Serious nape infection? please help

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Sunday July 27th, 2008 @ 9:54 PM

Filed under: Surface/Unusual

I have had my nape done for 2 years now. It was done at Art In Soul 2 in New Paltz New York with a ptfe bar about an inch long between the balls.

About 4 weeks ago a bump started to develop under the left side of the bar that was about an inch to 1 & 1/2 inches long. It felt like a cyst and when i applied pressure with a hot cloth puss came out. This lasted until about 5 days ago when i started using h2ocean religiously. Now the bump has shrank down and is just right around the bar, with the biggest part right under the opening.

There is no redness and i have wanted to take it out for a while now but could this be a very harmful infection? My doctor is completely against piercings and knows nothing about them and the closest piercing place who does surface piercings is 2 hours away(where i got this) If I could take it out myself and just do salt soaks until it heals that would be ideal but i’d much rather be safe.

Thank you so much.

I really hope i hear from you.

Ideally what you should do is continue doing the hot cloth compresses, you can do it either dry or even soaked in a salt water solution. Compress the area until the cloth is no longer hot/warm and is on the cool side.

Also it would be wise not to try and remove the jewelry yourself, as if there IS a problem, you do not want to trap the problem by taking the jewelry out and letting it close up.

Your best bet is to just go and visit the piercing studio that’s 2 hours away and have them look at it. Because the reality is 2 hours travel is nothing compared to your health and wellbeing.

So just find some time to visit the studio and have then inspect the piercing and see what they have to say. If it needs to be removed you can at least have someone doing it who’s qualified to do it and maybe other troubleshooting situations that might need to be done.

To me it doesn’t sound like an infection problem, more so a drainage issue, that requires hot compresses to help the pathway probably drain out of the piercing. But without seeing it no real answer can be given on that subject matter.

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