. Since my tongue area was a little swollen, he noticed I was talking differently and asked me why. I ignored him and went inside. Those next few days were as expected. "OMG you got that pierced!" The usual reaction. But I was excited to show anyone who asked. And I did.
The healing process started. Pete's instructions were simple: no meat (no problem), no diary (again, no problem), and Listerine. Seemed easy to me. It was, I followed the rules and it was healing fine, or so I thought. My web slowly began growing skin; they weren't keloids, on either sides of the hole. It was disgusting, and painful. I cleaned it the way I was told to, but they "things" wouldn't go away. The were nasty as hell, they'd bleed every now and then, and the cbr I had in it was slowly beginning to tear out of my mouth.
Finally I decided to take it out, after the 6 months I had it, it was time. It was easy to remove, but to heal it without the cbr in it, was a bitch. It wouldn't heal, no matter what I did. So after a year of trying to heal my tongue web, its healed, and I'm left with a majorly deformed tongue web, which is not only painful, but painfully ugly. Recently I went to another place to get their opinions on what had happened to my mouth, like what I should do and stuff like that. The person said that if he looked at it and knew it wasn't a normal shape he shouldn't have pierced it. I shouldn't have let him pierce it.
I don't regret it, I don't think I ever will, but I know that if someone is willing to do something that you aren't physically meant to have done, then you shouldn't do it. Ah well, it was definately an experience. Until next time...