Nose piercing not healing after six weeks, would changing to hoop help?

[Loumummy2024]

Hi, I had my nose done 6 weeks ago. I have a stud however I keep catching it so it is never healing. I’ve now got a lump on it and it has been bleeding once again.
i need some advice, I’ve heard that a hoop will be less hassle and won’t catch as much. Does anyone think now that I’ve already got a lump if I change it over to a hoop it will be ok? I just feel like while I have this stud in it’s never going to heal, with it catching all the time.

See the piercer again. Don't try and change it yourself.

No, a hoop is not suitable for a healing piercing.

Your stud is enormous though, get it swapped out for something physically smaller on the nose and shorter in length so it's closer fitting and you'll catch it less.

100% this. Do go back to the original piercing studio. The post looks too long.

I’m sorry to say, nose piercings just don’t work out for some people. I had mine done on both sides, three times in all and it just would not heal. It was like my body was determined to reject it no matter what I did.
I’ve known a number of people who have had this experience over the years.
The only reason I’m telling you is because I wish someone had told me. It could have saved me at least a bit of the weeks and weeks of discomfort and the scars I now have. Probably not though because I was so determined on keeping the piercing in.
I think some people are just very sensitive to facial piercings. Especially people with reactive/ sensitive skin generally. I also had a lip piercing that never really settled down. It used to get inflamed on and off and develop a lump around it. It left a keloid scar behind it when I took it out eventually.

We used tea tree oil on my daughters
nose and that cleared it right up.

Could you be allergic to the stud. My DD can only wear the surgical steel/titanium and gold.

coming to echo previous comments, that stud is far too big for it to heal easily! Please to back to the piercer. I had mine done two years ago, you want quite a short one with like the curly c shape at the end that goes inside your nose?

Don’t fiddle with it either, and use salt water on it twice a day. Mine took a long time to heal, and I put a hoop in before it had healed enough, I had to go back to a stud for a good few months. Now I just have a thin hoop that stays in all the time. Even now two years on if I was to take it out it would close up in an hour 😂
Do go back though and change the stud 100% xx

It’s interesting how we all heal differently and different parts of us react differently too. My nose healed almost immediately no trouble at all. But my naval piercing just would not work out. My body rejected it twice.

It is interesting.

Sometimes people don’t account for the fact that there are anatomical differences between individuals that make a difference to how a particular type of piercing works.

My aunt got her nose pierced and it healed fine but because of the angle, every time she smiled or laughed it popped out 😅

I went with my friend to get helix piercings done. She got hers but I couldn’t. Apparently the cartillage in my ear is much thicker than average 😬

Common problems with healing include poor quality metals used in the jewellery, use of a gun instead of a needle, poor placement, tight butterflies (which is why flatback labrets are much better), poor cleaning, use of inappropriate cleaning chemicals and so on....

Too large jewellery will always make a piercing difficult to heal as it'll slide around the place and be prone to being caught and the fistula will be damaged.

Lots of people seem to react to common metals, so sticking to proper gold (not gold plating) and implant grades titanium are safer for most people.

Poor placement is also a problem because people end up with wonky angles either because of bad practice or migrating jewellery (because it's inappropriate, placed to shallow or a host of other reasons).

Piercing healing is rarely a simple time line through from punching a hole to the fistula forming to it being totally healed..... I evicted two cartilage piercings last year on the basis that life is too short to piss about with unhappy cartilage for months at a time!