Injured tongue web…
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Thursday February 19th, 2009 @ 9:00 PM
Filed under: Tongue
A little bit embarrassing, but anyways.
I’ve had my tongue pierced for nearly 3 years now. My tongue web comes forward quite a bit, so it was pierced to the side.
A few days ago, I was kissing someone, and lets say something got stuck, or pulled, or bitten, I dont know, but it seriously hurt. I took out the barbell, and it was bleeding a little. I put it back in and thought nothing of it, just maybe it got a little torn, as nothing looked wrong. So today, (4 days later) and still in the same amount of pain, I gave it a closer examination, and discovered that the bottom ball of the barbell, has ripped a hole through my tongue web, and it can half stick through there…
Am I going to have to retire my tongue piercing so this hole will heal up, as it is aggravating it?
(..that or put a ring in there and celebrate my new accidental piercing…)
Oww!
Well - a couple options: You could see a piercer and have them assess if your new hole could be filled with some jewelry.
-You could remove your barbell if it’s too much hassle and pain for you
-You could put a slightly larger ball on the bottom part of your barbell so that it doesn’t fit through the hole and gives it time to heal up.
The good news is that oral tissue heals up pretty quickly so whichever option you choose you likely won’t be in as much discomfort for much longer.
In the meantime, be sure to keep your mouth clean and drink lots of water. Basically treat it like a new piercing should be.
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2 Responses to “Injured tongue web…”
Thanks for all the advice, in the end I decided to take it out. However I AM an idiot, and went out on friday night, and probably didnt treat it as well as one should a new piercing…
sb on February 22nd, 2009 at 8:39 amThere was a kind of a little white lump it today, and it broke.. so now I have a smaller tongue web, but I learned my lesson. Hopefully it’ll clear itself up soon.
This week its getting proper care.
the same situation basically happend to me but my tonuge ring was bit out — nothing happend to the hole but my web complelty ripped off — i love my tongue ring and i want to put it in as soon as possible — im in a lot of pain though but is anything bad going to happen if i put it back in before my web heals??
izzi on July 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 amLeave a Comment