Sternum piercing

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Sunday January 13th, 2008 @ 3:01 PM

Filed under: Surface/Unusual

I got my sternum pierced around 4 months ago with a 1 inch implant grade bar. It seems to be healing relatively nice, except for one thing. Unless I’m bending backwards the bottom pops out of the hole. I can see the skin has thinned out a bit on the bottom hole. Is there anything I can do to prevent it from fully healing with the bottom sticking out?

Based upon what you’ve described, it’s quite possible the piercing is start to migrate or reject. I’m assuming you had the piercing done with a surface bar. For that type of jewelry to work appropriately, it has to fit in the piercing perfectly. If one side of the surface bar is constantly “out”, it starts to become no different than putting a straight barbell in a surface piercing…which is not good.

You could try downsizing the overall length of the surface bar. In some cases this will help stop the rejection. However, it’s not uncommon for surface piercings to continue rejecting once they start, even with a change of jewelry.

Without being able to see the piercing, this is the best advice I can provide. Best of luck.

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