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belly piercing
i have my belly button pierced now for about a month and ive had it pierced once before too(i took it out cause the skin kept getting smaller and smaller that the ring was going to fall out) so now i have it pierced again and it was perfect. now the skin is doing the same thing and getting thinner again. will it keep getting thinner or will it eventually get thick again? what could i do to make it stop thinning
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This is called rejection. Rejection is the body's natural defensive maneuver to prevent infections and such.
Your body has no idea that you WANTED to put a piece of metal in your skin. It thinks you've been wounded and it knows that infection may set in if the object stays in (because foreign objects have dirt/bacteria on them). The body knows it needs to get the object out as soon as possible so it does everything it can.
This means the flesh surrounding the piercing will actually sacrifice itself for your life. It will actually die off and the cells will fall off of you little by little. This causes deep scars usually. You can actually visually see the skin thinning when you look at the piercing.
Rejection usually only happens to surface piercings--eyebrows, bellyrings, hips, corset piercing, cleavage, nape, etc.
Rejection will ALWAYS happen with these piercings no matter what. The only way to reduce the scarring from rejection is to take the piercing out early. Some bodies reject quicker than others--some people can go weeks with an eyebrow piercing before it starts to reject and some people can go months before it begins rejecting. It will always happen though.
The only thing you can do is try to slow down the rejection process. This means rinsing the jewelry off with saline solution twice a day and doing everything you can not to put pressure on the bar. With surface piercings, the more you mess with them, the quicker they will come out.
The skin usually begins to be itchy because the cells are dying off so you can live and won't get a major infection. Again, the body doesn't know that the object has been sterilized and was wanted so there honestly is no way to stop rejection.
I also want to note that if your piercing begins to reject and you do not remove the jewelery, it WILL still come out. Your skin seriously just falls off of you little by little until the piercing comes out as well.
Here is an excellent photo sequence in which someone shows how their nape piercing rejected after a few months:
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In short, your skin will not magically get any thicker in that area now. Your body is actually just healing itself by killing off those skin cells. Your body will always do this until the bar completely falls out. You cannot reverse this and, usually, cannot really slow the process down.
I hope I've answered you pretty clearly. If you have any more questions PLEASE feel free to ask me! :)
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it kind of sounds like your body is rejecting the peircing.
i have mine pierced and it hasn't done that.
i would go to the place you got it done at and ask them about it since i'm sure they have had a lot of experience!
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Okay so the same thing happened to me. Except i didn't notice that mine was getting thinner and one day i lifted it up from the bottom and it just ripped out. I was totally grossed out by this. It was bleeding, it didn't hurt or anything. Since you got it pierced again i would highly suggest taking it out right now.
The body isn't made with holes in it, obviously. So when you pierce yourself it's not something that you are born with so your body recognizes it as something new. In some cases, like yours and mine, the body recognizes the piercing kind of like an intruder and it doesn't want it there because it may be harmful to you. So it rejects it, causing your skin to be thinner and thinner until eventually it comes it. It sees it as a threat. The only thing you can do is take it out. If you still want to get it pierced again, wait a year. If you're brave enough, give it another try. But make sure you wait a year or more to let your body completely heal. I hope this helped you a little bit, and good luck!
--Kitty <3
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