I wanted to hear anyone's experiences with bad piercings. I have already posted a question about this but wanted to know if there were more out there with similar experiences. I have taken out my daughter's wrongly placed piercings (after three weeks) and am letting them grow over. A few kind people have responded but am wondering if there are more of you out there who can give me more information.
I you took out a fresh piercing, did it heal well? Can you notice scarring? How did repiercing go?
I would really like to hear from those with similiar experiences. This is causing me a great deal of stress and I would really love some reassurance for later.
Regards,
B.
Thank you for the kind words and helpful suggestions from so many of you. To some of you, this may seem trivial but it is really traumatic for me as I feel a huge amount of guilt for taking my daughter to such an inexperienced piercest. Of course I did not know this at the time but I did feel a little uneasy and asked for a second opinion and then she reassured me. If only I had walked out. There were also another number of circumstances that led to us changing our mind about where to get my daughter pierced. If one of those things had/had not happened I would have gone with my original decision at another shop.
I am particularly concerned at any health risks I may have put my daughter through - if the piercest made so many other mistakes, did she put my daughter at harm? She had to have a full blood test anyway so we have tested for the most common blood borne diseases and so far so good but I am sick to death with worry in regards to her health.
I have actually started on medication to control the physical symptoms I have been having. They are working as when they wear off I can feel the symptoms returning. I hope this is short term. I have started therapy in an online course with phone contact with a counsellor once a week - though I can contact at any time. I do feel I can think clearer when my symptoms are reduced and function for my family.
I just can't stop thinking that if one circumstance had been changed, the outcome would be so different. I'm not sure my anxiety is purely about the scarring (though it is reassuring that so many of you have had good outcomes) but the guilt I feel for putting her in the situation.
We took out piercings that had some tearing and are allowing them to heal over. I also felt a lot of fear and guilt (my baby's lovely earlobes!), but as each day passes and the skin looks better, I know I did the right thing. We plan to use Mederma or the like this summer.
They can be re-pierced in a decade or so at her choice.
It really is no big deal. My son had his done twice and we found out that he simply does not react well to piercing and they refused to heal so both times we let them close back up. There is a tiny scar, but really who cares about a scar the size of the tip of a pin?
The best way to avoid misplacement is to go to an actual piercing shop next time. I worked at Walmart and all we had to do to be certified to pierce ears was watch a 10 minute video and pierce one co-worker. It is best to see a professional even thought it will cost more.
B., it will be fine! I have had my ears pierced MANY times. One of them, I did myself. My mom asked me to take it out and it healed up. We repierced later. No problem. In fact, I just looked in a mirror and you would never know it had been there.
Please, do not stress about this. Your girl is not irrevocably scarred-- she will be fine and so will her ears. :)
I mean this kindly, you really should seek some help. Really this is nothing to worry about. Lots of people get their ears pierced and re-pierce as it's really not a big deal. Who the heck would ever notice someone's earlobe anyways so so what if it does(potentially) leave a tiny scar. Please seek some help, stuff happens and you need to be able to move on.
It will heal just fine. You don't need to worry at all. If she has a teeny weeny itsy bitsy mark left in her ear, it WILL NOT MATTER. But it will probably heal completely.
People take piercings out and let them heal over ALL THE TIME.
You need to stop worrying. This is nothing. And your daughter did not get a disease from the instruments.
And yes, counseling might be good for you, because this is verging on a phobia, and is completely irrational.
I have known several people that have let them close up and there is no scaring to speak of. They just pulled them out and moved on with life. No scar, nothing. I think this is why so many people are dismissing your over concern. You could post has anyone ever got a scar from letting their ear piercing close up and I would bet not one person would answer!
You are worrying over nothing.
All of mine are closed. You'd have to be inches away from my ear to know that they were pierced. Were I in the habit of wearing earings, any earings I wore in the new piercings would likely draw the eye away from the tiny remnants of the old holes.
B. C. I do hope for your sake, and for your daughter's that you figure out how to find peace about this.
Best,
F. B.
your concern over a piercing.. ( a needle hole) in your daughters ear is totally irrational.
I am sure you have gotten your daughter all worked up over this too.
Yes the hole will close in time. give it months.. to totally close... if you took a magnifying glass and looked at her ear in 20 years you might see a dot. but no one will ever ever notice it.. unles they are an inch from her hear and staring at her ear..
she can have her ears repierce .. I would wait at least 6 months..
really it is a tiny hole it will heal.. she will fall down and scrape her knee.. she will get splinters and bug bites.. it is norma.
she is fine..
I do hope you are getting some help for your anxiety. Needing and receiving reassurance over every event that goes wrong in your day to day life will only help with that single event. Not with your overall anxiety. You need to learn some coping skills to get yourself over these bumps in the road.
