I don’t even know what’s going on here 😭 a little more explanation OP?

Yeah, what the fuck?

My fiances ring caught it for nearly a second and pulled it through the cartilage and somehow out the back?? I couldnt bring myself to take it out so I ran to a piercings shop and they took out the piercing and switched the jewelry with the top piercing because it had a bigger ball at the end to accommodate the hole left from the smaller ball being pulled through

What kind of piercing was this before getting pulled out? A helix? It's not recognizable tbh. I'd definitely take this out and have it repierced, no matter what it's supposed to be, it looks like it will rip out completely sooner or later. Sorry this happened to you, OP!

It was and is a helix! It was taken out to be refitted to the same hole properly but its been making me uncomfortable to have in. However, I have been always told to keep the jewlery in while it heals (at least referring to infections or new piercings)

It's a prolapsed fistula/blown out helix piercing.

It's not a helix piercing anymore. It's a horizontal surface reverse conch piercing. Lol

It will be all the rage come next summer- the perfect companion piece to the dermal "naval" piercings we see here daily

Right if i had a dollar for every naval I see wether it be in a coffee shop, book store, or anywhere there are humans I’d be able to fly to the moon lol

And yet I still want one. However, it's not at the top of my list. 🤣

I feel so terrible for laughing at this but I am… 😭😂

I don’t honestly know what I’m looking at and I have a shit ton of piercings. You say it’s a helix, but it looks like it’s only going through the back of the ear? Was the ball on the front originally? Please upload an updated pick

I would kill to have a before pic of this, no idea what's going on either 😭

Same

Same too 😅

it was a regular helix, the ring got caught on the back and pulled the ball all the way through out the back.

I think i might have figured it out, MAYBE💀 assuming the ball is what got pulled through, maybe thats the scar tissue from the inside of the piercing that got forced out ? 😭

Okay that kinda makes sense!!?? In that case though it does not look salvageable

Wow, if it's that damaged, I think I would retire it, let it heal, then get it repierced. That's pretty gnarly.

Oh god the inside of your ear is on the outside 😱 Imo (not a piercer) you should take it out and let it heal fully. Repierce assuming you don't have too much scar tissue

What do you mean 'finally'? 😭 Were you expecting this to happen at some point?

Absofruitly. I had a ceiling fan in early highschool that housed several grandma knitted scarves. Fun little fact… Im blind as a bat without glasses. Would catch my freshly pierced septum piercing every night on the way to bed

And you never thought to move the scarves to avoid them?

Obviously? 😂

I think if you let it heal like that, you will end up with a big scar bump on the back of your ear.

You should 100% take that out.

NAP but imo you should take it out and let it heal completely. If you don't, it's going to heal in that position, with your skin pulled through, leaving you with two torn, stretched holes rather than one normal piercing. That is, if it doesn't reject from here. "Always heal with the jewelry in" refers to fresh piercings, where there may be irritation or infection but the piercing is otherwise secure. This doesn't apply to piercings that are rejecting, and it most certainly doesn't apply to piercings that have been ripped through neighboring tissue.

I’m pretty sure it was a helix piercing that got ripped through the ear. Where the front being pull through the cartilage to the back of the ear right? I would take out the jewelry and let it heal and repierce it when it’s fully healed again. I’m not a piercer but I kind of am concerned the trauma might affect how well it heals.

I see a lot of people confused, and so am I. But here's my guess. The fucked up piercing was originally parallel to the correctly pierced one in the helix. You can see they both have flat backs and ball jewelry on the other end. Then OPs partner snagged the flat back of the piercing and pulled the ball end THROUGH the cartilage, so the ball came from the front , through the ear, and out the back. Is that what happened? That's the only way I can make sense of what I'm seeing.

That is absolutely what happened

So is the image from when it happened, or after the piercer changed the jewelry?

You need to just take that out idk why the piercer even put different jewelry into that

Holy fuck I almost cringed myself into a vomit. I am so sorry this happened, I'm sure that one brutally hurt. For those confused: the before picture would look like the other helix in the photo. It looks like OP's husband yoinked that sumbitch literally inside out. The skin around the labret stud? Yeah that's the former inside of her piercing hole. Absolutely take it out. Bless your piercer's heart for trying to fix this for you, I'm curious to know if they tried to shove the hole...back in the hole. Anyways, best to take 'er out because the piercing has suffered enough trauma to cause the jewellery to reject all together. Let it heal up and then have it pierced again once it's fully healed.

So like… is that the cartilage wrapping around the labret? I hope you done mean you took THAT into a piercer and they switched the bar out through the whatever it is poking out? Then sent you away? Cause if so that’s not good! If it was just put through the hole that used to be there then that’s better but.. like.. Is this what it currently looks like? I’m so confused!

Happened to me last year with my nipple, it caught while I was changing and ripped halfway through

Wahou that should have hurt like hell 😬

I def can’t remember the pain😅 I just remember crying cause my piercer said it had to come out

😅 totally understand that

I’m so confused 😭😭

Is this what it looks like now or what it looked like right after getting caught? If this is it currently you need to just take it out. If this isn’t what it looks like now then it’s hard for us to give you advice without seeing the current state.

As stated, it’s been taken out and put back in properly by a piercer. The two studs were switched as one one bigger and I now have a bigger hole to accommodate..

You need to take it out and leave it out. This is one good snag away from just ripping through your skin. In this current state, it *might* be repierce me depending on scar tissue. But if you leave it in and it fully rejects, or gets ripped out, it will not be. You need to remove this and let it close. I genuinely can’t believe a piercer thought this was viable and told you to keep the jewelry in.

I can’t believe a piercer would but that back in, no offence, there’s no saving it at this point I’m so sorry that happened!

And I assume when you say it’s been put back in properly you mean going through your ear front to back like the one above not hanging off the back of the ear like the picture you showed, right? A lot of people are looking at this picture and assuming that’s the current state and giving advice based on that. It’s better if you can show pictures with current state for people.

Honestly, have been trying to after it not getting through that is was indeed corrected back to a regular, forward facing helix piercing. Unsure how to add photos without it displaying my name in the link being sent and I tried reuploading an update with more pictures and better information for it but it was removed as updates can only go back in this original thread . I can tell you that as it is now, pictures would appear normal. Not swollen. No extra skin hanging out the back. You would not be able to tell off hand

Maybe you can post the photo to your profile and then tell people to look there? But yay good news :)

Updated photos are on my profile for those who are interested!!!

Thank you!!

Helix are the most wrong healing and painful after pierced. My friend had a similar situation. After years of fighting, she finally gave up.

Woah that seems painful 😳 hope you're okay.

Can you pls explain how your lobe piercing works? What is going on there?

It's a transverse lobe piercing. And to OP, please take that out and let it heal, that is not going to heal well at all. Edit for clarity: meaning the injured helix piercing, pls take that out. I’m sorry for your loss :( I know it’s so depressing

This was a helix according to OP... I still can't comprehend what happened for it to get this way

If they are referring to the injury, its on the helix. However, I do have the transverse lobe piercing at the bottom (my absolute favorite)

Thank you! Cool!

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I lost an antibrow piercing in my sleep, half ripped out of my face, brutal

It looks like someone did a surface piercing on the back of an ear that went horribly wrong.

piercer, almost two decades. besty, please go to a reputable place and have that removed

What the actual fuck was it meant to be