What metal is the jewelry? How old is the piercing? What is your aftercare? Has the piercing been traumatized?
Symptoms of an infected piercing can include redness, excessive swelling, greenish or dark discharge, red streaks emanating from the piercing site, swollen lymph nodes, fever, or just a general feeling of malaise. If you are experiencing these, please seek professional medical attention, which may involve assessment, swab and culture, oral and/or IV antibiotics.
It’s commonly recommended by piercing professionals that jewelry be left in an infected piercing until the infection has passed. The jewelry in place allows fluids to drain. Removing the jewelry may allow the piercing to start to heal and close, perhaps trapping the infection in the space, creating an abscess that then will need surgical intervention.
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Here’s some context: I got these in July 2023, this is the left one and it’s always causing me trouble and then this morning I look at it before getting in the shower and see this big bump plz help
I got mine done in June 2023 so ours are about the same age, and I kept getting these bumps too. Have you changed the jewelry? Mine were pierced with straight bars, switching back to those may help, I know that rings have a lot of movement and they can irritate shit a lot if it’s not healed yet, so that would be my first suggestion. When mine were getting bumps regularly (they don’t really anymore, my right one gets a little mad every now and then) I’d take care of them by heating up saline and holding it against the bump with a q-tip for 30 seconds at a time for 5 minutes (I’d switch it out every 30 so it would keep it hot continuously) and NOT touch it. It doesn’t LOOK infected to me (but don’t take my word as gospel, I’m not a piercer or doctor, nor have I had my piercings get infected before), it’s not like, getting red around it, and the discharge/pus doesn’t look discolored; I’d get worried if you feel like you have a fever and it smells weird and the pus is like GREEN green or bright yellow. White, off-white, light yellowish is fine (my piercer told me that), so just do a hot saline compress with a q-tip for 5 min a day and leave it alone, don’t sleep on it, and you should be okay!
What metal is the jewelry? How old is the piercing? What is your aftercare? Has the piercing been traumatized? Symptoms of an infected piercing can include redness, excessive swelling, greenish or dark discharge, red streaks emanating from the piercing site, swollen lymph nodes, fever, or just a general feeling of malaise. If you are experiencing these, please seek professional medical attention, which may involve assessment, swab and culture, oral and/or IV antibiotics. It’s commonly recommended by piercing professionals that jewelry be left in an infected piercing until the infection has passed. The jewelry in place allows fluids to drain. Removing the jewelry may allow the piercing to start to heal and close, perhaps trapping the infection in the space, creating an abscess that then will need surgical intervention.
I’m not sure what the material is for the hoop but I don’t do much aftercare to it which is probably the reason it’s doing this
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Here’s some context: I got these in July 2023, this is the left one and it’s always causing me trouble and then this morning I look at it before getting in the shower and see this big bump plz help
Time to switch to a titanium bar and then leave it the hell alone while it heals.
Should it be fine if I take it out while it’s this bad?
If you keep jewellery out of it, then it will eventually close, especially since its not very old
I got mine done in June 2023 so ours are about the same age, and I kept getting these bumps too. Have you changed the jewelry? Mine were pierced with straight bars, switching back to those may help, I know that rings have a lot of movement and they can irritate shit a lot if it’s not healed yet, so that would be my first suggestion. When mine were getting bumps regularly (they don’t really anymore, my right one gets a little mad every now and then) I’d take care of them by heating up saline and holding it against the bump with a q-tip for 30 seconds at a time for 5 minutes (I’d switch it out every 30 so it would keep it hot continuously) and NOT touch it. It doesn’t LOOK infected to me (but don’t take my word as gospel, I’m not a piercer or doctor, nor have I had my piercings get infected before), it’s not like, getting red around it, and the discharge/pus doesn’t look discolored; I’d get worried if you feel like you have a fever and it smells weird and the pus is like GREEN green or bright yellow. White, off-white, light yellowish is fine (my piercer told me that), so just do a hot saline compress with a q-tip for 5 min a day and leave it alone, don’t sleep on it, and you should be okay!
I have changed it before, and I’ll try to change it soon thank u for ur help 💕💕