I did a six month piercing apprenticeship while I was over in England. What happened to you is called "embedding". It is exactly why we suggest that people go to a piercing studio to get their ears pierced instead of getting them pierced with a piercing gun. We fixed a lot of ears where this exact same thing happened! Granted, most of those weren't even due to an allergy.
+Laura Ghan For my second earlobe hole on my left ear and both my helix piercings I went to a tattoo shop and got them pierced with a needle. It makes me cringe when I hear about people getting cartilage pierced with a gun, so dangerous! If I ever wanted anything else pierced, even another lobe piercing, I'd go to a tattoo shop and have it done with a needle, much better.
+Molly Burke I completely agree with that. I also think it hurts less with a needle than with a gun. My advice to everyone is to find a piercer that you are comfortable with and stick with them!
Piercing guns aren't as clean/sanitary as a needle. They reuse guns and they can't be propery cleaned. So safest i would recommend is getting piercing done with a needle at a proper tattoo shop.
Only one trip to a plastic surgeon so far, and that was to get my upper lip stitched because my regular doctor didn't want me to have a bad scar (nice of her!). Coworkers took me out to lunch for my birthday, and getting out of the car, I had my head down because it had started to rain, and I hit my my upper lip on the car door as I was getting out. Ouch, but I went to lunch! During lunch one of the guys says, "Your lip is bleeding!" How unappetizing for them! Getting stitches in that area between your nose and your lip hurts like heck! Anyway, unless I am in an accident, or something, no more plastic surgery for me! I love your story time!
Same thing happened to me with one earring back in 6th grade after having my ears pierced for 4 years! Almost got to the point where I could barely get the front of the earring out as well
I have found that I can't wear my earrings for more than two days in a row for more than once or twice a month. I have now started to start to wear other ear ornaments and only wear earrings enough to keep them from closing up so that if I do find earrings that I can wear that I don't have to get them re pierced.
I had a similar reaction when I was younger. Turns out I am allergic to nickel. I've also had an earring back embedded in my earlobe. Luckily, I found it after picking at a scab behind my ear. I am terrible at picking at my infections and such. But unlike you, I have NEVER tried to get my ears repierced and I kind of regret that. However, I'm a tomboy so I don't really care if I'm not wearing jewelry. Plus, growing up it wasn't common to see hypoallergenic jewelry until later on in life. And my family didn't have enough money to buy more expensive jewelry for me.
I know this is an older video but I just saw it and was having Deja vu! I got my ears pierced when I was 8 too and one got infected. To make it worse, my brother (who was a horrible bully to me) would punch me in my infected ear. I remember going to the doctor and my parents squeezing on them and using hydrogen peroxide. Fortunately it cleared up and I still have the piercings (I’m in my 50’s now).
So I have a double helix and a double tragus piercing and had the same exact issue with not being able to get them out with a MRI. I did however eventually figure out how to get them out (like to change my earrings) & it's pretty easy once you know how to. Sometimes it can just be the earring that's stubborn though as well. Or go to a tattoo piercing parlor and they can use a clamp to easily get them out if you ever want to change earrings. I'm highly allergic to nickel metal so I can't wear that or cheap jewelry that turns green easily. My skin is super sensitive! As always I loved your story time and I'm so glad you got that ear infection problem solved!! How crazy! Love you Molly! Love your videos so much!! Much love and many blessings to you! Muah! 💗❣️🥰💓🙏🏻😇
I've had my ears pierced twice, (once when I was seven and once when I was nine) but both times they got infected. I've just decided not to get my ears pierced again.
That's so wired I'm allergic to all jewlery except sterling silver, I can only wear sterling silver. And my earlobes have two bumpy purple scars tissues on each ear from having my ears pierced and not wearing the right kind of jewelry and I haven't been able to get them to go away my mom used to try to stick sewing needles in them thinking they would just pop but only one went down but on the backs of my ear lobes the scar tissue is a lot bigger
I use to leave my earrings on for a long time non stop and my ear lobes half covered the backs of them. I managed to get them out which hurt a lot and I ended up passing out. Needless to say I take them out when I’m sleeping and so far it seems to be working fine.
