At A Glance
Author	Anonymous
Contact	anonymous
When	N/A
Location	England

After thinking that I had quite successfully pierced my own left nipple, I decided that it was time to make myself symmetrical again and pierce my right nipple. Since piercing my left nipple, I have wanted to continue and pierce the other, so I returned to the Wildcat website and continued to re-order the same size needle as before, a 14 gauge Introcan Piercing needle and a new 14 gauge (1.6mm) circular barbell.
I also decided that I would go to BME Shop and order myself a box of emla patches; I though it would be worth giving the patches a try as ice seems to be such a messy business.

By the morning of, Wednesday September 25th, 2002 all of my supplies had arrived so it was once again time to set them up.
I managed to find a small serving tray from the kitchen and once I'd washed it I covered it in Kitchen paper and began to lay out the things that I would need, such as Iodine Tincture for cleaning the nipple, jewelry, needle, clamps, elastic band, lubricant, cotton pads, marker pen, the emla patch and an antiseptic spray.

I didn't want to do anything wrong, so I sat back and read the instructions for the emla patch and followed the directions to clean the breast surface area and press the pad firmly in place, leaving it there to take affect for an hour.
That hour seemed to pass incredibly slowly, almost as if time itself knew that I was wanting to get the procedure over and done with as soon as possible; still I managed to find things to do during this time to take my mind off of what I was about to do to myself.

Once the hour was up, I put the bolt across on my bedroom door, lowered the window blind and got ready to go into action.
I took a cosmetic cotton wool pad and poured a small amount of Iodine Tincture over it, then wiped my right breast clean with the solution. Next I took my purple water based pen and started to try and mark two level dots; It took me approximately 15 minutes to mark level dots either side of my nipple, from one angle they would look OK, but from another they looked crooked – it was almost tempting to take a spirit level and try lining them up like that, but after some persistence I managed to mark a pair of dots that I was happy with.

I picked the clamps, (Micro Sponge forceps) off of the tray and clamped my nipple firmly, then quickly wrapped the elastic band around the handles to keep the clamp tight on my nipple, but not so tight that the handles were clipped together.
Making sure that the previously marked purple dots were roughly lined up, I took the piercing needle, lined it up and proceeded to slowly push it through my nipple from the outer, right side though to the inner left side.
I knew straight away that the emla patch hadn't worked correctly as I could feel every single movement of the needle as it forced its way, breaking through my nipple.
It must have taken nearly 5 minutes to force the needle though my nipple, and every second of it was painful, my insides felt like they were twisting, my chest was tight and each time I drew breath I felt as though I was going to be sick – I wanted the entire procedure to be over with right away, but I had to take my time and do it properly!

When the needle was though I pulled it out of the receiving tube and frowned as a small trickle of blood fell from the outer hole and started to make it's was down my breast.
With shaking hands I managed to pick the circular barbell up from off of the tray, remove the threaded ball and push one end of it into the receiving tube, I took a deep breath and carefully pulled the tube and jewelry back though my nipple, once the jewelry was approximately half way through my nipple it pulled loose from the receiving tube so I removed the tube from my nipple and with bloody fingers I managed to push the rest of the barbell through my now painful and aching nipple.

Sitting back into my chair, with a bloody breast, and barbell unfastened through my nipple I felt ill and light headed, I drew a few more deep breaths and then proceeded to fasten the threaded ball in place and clean the blood off of my breast with some antiseptic spray and cotton pads.

I walked over to the large wall mirror mounted on my bedroom wall and with a smile on my face I looked at my reflection, my nipples were once again a matching pair, with shining circular barbells adding to their beauty; although feeling light headed and very sick, I couldn't help but feel complete and totally happy with the finished look.

My nipple continued to weep small amounts of blood for two days after the initial piercing, but regularly cleaning with an antiseptic spray and bathing in warm salt water helped to clean the blood away from the tender nipple area and circular barbell jewelry; and now, nearly two months later my nipples are almost healed and no longer troublesome.

The piercing needle was disposed of in the medical waste bin at my work place, all used materials were thrown into the trash can.

Stating the obvious, D.I.Y piercings are not a good idea, if you don't know exactly what you are doing then it is incredibly easy to cause large amount of damage to the piercing area. There are hundreds of artist out there, all ready and willing to perform any piercing that you may want, in a clean, professional atmosphere and all for a small fee.

Be safe, not stupid; go to a professional with a respected reputation for good quality work.