Please Help!!I had my scaffolding pierced 3 days ago! And it bled alot during it being pierced so much I passed out! It was all good and then today it like really sore, red and swollen around the bottom hole ! I have used sergical spirit, vasaline and salt water solution on it but like it's very hard ! :(
That's weird. If you can't move it, other than when you're cleaning it, then maybe you should go to your piercer. I've had mine done for about 3 months, and nothing like that ever happened to me. If you can..take out your industrial bar and but put in 2 stainless steel or glass cartilage hoops or studs and see how that works. Sometimes, people that have really thick cartilage and get a piercing, the cartilage will just try to overgrow the hole that was made. It could just be a minor infection, and you may have to take it out, but it'd be better than anything else happening to your ear. Hope I helped and good luck!
If it has been good since getting it pierced, my guess would be that it got snagged on a pillowcase or something. Cartilage piercings of any kind tend to be sore for a while. Make sure you continue to keep it clean, and if it's not improving, it might be worth taking a trip to the piercer and getting his advice on what to do. Red and swollen is difficult to diagnose without seeing exactly what you mean. For future reference, you should try to eat something before getting something pierced or passing out is more likely. Also, some people are just bleeders, but alcohol in the few days before a piercing does thin out the blood and makes the bleeding more severe.