I got my ears pierced at 3 months. So I don’t remember it and just last week I got them pierced for a second time. I have not gotten any infection yet. And I hope it stays the way. 🤞🏼🤞🏼
I had a similar thing happen to me when I was young. I was afraid of my new earrings falling out and so I squeezed the backs on tighter than you should, and one of the backs got swallowed up by my ear lobe. I didn’t notice the back was “gone” until a few days later and apparently that’s all the time it needed to get fully stuck in there and for the whole to close up around it. We didn’t realize that’s what happened though until my mom went to put on the new earring back and she said my love felt hard. So we went to my pediatrician and no one there could be sure that that’s what it was in there, and they didn’t want to cut my ear for no reason so my doc wanted to do an X-ray. My mom didn’t like that idea, so my doc suggested instead of a whole head X-ray to go to my dentist and use the tiny little tooth X-ray equipment so that less of me was exposed to the radiation (not sure that’s how it works but it made my mom feel better sooo). We went to the dentist and he did the X-ray and confirmed it was in there for us. Then we were going to go back to my pediatrician to get it out but the dentist was like “hey wait I have all the tiny tools and numbing stuff, I’ll just do it!” So he did! He said he wrote it down in his weird stuff journal cause apparently that’s not the first time something like this happened, he said he got a tiny nail out of someone’s leg one time or something too and other similar small under the skin things that patients tell him about while getting a tooth cleaning.
I always love your story time videos. Thank you Molly for this video. Hopefully a conversation was started about how unsafe piercing guns areI I know I’m watching this late, but maybe another late watcher will watch this and read my comment and learn something! I know it’s not basic knowledge except for people that are use to getting piercings, maybe those who get tattoos, those who work in the industry and those (like me) who went through piercing school (but who became disabled and can’t work in the industry), but you’re not supposed to get you’re ears pierced with a gun. Sure for a lot of people it works out, but for people, like you, it doesn’t. Piercing guns can’t be properly cleaned. Only the metal part is cleaned with an antiseptic wipe and the plastic bit can carry germs and bacteria which can transfer when getting the piercing causing infections. Piercing needles are single use and are cleaned in an autoclave (a special sterilizing machine). You can’t line the piercings up perfectly because 1: it’s hard to eye them if you’re not properly trained and 2: the gun moves with the force of the piercing. With a needle the only way it moved from the dot is if the person’s hand shakes, but normally by using the right size clamps you hit the spot right every time! I don’t work in the industry so I’m not telling people about this daily and I went to piercing school 11 years ago and my binder is a state away at home, but here’s a great article that explains why getting your ears pierced with a gun is so bad and why it’s even worse to get cartilage piercings. www.google.com/amp/s/www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/anti-aging/amp35208/piercing-guns-bad-dangers/ if you can, for your sake please always go to a body piercer and as it explains in the article it hurts less to use the needle than a blunt earring. If you are worried about jewelry, let me tell you that there’s so many beautiful jewelry options! Way more options then when I started getting piercings when I was 17, twelve years ago.
I had that happen to me when I was 10. It was only 1 backing in my right ear. My Nana did it herself with a needle, a knife, and tweezers. She put ice on my ear to numb it first, but I still felt most of it.
I have a weird hard lump that migrates around my ear, but it is definitely not an earring back. Full story below if you are interested. I got my ears pierced sometime in early grade school, but then I stopped wearing earrings in middle school because I was in theater and could not wear them on stage, and I was too lazy to keep taking them in and out. Towards the end of high school, I found some really pretty earrings and wanted to try wearing them. The holes in my ears never closed up, so I could just insert the earrings, but after a day or two my ears were just really angry and sore so I took the earrings out again. Shortly after that, I could feel a hard lump in my ear near the piercing site, but I did not think much of it, figuring it was just a reaction to the earrings and that it would go away soon. And I pretty much forgot about it until a few months later when for whatever reason I was feeling that earlobe, and I noticed that not only was the lump still there, but it had moved. Five years later, it is still there (currently close to where my ear meets my head). My mom is a nurse, and she said it is probably a lump of scar tissue that somehow broke off and started migrating. It might be smaller than it used to be, so maybe eventually my body will absorb it completely. (And yes, it is definitely not an earring back, my ear never got *that* angry.)
