Miss my frenum already…

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Tuesday July 8th, 2008 @ 5:45 PM

Filed under: Male Genital

Had to pull it yesterday due to migration/rejection. It had moved over 3mm towards the surface. Woke up this morning and it looks like the holes already healed shut.

I want to redo it further down, but I really think it was the metal that caused the rejection.

Will it be alright to pierce it and use the PTFE from the beginning? Or should I try the titanium instead?

I would like to encourage everyone to take a brief moment of silence and join me in acknowledging our fellow enthusiast’s loss of his frenum piercing…*tick* *tick* *tick*. We feel your pain, brother.

Back to business…It’s possible the metal you were wearing contributed to migration. However, having done hundreds of frenum piercings with stainless steel jewelry, and with most of them healing successfully, I wouldn’t personally jump to the conclusion that it was the metal. Now, if you were wearing a sub-standard piece of jewelry of questionable material and quality, that could certainly contribute to rejection.

Keep in mind however, that frenum piercings do reject, not uncommonly. You are putting a piece of jewelry in a mostly-flat piece of tissue. Even if there is a well-defined fold along the frenum line, that tissue is still actually flat. Add to that the pressure that can get exerted on the piercing when you have an erection…and wah la…rejection sometimes happen. If the piercing wasn’t placed well/ideally, that can be another contributing factor. Unless you were pierced with a very large gauge, the weight of the jewelry shouldn’t have been an issue.

If it would make you more comfortable to have your piercing re-done with a PTFE piece of jewelry, I really don’t see a problem with that. I would probably encourage titanim over PTFE, but that’s mostly a personal preference. They should both work great in terms of biocompatibiltiy.

Best of luck if you decide to give it another go.

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