Earlobe piercings not healing at all.

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Hi all, I had my earlobes pierced a very long time ago and a couple of years ago, I stopped wearing earrings, I wanted to start wearing them again, but ended up having to get them re pierced. Now, I live in a very small town and the only place that could do my ears was a small salon with a gun - I know, I know. I suffer with fibromyalgia and cannot travel at all, so this was very handy for me.

Well, the piercings were healing great, I had studs in and after 8 weeks I changed them to silver hoops and there is problem after problem now, one or more is usually bleeding, there's a purple mark beside the back of my top piercing and now and again some hurt really badly.

What can I do? Going to a legit piercer is out of the question, should I just take them out, is my poor immune system to blame for them not healing? Oh and they were re pierced on May 22nd this year.

Obviously you already know the salon was a mistake.

Get something titanium and get studs, not hoops. Clean them everyday and see how they go. Are they pussing at all?

You probably have a metal allergy. You need to wear surgical stainless steel earrings. I can't wear silver earrings at all because nearly all of them have nickel in them and my ears go insane.

Thanks for the advice guys, appreciate it.

Try doing a saline soak 2-3 times a day. Fill a shot glass with sea salt and cooled boiled water and soak your earlobe in it. The solution should taste about as salty as tears.

• Ditch the hoops in favour of studs. They might be causing irritation by moving (or dragging bacteria in the hole if they are seamless ones)

• Get (implant grade) titanium jewellery (or 14k gold). Many people react to silver and it's too soft.

• Make a saline solution and soak your lobes twice a day. Don't make the solution too strong as you don't want to make the irritation worse.

• Once you've changed the earrings, be careful not to touch, pick or cause any other trauma (eg my getting hair stuck, getting clothing stuck etc).

I'll try and get some titanium studs, will need 3 pairs. I looked on Amazon and Ebay but they show earrings that are mixed metal, even when you put in titanium.

You shouldn't have changed them so quickly - and cheap metal is terrible for piercing healing.

Saline soaks twice a day and, whether you like it or not, you need to get yourself to a proper piercing place where they will change your jewellery from cheap shit to titanium that's been autoclaved/sterilised. If you refuse to do that, you might as well take them out, keep bathing them and hope for the best.