I also had to see a plastic surgeon for a small tumor on my finger. I was in high school and felt so weird walking into a plastic surgeon's office because its such a hush-hugs topic
I had to have surgery on my arm, and I had just gotten my lip pierced about a month before so I still had the piercing stud in. Well the day of surgery came and I was told to remove the lipring. I tried for like 5 minutes, then my dad tried, and my nurse tried and then they brought in a nurse, whose daughters had all sorts of piercings so she knew more about removing them, but even she was struggling. It was getting to the point where they were going to send me home because they didn't want to risk the lip ring coming loose in surgery and me inhaling it. Finally the ball broke loose and came off. Then after that I changed lip piercing to horse shoe hoop that my sister had gotten me and have been wearing that since
When I was 4 years old, I got my ears pierced. It didn’t hurt, but the woman who was piercing my left ear did it to low. When I was 7, I got these adorable dolphin earrings. But they were weighted, but I put them in anyway. My earlobe almost ripped! So I just stopped putting earrings in my left ear so it would close up, then when I was 10, my ear were re-pierced. All was well until about 2 weeks after the piercing- I was cleaning the earrings, normal, then I poked my earlobe, it was a little harder than normal, but my ears close up very quickly so I wasn’t too concerned. The next day, I went to school, and during an honors course, I asked to go to the restroom, because the back of the earring was on wrong. When I got to the restroom, I realized I put the earring in the wrong hole the night before, the new hole had almost completely closed up, because this was only 2 weeks in. I started crying and went to the nurse. She put it back in- but to this day, I cannot take an earring out for more than 45 seconds in my left ear, or it will completely swell back up and I have to really force the earring back in. So I typically don’t change earrings. LOL
I got my ears pierced in 3rd grade too, we went to Claires within a couple weeks my ear swallowed the front of the earring. When we went back they told us we had to push it through ourselves, which really hurt. I can't wear small earrings to this day (almost 10 years) without that ear swallowing it or getting an infection
I had to go to the plastic surgeon once when I has a lump develop next to my eye.He removed it and it was just a weird growth. I looked like I got in a fight for almost three weeks after it was removed. The scar is in the outer crease of my eye, so you can't see it.
I had a bad reaction to cheap earrings. I had piercings in the cartilage and it oxided my piercings and now I have black dots and I always get asked it I got dot tattoos on my ears
i had to get stitches from a plastic surgeon because i got scratched on my face by my cat and the regular doctor said it was too close to my eye for anyone but a plastic surgeon to do the stitches
When I got my second lobe piercings, I also got it pierced through the scar tissue because I got them done when I was younger, and they got infected and I had to let them close up. It didn't hurt that bad though luckily. Now I have the 2nd holes with just a little diamond on a gold post, and my first holes (which I had done when I was a baby) I have stretched (the size is called 2 gage, but it's maybe the same size as a pencil is) with silver tunnels in it so people can see through the hole.
The same thing happened to me! My mom pierced my ears at home when I was 4-5 with a pre-sterilized gun, and a few months later we noticed a lump in my ear. My mom dug it out with her fingernails because it wasn't too deep. It was so painful, but it worked and I still have the same earring holes9 or 10 years later.
My earlobes won't accept anything but glass or acrylic... I've had few other piercings (tongue, neck, micro-implant), and never had issues with the metal... Just in my earlobes. Well, I did have an issue with the micro-implant between my boobies... And had to take it out myself using a cutter, haha
I had my ears pierced in first grade and they also became super infected very frequently and I let them heal back up. But I’ve always had a large lump of scar tissue in my left earlobe and now I’m like I hope it’s not an earring back 😅
I cant wear gold, get really bad reaction on my skin. White gold aswell and also silver. So I only have titanium and surgical steel in my piercing. In my lobes I have wooden tunnels.
OMG! I have to get checked because when I was in 4th grade I got my ears pierced and it was so painful so sore and so swollen for so long (2 1/2 years) that I just let them close and even after it closed to this day. I can feel almost like a small disk in my right ear that no matter what I do just doesn't heal.
+Michelle Rekuc The little disk you feel is probably the fistula (piercing channel) from the piercing, since it was in so long that will probably never go away.
the disc could be scar tissue or the hole from the piercing. it could be also a keeloid (a small bump aka a different type of scar.) hard to heal but you can google it .
Mine isn't that serious but my belly button piercing started to reject so i had to take it out. And i ended up taking out my cartilage piercings because they wouldn't so hurting, the healing process on those is a bitch.
can you show us the earring in the top bit of your ear please? i'd be interested, maybe do a video of your favourite jewellery pages/shops cos I like to find quirky things too! if you ever want a break of your story time or educational videos (which i actually like and learnt things which is good as i work with the public.. but i'd like to know a bit about you as a person & personality with things you love) :D have a good day x
Im allergic to nickel! when i go into jewelry stores i like feeling all the metal necklaces because i can touch it i just cant like wear it like all day because ill get a rash im also allergic to gluten but i wont get into that like i could seriously start a story time channel if i wanted i have a lot of fun stories
Oh my god, yes. This is why you should only get your ears pierced at a tattoo parlor/piercing studio where they are PROPERLY trained, not some jewelry shop where you have a sales clerk with a gun who doesn't know what they are doing.
