Talk to me about ear piercing issues please

[Cecillie]

Adult dd had her ears pierced, lobes and first piercing, two months ago.
She did everything they told her to do but now they still hurt for hours after she changes the ear rings, which she has to do as still bleeding a bit so they need cleaning.
Anything we can do to improve things ?
She is stressing about it to point of just taking ear rings out and letting holes seal over, which seems a shame having waited 20 odd years to do it !

Put good quality ones in (I have titanium hoops)
Leave them in and don't touch or fiddle with them, just leave them to heal
Changing/fiddling basically keeps reopening the wound, it's like picking a scab

I agree with the patience advice - took 4m to change a cartilage piercing recently, my third lobes were a really long time, at least you can get pretty jewellery (although basic) to start with.

Mine took forever, the studs were awful to sleep on. I took them out after about 5 months and swapped for small silver hoops, so much more comfortable. I cleaned with a cotton bud and special ear alcohol stuff from pharmacy

NOT hoops. Too much likely movement while they’re still healing.

Sorry didn’t see @nzeire - hoops are fine once healed but they really need to be properly healed before hoops go in.

@Sunshineandrainbow

Some things that helped DD were sea salt rinses. BPA piercing aftercare drops and Prontolind spray both from amazon. The BPA was amazing and reversed a keloid bump on her helix piercing.

She didn't have a keloid.

Sorry but we need to dispel this usage of the word keloid for granulomas and bumps on piercings. They are completely different. A keloid is a very specific scar that doesn't go away without surgery. A granuloma or hypertrophic scar is what most people get.

Omg why is she taking them out to clean them?! She's setting the healing back every time !

Please get her to stop doing that...

When they say 'clean your piercing' they mean with the jewellery in situ 🙈

And yes op. 12 weeks standard healing. No removing the jewellery at all in that situation and don't twist it. Clean it with cool boiled water and seasalt.