I had mine pierced for the first time in late elementary school (5th grade I think). They were very sensitive and would get infected even when I wore earrings with 14k gold posts. I let them close and heal completely. Tried again in high school and everything went fine. Once I knew they were fine I got a second hole which was popular at the time. I didn't wear earrings in the second hole often enough and they closed up. I don't notice a scar from either time I let my piercings close and have never had anyone comment on noticing any scars. Even if there is a scar, you would be talking about a pin sized scar on an earlobe. How often would anyone really notice that? I think you can stop worrying. I would allow several years before repiercing but I'm confident that the bad piercing will not effect your daughter in the long run!
I've had two piercings grow over. One when I was 4 and it was infected and one when I was 16 and it was crooked. It's fine. For a little while I could *maybe* feel the old piercing if I tried but now you would never know. She'll be fine. Honest.
I'm glad you are getting help, because your reactions to these situations can be worse than the situation itself and that's not good for you or your daughter.
Let go of the guilt!
There's only O. person I know if that was perfect.
ALL humans make mistakes.
Time to put this behind you & move FORWARD!
It will be fine.
The holes will close and heal.
Good as new.
Your daughter needs a whole mom, not O. riddled with guilt.
Good luck!
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Let go of the guilt!
There's only O. person I know if that was perfect.
ALL humans make mistakes.
Time to put this behind you & move FORWARD!
It will be fine.
The holes will close and heal.
Good as new.
Your daughter needs a whole mom, not O. riddled with guilt.
Good luck!
My mom had her ears pierced by her sister as a kid (think old school: needle and thread), and while the holes did close up the little scars stayed (her mom made her take them out immediately, they were also off center). She had them re-pierced as an adult and the new holes don't cover the old scars since they are now correctly placed, but it's not really noticable. I would wait a long time before subjecting a child to another piercing, especially if they only problem was that they weren't in the exact spot you wanted. Earrings in little kids are more trouble than they are worth in my opinion, it's painful and can lead to infections if not correctly cared for. I always just shake my head when I see little tiny kids with pierced ears. After my mom's bad experience, my sister and I had to wait until we were 13 to get ours pierced, that way we were old enough that it was OUR decision what to do to our bodies and we were mature enough to care for the new piercings ourselves.
When I was little, my mom took me to Claire's to get mine pierced. They told me my ear lobes were too small to get pierced, but they would try. As a result, one was basically at the very edge of my earlobe. The earring ripped out (painlessly) one night when I was taking my clothes off. The hole had just ripped through the end of my ear.
Once that healed over - took a few months, my mom took me to the doctor to have it done. Magically, they had no problem doing it and there was plenty of space on my lobes for a piercing.
Still have those holes today. :)
The old hole did not close back to a smooth surface. There is a divot where the whole was in both ears. But you'd never know it to look at it.
She will be fine. Infected piercings happen for a million reasons every day.
It really is no big deal.
I took out my second hole and it closed up fiine. I suggest you find a dr's office that does piercings. I wouldn't trust any other place.
I haven't read all of your answers or posts so I apologize if this is a duplicate of information which you have already received. My daughter was 6 when she got hers done. We did it at Claires at the mall. She has had no issues. Not sure where your daughter got hers done but if you let them heal and I have heard of people going to a tattoo place to have them to the piercings b/c they are so very strict and sterile and trained. I am sure that if there is a scar, it will be minimal and if she gets her ears re-pierced, the new earring may cover it. Please don't worry about this. Things happen, its not that you did anything wrong, its just one of those stories that she will look back on and remember. She won't hold you accountable for something out of your control. My kids have scars from scrapes and cuts, its just part of who they are.
B.,
You said yourself you are a worrier so you may be making this a bigger issue than it really is. This is coming from someone who is a "worrier" as well.
Yes, I had both my children's ears pierced and had issues with both. My older one had her ears pierced overseas and once she got back to America they became infected. She was just a baby, maybe a year old, and I took the earrings out and did not put them back in again until a year or so later. In that time the holes did not close up completely. I forgot what i was putting on her ears to keep them from becoming more infected. My four year old has hers pierced as a baby. The earrings were constantly coming off and she just did not like them in her ears so I took them out. Those holes are still visible slightly.
I hope you are able to get past this without too much trauma.
My aunt pierced my ears the old fashion way when I was 5. My mother couldn't take care of them so she let them close. I have what looks like a little dot where the hole used to be but it's not noticible. I had them pierced again when I was 12. When I was 18 and just new I was an adult I had 2 more piercings in each ear. At 30 I got sick of both and stopped wearing earrings in them. I can't get an earring in them but the holes are not that noticible.
I guess my scaring are little dots that where once pierced. I never had problems with them. Good luck
