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Help with my eyebrow piercing - 10/23/2004 4:01:22 PM

siamsa24

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I have had my eyebrow pierced for almost a year and a half, changed the piercing ring with a smaller captive ring about a year ago. The ring is made of a metal that's specifically for sensitive skin, I'm not sure what it is, it's been a year

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Here's the question (or problem, rather), I am starting to get painful swelling just below the bottom hole. This has never happened before. I am getting a hard lump there, it's red and sensative to the touch. I have tried everything I can think of, I clean it regularly anyway, but I have started cleaning it more often, have tried Bactine and salt water.
Has anyone ever had this happen before? What can I do to get rid of it? Normally I would just wait it out, but it's getting pretty painful.

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RE: Help with my eyebrow piercing - 10/23/2004 4:24:44 PM

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hi

try neosporin, it has antibiotics in it. good luck hope it feels better

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RE: Help with my eyebrow piercing - 10/23/2004 4:56:38 PM

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I thought about that, but I've heard that using an antibiotic ointment on a piercing causes the piercing to close onto the jewelry. Does anyone know if that's true or if it's just a myth?

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RE: Help with my eyebrow piercing - 10/23/2004 5:08:29 PM

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I have never heard that neosporin would cause that, I am not really sure how that could happen.

I am a neosporin junkie, I use it on everything, carry it around with me and have a tube hidden somewhere in just about every room of the house. I don't have any piercings other than ears but I have had the same type of situation occur in my ear cartlidge piercing. I took the earring out and discovered that over time, (about a year or year and a half) the outercoating on the earring had worn away and whatever the metal that was underneath it was causing the irritation. I cleaned out the piercing with saltwater a few times a day for 3 or 4 days, bought a new earring, which I coated with neosporin each time I put it in. In about a week all was well. Now I check the earring for damage every few weeks.

I hope this helps.

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RE: Help with my eyebrow piercing - 10/23/2004 5:42:12 PM

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I thought about that, but I've heard that using an antibiotic ointment on a piercing causes the piercing to close onto the jewelry. Does anyone know if that's true or if it's just a myth?

Never had that problem. I've been told it can hasten the closing of peircings without jewlery, but it's a -great- lubricant for jewelry in peircings. Stick a blob on the ring and rotate it thru the peircing. Made my nipple peircings happy.

I'd honestly go and talk to your peircer and ask him/her what he/she things.

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RE: Help with my eyebrow piercing - 10/23/2004 6:37:20 PM

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Thank you, I think I'll do that.
Of course whenever I go see my piercer I have to resist getting a new piercing. My Dom said absolutly nothing more, hopefully I can obey

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RE: Help with my eyebrow piercing - 10/25/2004 1:16:34 PM

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yeah, the best think you can do it talk to a piercer. specially because that one has a tendancy to work it's way out. You make have to go back to the larger ring.

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