Any piercers there to advise, earlobes still not healed after a year! Frustrating

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Had them done with a needle at proper studio.
Titanium studs only for the whole time. Tried silver after 5 months for two day, but they hadn't healed completel by then. Took silver out went back to the ones used to pierce thinking keep going.
Only ever used tea tree sparingly to cleanse with cotton bud at start and the proper salt with cooled boiled water.
It's a year and still sore.
What to do?!! Take them out and forget it? Pop something else in with a normal butterfly back. Thanks in advance
This is DD 17 not me.

I read on a local piercer's website that they recommend soaking a piercing in warm saline solution as this will draw out any gunk from inside the piercing, not just surface cleaning if you see what I mean. Wondered if that might help but can totally understand that her lobe shape might make this difficult.

Yes that's good advice, we'll have a go, tho not sure how often to clean it now. Does she go back to the beginning and bathe each day. Or leave longer.
In the interest of anyone searching for how to heal a piercing I'll update now and again.

My piercer recommended soaking a camomile teabag in salted water and then holding it over the piercing for a few minutes night and morning. This worked much better on my helix than previous attempts with salted water alone or with teatree oil.

Surgical spirit is brilliant. That's what I use.

Not a piercer but my last ear piercings took well over a year to heal - more like 18months. One I was adamant I'd have to take out as it looked awful - like a huge blood blister but I persevered and they're absolutely fine now (2 years on). I bought kelocote when I was worried about the one however couldn't tell you if it worked or if my ears just eventually sorted themselves out though. Keep going and good luck!

You waited very patiently, thanks for your reply.
Isn't it strange how some bodies are just adamant they are not going to have a foreign body in them thankyou very much.
The Pro stuff has arrived, we'll see.
Have ordered some plain 9ct studs, although has silver ones in for time being.
Can't be any worse than the titanium ones that never healed. Fingers crossed.

Hi
Did you ever solve this issue? My daughter had her ears pierced 1 year ago and they are still sore, crusty, gunky. I don't know what to try.
Thanks x

This was me 30 years ago. Nothing worked so I let them heal up. Follow-on as I'd like to try again!

Mine were never happy, until I got some surgical steel studs - they were gold-coloured, from Amazon at about £10 for eight, and people kept saying they looked expensive 😆 I replaced them with solid 9ct gold studs several years ago; they've been in my ears ever since with zero issues.

Cetrimide is the antiseptic of choice for skin. You can ask a pharmacist to make up a 1% solution or buy something like Boots Wound Wash.

Real gold, not plated. Gold can cure.

And they should be gold rings ( simple circles) so you can turn them.