when to stretch?

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Tuesday January 13th, 2009 @ 9:54 AM

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hey hey,

i have my ears at 4mm at the moment - had them stretched up to that size in one go at my local piercing place, with metal flares in. Thing is they seem to be taking quite a while to heal - had them for 2 months now and still getting pus forming, and if i take the tunnels out, there is some clear liquid on the inside of the flesholes. Is that normal? I’m guessing they’re not healed yet so I should probably wait til they are to stretch them up. I’ve heard a lot of people talking about flesholes forming ‘cheese’ but not the liquid I’m getting! I’ve also had a bit of blood in one which I’m guessing isn’t too good either…

Advice anyone?

Before I can answer this question, I need a little more information - when you say ‘in one go’ do you mean that you were pieced and then the piercer immendiately stretched them or if they were healed, what size did your piercer stretch them from?

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No, I had my ears pierced years ago when i was about 11 or something. When I had them stretched they went from a standard size for earrings up to 4mm in one go, using two different tapers (i’m guessing one up to 2mm, and then another up to 4mm).
Hope that helps!

xsilver-lilyx on January 13th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

When I first had my lobes done, I wasn’t very informed on piercing/stretching, and my piercer did them to 4mm in one go - I actually don’t really know how they did it at the time, I can only assume he pierced with a 3mm needle then tapered it straight up to 4 and put in a plug? Not the best idea I now know, but they actually healed very well and years later I have perfectly healthy lobes. If this or some variation of this is what you had done, I don’t recall any further bleeding after the day of the piercing, and they def weren’t oozing unusually after 2 months so you might want to go back to your piercer for a check up, and you def don’t want to stretch them right now!!! [I waited at least a year after above procedure before stretching up to 6mm]

Almaxaquotal on January 14th, 2009 at 6:07 am

There is the cause of your problem. I suggest you give this piercing studio a wide berth in future! From a standard ear piercing you should have been tapered to 1.6mm and then after six weeks or so, tapered up to 2mm. Then after the same amount of time or even longer - upto 2.4mm, then 3.2mm and finally 4mm. That is five stretches spread over a considerable amount of time.

What I suggest you do is to remove the jewellery completely, do twice-daily seasalt soaks until they stop crusting and allow them to settle down fully before finding a piercer who is competant and having them taper your ears from scratch, roughly following the protocol I have described.

You know, we fire alot of stick at kids who do this themselves considering there is an abundance of information at their disposal courtesy of the internet but what really distresses me is when so-called ‘professionals’ do this to unwitting, paying clients.

Tiff Badhairdo on January 14th, 2009 at 9:29 am

Yeah, I think you give a little TOO much stick to DIY’ers re stretching sometimes, because it doesn’t always have to go hideously wrong, but Tiff you are right that the pros should know better. I will add that the shop I mentioned above, I went in there when I was back in Australia a couple of months ago to just buy some barbells, and when I asked them if the jewelry they were selling was sterlised, I got a blank look and an answer of “we can give you an alcohol swab?”

So I probably just lucked out that my lobes healed as well as they did given the circumstances.

O_o

Almaxaquotal on January 14th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

There’s nothing wrong with stretching a fresh piercing as part of the procedure and also, when you buy jewellery from a studio it is rarely sterile as unless you are piercing yourself or swapping the jewellery in a healing piercing (neither of which is encouraged), it doesn’t need to be sterile. Clean, yes but sterile? Not necessary as it won’t be exposed to a wound.

Tiff Badhairdo on January 14th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

Almaxaquotal: The more appropriate answer for them should have been: “No, but for (inset small fee here) we can sterilize it for you. But that will take (insert time frame here)”

just curious…where in Australia was that?

Warren Hiller on January 15th, 2009 at 10:10 am

hey folks,
cheers very much for your responses. I’ve taken your advice, Tiff, and taken them out completely and am letting them heal. They actually started to look a lot better over the past couple of weeks - weren’t oozing anything perculiar and the outer edges were looking pretty healed. But I took them out to clean the other night and one in particular bled loads (for a fleshhole anyway), and when I pushed my earlobe gently from the back I could see tissue coming out! Which was a) gross and b) really worried me, as it sounds like what people describe as a blow-out (am I right?).

To be honest at the time I didn’t think stretching to 4mm in one go sounded very sensible but being a beginner I decided to trust the piercer knew more than me and knew what he was doing. I now know this was stupid and am perfectly happy to let my ears fully heal and stretch them properly, bit by bit as you suggest. If anything it’s made me realise just how much I want them stretched and going slow is only going to make me appreciate it more when they are the size I want Just a shame I’ve had to fuck my ears in the mean-time.

