Piercings...?

[Kelda]

Wow, those do sound unusual... and both sound like they must have been pretty painful!

Apparently relatively painless and no worse than your ear... She has many tats and piercings (inclusing a full back tatto of dragon wings) though so not sure you can use her as a pain barometer!!

[oilgun]

Ewwww!

I clean my earlobe out, use rubbing alcohol on it, and occasionally put Neosporin on it when I wear an earing, to keep infections at bay.

Speaking of Ewww!  I over-stretched an ear piercing once and it became more and more painful.   Then a huge throbbing blood blister formed behind my earlobe. When it finally burst, I was buying a dvd at HMV.  Blood was dripping on to my shoulder like a faucet. The clerk almost fainted or hurled, it was hard to tell. It was most embarrassing but at least the pain was gone.

[Lynne]

Speaking of Ewww!  I over-stretched an ear piercing once and it became more and more painful.   Then a huge throbbing blood blister formed behind my earlobe. When it finally burst, I was buying a dvd at HMV.  Blood was dripping on to my shoulder like a faucet. The clerk almost fainted or hurled, it was hard to tell. It was most embarrassing but at least the pain was gone.

It causes me deep grief to even type this, but if the stories in this thread are any indication, we've got ourselves the makings of a Reality TV show!