Blowout :(
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Sunday October 14th, 2007 @ 1:55 AM
Filed under: Ear, Piercing
I haven’t stretched for a couple of months, but recently noticed what I assume is a blowout, a little flap poking out the back of my lobe.
I’ve read the encyclopedia entry but I think most of the tips there apply to fresh blow-outs, where this must be a few months old. What can I do?! I have downsized a couple of mms for now.
Can I also add that I feel like an idiot because I was always so proud to have healthy ears.
It is unfortunate, I’m sorry that this has occurred. With blow outs quite often it’s not a result of the last stretch you did, more so it’s a result of a couple stretches before that.
The best option to do with this situation is to take your jewelry out completely and give your lobes a good massages daily.
When the blow out disappears completely find a jewelry size that easily fits into the current size of the pathway, do not try to muscle larger sizes in, put a comfortable fitted size in. From there keep the jewelry in through-out the entire day, but take them out once or twice a day and give the lobes a good massage.
Also I’d advise to maintain your lobes at this comfortable size for at least 6 months to a year before trying to fit the next size in.
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7 Responses to “Blowout :(”
Isn’t the best option to keep the jewelerry and downsize?
chantale on October 16th, 2007 at 11:26 pmnope you need to not have ANY jewelry in your lobes and massage daily until the lobes downsize enough and the tissue is re-absorbed into the lobe.
Warren on October 17th, 2007 at 10:04 amExactly Warren. Leave the jewelry out until the tissue is completely reabsorbed. Massage them, and a few months later, you’ll be able to slowly bring yourself back up.
Jean-Pierre on October 18th, 2007 at 10:58 pmI’ve had this issue too on one of my lobes. A couple months after stretching, when I thought it was all healed, a lip formed on the back and wouldn’t go away. Thanks for this. Hopefully it can be remedied.
Isabel on October 23rd, 2007 at 6:29 pmI’ve always been curious, when people say to massage your lobes, what kind of pressure are we talking about? Is it just rubbing, or a good solid squeeze? I occasionally rub my (7/16th) lobes down with a wonderful cocoa butter/neem seed/Vitamin E/other stuff mix, and I generally squeeze enough that my fingers touch through the hole.
(hehe, I said finger the hole)
DIHTKDIN on October 24th, 2007 at 12:10 pmI know there are certain issues that have not been resolved but can you please bring back askbme/qod!?
I miss it, as I would imagine others do also.
I applaud your effort to keep the website going, it helps in some way to keep the community together for just a bit longer. If you can at all, normal updates would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
cfontucky on October 25th, 2007 at 5:11 amcfontucky: You’ll note that you’re writing this comment on AskBME, so there’s nothing to bring back.
The staff of AskBME endeavour to update regularly, but sometimes real life does get in the way - I’ve been in Thailand for the past few weeks and pretty much missed the entire roll-out of the new system!
As for the community, it’s alive and well, and main site updates are in the works as I write this.
Lori St.Leone on October 27th, 2007 at 9:26 pmLeave a Comment