One year and still not healed
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Sunday November 23rd, 2008 @ 5:12 PM
Filed under: Navel
I got a standard navel piercing on December 11, 2007. It was pierced absolutely perfectly. The initial jewelry was a 14g J-shaped barbell, which I am still wearing. My problem is that, after almost a year, it still hasn’t healed. It gets crusties, and bleeds whenever I have to take it out to clean the crusties off the barbell. There is no tenderness, redness, or evidence of rejection. Why hasn’t it healed, and what can I do to get it to heal?
Thanks!
Navel piercings can take a year, sometimes longer depending on the individual, to heal. I suspect that the continual removal of the jewellery to clean the piericng is irritating it and lengthening the healing time. If you are getting crusties then that is indicitive of not being fully healed therefore you should be leaving the jewellery in situ and continuing with your twice daily seasalt soaks. That is the best way to allow your piercing to heal.
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One Response to “One year and still not healed”
I’ve had my bottom navel pierced for close to 4 years. At no time in that 4 years have I taken out the ring to clean it. It’s fully unnecessary.
I also got crusties and ickies out of it for almost 3 years. It’s quite normal.
Like Tiff said, leave it the hell alone and do twice daily sea salt soaks.
Aggie on November 26th, 2008 at 1:03 pmLeave a Comment