Just one more quick question - there’s a lot of conflicting advice on the net about stretching and it’s hard to know whats good advice and what isn’t. I’ve read that its good to regularly take your fleshholes out and give them a good clean e.g. with soap and warm water. Is this true?

xsilver-lilyx on January 29th, 2009 at 7:39 am

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No, I had my ears pierced years ago when i was about 11 or something. When I had them stretched they went from a standard size for earrings up to 4mm in one go, using two different tapers (i’m guessing one up to 2mm, and then another up to 4mm).
Hope that helps!
xsilver-lilyx on January 13th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
When I first had my lobes done, I wasn’t very informed on piercing/stretching, and my piercer did them to 4mm in one go - I actually don’t really know how they did it at the time, I can only assume he pierced with a 3mm needle then tapered it straight up to 4 and put in a plug? Not the best idea I now know, but they actually healed very well and years later I have perfectly healthy lobes. If this or some variation of this is what you had done, I don’t recall any further bleeding after the day of the piercing, and they def weren’t oozing unusually after 2 months so you might want to go back to your piercer for a check up, and you def don’t want to stretch them right now!!! [I waited at least a year after above procedure before stretching up to 6mm]
Almaxaquotal on January 14th, 2009 at 6:07 am
There is the cause of your problem. I suggest you give this piercing studio a wide berth in future! From a standard ear piercing you should have been tapered to 1.6mm and then after six weeks or so, tapered up to 2mm. Then after the same amount of time or even longer - upto 2.4mm, then 3.2mm and finally 4mm. That is five stretches spread over a considerable amount of time.

What I suggest you do is to remove the jewellery completely, do twice-daily seasalt soaks until they stop crusting and allow them to settle down fully before finding a piercer who is competant and having them taper your ears from scratch, roughly following the protocol I have described.

You know, we fire alot of stick at kids who do this themselves considering there is an abundance of information at their disposal courtesy of the internet but what really distresses me is when so-called ‘professionals’ do this to unwitting, paying clients.
Tiff Badhairdo on January 14th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Yeah, I think you give a little TOO much stick to DIY’ers re stretching sometimes, because it doesn’t always have to go hideously wrong, but Tiff you are right that the pros should know better. I will add that the shop I mentioned above, I went in there when I was back in Australia a couple of months ago to just buy some barbells, and when I asked them if the jewelry they were selling was sterlised, I got a blank look and an answer of “we can give you an alcohol swab?”

So I probably just lucked out that my lobes healed as well as they did given the circumstances.

O_o
Almaxaquotal on January 14th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
There’s nothing wrong with stretching a fresh piercing as part of the procedure and also, when you buy jewellery from a studio it is rarely sterile as unless you are piercing yourself or swapping the jewellery in a healing piercing (neither of which is encouraged), it doesn’t need to be sterile. Clean, yes but sterile? Not necessary as it won’t be exposed to a wound.
Tiff Badhairdo on January 14th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Almaxaquotal: The more appropriate answer for them should have been: “No, but for (inset small fee here) we can sterilize it for you. But that will take (insert time frame here)”

just curious…where in Australia was that?
Warren Hiller on January 15th, 2009 at 10:10 am
hey folks,
cheers very much for your responses. I’ve taken your advice, Tiff, and taken them out completely and am letting them heal. They actually started to look a lot better over the past couple of weeks - weren’t oozing anything perculiar and the outer edges were looking pretty healed. But I took them out to clean the other night and one in particular bled loads (for a fleshhole anyway), and when I pushed my earlobe gently from the back I could see tissue coming out! Which was a) gross and b) really worried me, as it sounds like what people describe as a blow-out (am I right?).

To be honest at the time I didn’t think stretching to 4mm in one go sounded very sensible but being a beginner I decided to trust the piercer knew more than me and knew what he was doing. I now know this was stupid and am perfectly happy to let my ears fully heal and stretch them properly, bit by bit as you suggest. If anything it’s made me realise just how much I want them stretched and going slow is only going to make me appreciate it more when they are the size I want Just a shame I’ve had to fuck my ears in the mean-time.

Just one more quick question - there’s a lot of conflicting advice on the net about stretching and it’s hard to know whats good advice and what isn’t. I’ve read that its good to regularly take your fleshholes out and give them a good clean e.g. with soap and warm water. Is this true?
xsilver-lilyx on January 29th, 2009 at 7:39 am

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