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Gauges making me nervous.
Ok well I've been gauging my ears and going up a size every couple of weeks. So far, so good. Well I decided tonight to go up to a 2 gauge and I went to take the fours out and noticed that the rubber band backing was missing. Well I was fiddling around with my lobe out of habit and noticed that the inside of my lobe had a ring shape feeling to it. Turns out the rubber band somehow went INSIDE my ear. I started FREAKING out.
I couldn't tell my mom, because she hates me having them in the first place, if anything were to go wrong, she'd instantly make me remove them. But I'm not dumb to the point where if it was gushing blood I wouldn't say anything. But I could see it was sticking out a bit so I took tweezers and it took twenty minutes, but I pulled it out of my ear. Luckily, for the other ear, it was still on my gauge so I could just pull that one out.
I'm just worried that with all the poking around to get to the rubber band, I might've infected my ear somehow. I tried to be as careful as possible not to stab anything and I used saline ( what I use to clean my ears ) and wiped it on the tips of the tweezers to try and clean them a bit as well. Also, after I got it out, it seemed like it was kind of closed ( I think cause of all the I'm sorry, blood build up, but once I stretched my lobes a little I saw the hole again ) and for fear of it closing and having to start all over, I put the gauge back in and clean around it and it seems fine now and it doesn't hurt.
Do you think there is going to be an issue? I think I might go to the piercing place on Friday and get them to check it out. I'm just worried it'd going to get infected or something and I'm scared the rubber band's going to go into my ear lobe again, I don't know how it happened.
And also, how long do you think I should give it till I go up to the 2? I've had the 4's in for about three weeks, but with this whole situation, I'm nervous. I don't know how long it will take the ear lobe to "heal" or do whatever it needs to do.
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I suggest leaving in the 4s for a month. Your ear was bothered, and if you gauge too fast, it'll start to mess up.
Keep cleaning it and don't mess with the gauges too much. If it didn't get red and irritated straight away, and still isn't, I doubt it will get infected, that is, of course if you don't bother your lobes.
But please wait a month before you gauge up in size again, otherwise you could irritate your lobe a lot more and cause problems in the long run.
And going to the piercing studio for them to check it out isn't a bad idea either.
I know this from experience, as I have gauged lobes.
Good luck! :)
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