Help! Stretched tongue piercing
BALDWIN AARON P
I have had a tongue piercing for almost a year now. I have worn the
original barbell all of this time without incident. But yesterday
something odd happened. The barbell just fell out. The ball pulled right
through the pierce, easily and without any pain. I experimented and
pushed it right back through again. Again it moved way to easily, the
only thing was that it felt kind of creepy passing through. I figure
the solution would be to get larger balls (the current ones are 4mm),
but I am afraid that if it continues I could quickly end up with a major
hole in my tongue. Is this typical? Do I play with it too much? Would it
help to get a shorter barbell with bigger balls? Or should I just go
with it and go up about 8 gauges? Please e-mail me if you can help.
Thanks- Aaron
Justine McIntyre
>
>In article <479ftq$i...@ivaldi.jun.alaska.edu>,
>4mm = 10g!!!! Have you considered going to a larger gauge? And get
rid of
>the 4mm balls: go to at least 6mm, if not larger. You could probably
shorten
>the barbell so it was tight on the tongue if you get larger balls.
>
>BTW We have a client who got his piercing out west (location shall
remain
>nameless) with a 14g bb and 4mm balls. Top ball was pulled into his
tongue
>(too short with major swelling) and the piercing healed around it. He
now has
>a barbell sticking out of the bottom of his tongue, with no hole
through the
>top. He is not happy, and he has not found a surgeon who will touch
it. I
>have seen too many people with 4mm balls buried in swollen tissue, and
I
>shudder when I hear of tongue piercings with 4mm balls on the
barbells.
ngue>Please spread the word that 6mm balls are safer for initial
placement.
>
>Roger Monahan
>
>BlackStar Professional Body Piercing and Body Jewelry
>70 George Street, Second floor
>Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 8W5
>
>Phone:(613) 789-7187 email: blck...@magi.com
>Fax:(613) 833-1596 WWW: http://infoweb.magi.com/~blckstar/
Hi! Im new to this, and forgot I had subscribed, but was very happy
I had when I caught up on the postings. I'm sure you've gotten this
question a thousand times, but what is the best advice on tongue
piercing? Im dying to get it done, but want to be safr about it. Also,
I can only wear gold in my ears ( so I dont wear earrings) and I dont
want a gold barbell. What material is non-allergenic?
Any advice at all would be much appreciated :)
Thanks,
Justine (Pixydustr)
keith lim
>BTW We have a client who got his piercing out west (location shall remain
>nameless) with a 14g bb and 4mm balls. Top ball was pulled into his tongue
>(too short with major swelling) and the piercing healed around it. He now has
>a barbell sticking out of the bottom of his tongue, with no hole through the
>top.
This could have easily happened to me too (but didn't). My tongue really
swelled up after the piercing and didn't really go down until over a
week later. (I can't stand reading posts from people who only went through
2 to 3 days of swelling, or who could eat solid food after a day.)
The top ball was pulled into my tongue after a day or two due to the
large amount of swelling (plus possibly my playing with it too roughly).
Before the hole healed, I pushed it back out again. Method: stick out
tongue as much as possible, place index and middle fingers on top of
tongue, one on either side of the hole, place thumb under bottom ball,
and *push*. Top ball should stretch the hole (yes, it hurts!), then pop
out.
To stop the top ball from embedding itself into my tongue again, I folded
up a piece of surgical gauze and stuffed it under my tongue. It filled up
the space there, pressing the bottom ball right up against the undersurface
of my tongue (and hence keeping the top ball completely clear off the
top surface, allowing the hole to close to just the diameter of the barbell
shaft.
Having to walk around all day with a wad of gauze stuffed unconfortably
under my tongue only added to the misery I was going through what with
the pain, the inability to speak properly, and the inability to eat
solid food. Naturally, I took it out when I wanted to speak or eat some
liquifood, but most of the time, I wasn't doing either, so it stayed in
there most of the time. (Not the same piece of gauze; I would replace it
with a fresh one halfway through the day.) I put up with it because the
prospect of having the hole heal with the top ball inside my tongue was
even less appealing.
Kept this up for about 2.5 days, then took out the gauze and waited to
see what would happen. Nothing did. Apparently, the hole had closed
enough, and the swelling had gone down sufficiently, that the top ball
was no longer in danger of getting pulled into my tongue. The remainder
of the healing process (about another week) went as normal. I've not
had any problems with my tongue piercing since then.
Hope this was useful, or at least interesting.
Rev. Drew
: blck...@magi.com (Roger Monahan) writes:
: >BTW We have a client who got his piercing out west (location shall remain
: >nameless) with a 14g bb and 4mm balls. Top ball was pulled into his tongue
: >(too short with major swelling) and the piercing healed around it. He now has
: >a barbell sticking out of the bottom of his tongue, with no hole through the
: >top.
: The top ball was pulled into my tongue after a day or two due to the
: large amount of swelling (plus possibly my playing with it too roughly).
: Before the hole healed, I pushed it back out again. Method: stick out
: tongue as much as possible, place index and middle fingers on top of
: tongue, one on either side of the hole, place thumb under bottom ball,
: and *push*. Top ball should stretch the hole (yes, it hurts!), then pop
: out.
I think I will print out these posts to show to clients who say why do i need
something THAT big when I pull out a 7/8" barbell for them...
The inital barbell for your tongue should be TWICE as long as your unpierced
tongue at rest. Don't let someone who hasnt measured your tongue (even eyeballing
it, as eyeballing CAN work for experienced piercers) come near your tongue with
too short a barbell.
--
Rev. Drew Perforations Piercing Studio
perf...@access.digex.net 900 M St., N.W. Washington, D.C.
http://www.access.digex.net/~perforat (202) 289-8863
Andrew Herbert
< Hi! Im new to this, and forgot I had subscribed, but was very happy
<I had when I caught up on the postings. I'm sure you've gotten this
<question a thousand times, but what is the best advice on tongue
<piercing? Im dying to get it done, but want to be safr about it. Also,
<I can only wear gold in my ears ( so I dont wear earrings) and I dont
<want a gold barbell. What material is non-allergenic?
< Any advice at all would be much appreciated :)
< Thanks,
< Justine (Pixydustr)
<
To be safe go to one of the recommended piercers in the FAQ's. They'll use
proper surgical steel bar's that won't cause any adverse reaction for you.
Oh and don't do it the dat=y bbefore your due to make a big sales pitch.
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