I know it's soon, but my piercings swollen and quite sore when knocked slightly.I've only had it three or four days, but there's a swollen round lump right next to one pierced hole and I was worried it could be an early sign of a keloid. But I don't know if it's too soon to tell yet.I know they can take up to 6 months to heal, if not more, but I'm kinda paranoid about it.I've rinsed it after showering, used salt water on it every day and apart from that just washed it with water on a cotton bud.Any advice?
1. go and see the piercer... 2. go to a doctor 3. kepp doing what your doing
Your body has to adjusting and trying to heal. It'll be sore and swollen for a bit. Try not to jerk it around anything. If you don't see the swelling starting to go down and/or the soreness increases I'd have a doctor check it out.
I had my industrial for 13 months and it never healed. I decided to retire it and the piercing sites closed up within 6 hours. Seriously, my advice to you is to just take it out. They are wayyyy more trouble than they are worth.
It sounds like you have a infected piercing site. You need to get a doctor to look at this as there might be a problem. Are you sure that the equipment that was used to pierce your ears were completely clean? If not, you might have an infection from it. Hope that this helps:)
The soreness and swelling is normal. Try to really be careful about not knocking it. You're only going to get a keloid if you are prone to them, if you've never had a keloid you likely won't get it. It's hypertrophic scarring that is pretty common with industrial piercings which is why taking care of the piercing is really well. If you're using regular salt then that is a problem - it needs to be non-iodized sea salt. Soak the piercing twice a day for 5-10 minutes each soak with a mixture of 1/4th of a teaspoon of the sea salt to 8oz of hot water. Make sure you're not moving the bar around at all. Take ibuprofen and ice it for the swelling.