The earlobe swallowed my back as well. I cried when the doctor took it out. My mum got me cookie dough ice cream! I can’t have sterling silver and SURGERY METAL! IM ALLERGIC TO SURGERY METAL!!!!
just this year I became allergic to my wedding rings. Seriously, I can wear any other jewelry even with nickel, silver, gold, costume except my wedding rings. I actually still have a red rash that comes and goes from it. Can't wear them anymore. Never had that happen to any other rings in my life. By the way, I did get some of those bracelets that you shared one time, the healthy counting ones. I love them.
I got a really bad infection when I was a baby because my mom had gotten my ears pierced but she didn't know I was allergic to cheap metal and the same thing that happened to you happened to me but not as many backings got stuck.
Hi Molly! I am going oldest to newest on your videos, so I don't know if you see these comments at all. I thought I had a bad experience with my first piercing. I had my lobes pierced when I was 13. My mom would not let me get my ears pierced before that. Well, apparently I did not take good enough care of them by putting on the medicine and twirling them when you're supposed to. I don't remember how long it was before they got really inflamed and who noticed it, but the backs of my ears had grown across the backs of the earrings. So instead of going to the doctor, my dad took them out. Not only was this excruciating, but when you're in pain around my dad, or at least when he was alive, you are not allowed to complain about it! So yeah they healed and we let them close. And I did not get them repierced until I was 16. And yep right through the scar tissue. The first time I had them pierced, no big deal. The second time... Oh my word did that hurt! I took better care of them that time. Cheers!
jenneli314 just go to a tattoo shop. They’re actually trained to pierce ears. They also use a needle instead of a gun which is way more sanitary and so the risk of infection is a lot lower
When I was around 8, maybe, I got my ears pierced at claires and the people used a baby sized earring and my ear grew around the earring. I had to go to a piercing shop and get it pushed out of my ear, WHILE I WAS ON VACATION IN LAS VEGAS. To this day I don't have ear piercings and have no plans of getting any lol.
loved the video! you should do a video where you show your cane and you using it! even though you have a guide dog! some people would be inspired to use there canes by watching you!
Piercing guns are generally a horrible idea. Impossible to get clean, and they just shove the stud through the skin. Especially cartilage, they can shatter your cartilage and create a big bump of scar tissue. People, you should always go to a place that uses a hallow piercing needle, like a tattoo shop would be way better than Claire's. Piercing needles are hallow, so they take a little cylinder of the meat out, so the earring has a place to be, instead of forcing all of the meat to the sides. It's pretty shocking the piercing guns are still around and legal. They're a huge sanitary concern. They're just a bad idea. If you see a gun, run.
I have weird skin that would scar weirdly in the first place so piercing anything is out of the question. I do although could have a nose ring cuz no one would have to do any piercing
Hey Molly, love your channel :) I had a similar experience, I am allergic to gold it turns out and got big lumps of scar tissue at the back of my ears after getting my ears pierced,which needed removed at the hospital in the end. One time before this, at my friends house I itched the back of my ear and it burst open and a massive string of pus burst out (yuck!!). xxx
I know this is a quite old video ;) but I wanted to share, that a similar thing happened to me too when I was younger (8 or 9). However my ears were not swollen or infected, I guess I just kept pushing the back of the earring to the ear, so I don't lose the earring and I ended up in time pushing it in the actual ear. It was terrifying but a nice doctor used just medical tweezers and got that thing out of my ear in no time through the back hole of the ear piercing. I never knew it was a somewhat common thing happen, I thought I was the only one with that problem. :D Haa haa. But you are a pro though ;), 3 in one ear and 2 in the other. :O Crazy!
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You might be able to wear sterling silver earrings and rings if you coat them in nail polish. My family has done this with clear nail polish because my sisters and I had similar earring reactions, and we didn't want to get rid of all of our jewelry. It's probably not ideal if you have a severe allergy, but if you ever got a gift or really liked a piece, you could try it.
Two things wrong with that. One, do NOT coat any kind of piercing with nail polish. You do NOT want that in your body. Second, nail polish is good as a temporary solution. It does start to chip off and you constantly have to apply polish. You are much better getting rid of the jewelry.
what metal did you have for your first piercing's? it was probably an allergy. i am an ear piercing expert. i have had so many. i currently have 6 in one and 5 in another. and a belly button ring. if anyone has any questions they can ask here or PM me
I'm allergic to Sterling Silver too!! I completely understand
Beverly Bulletproof me too
I’m allergic to nickel, gold, sterling silver and stainless steele. I have to have titanium jewellery.
I did a six month piercing apprenticeship while I was over in England. What happened to you is called "embedding". It is exactly why we suggest that people go to a piercing studio to get their ears pierced instead of getting them pierced with a piercing gun. We fixed a lot of ears where this exact same thing happened! Granted, most of those weren't even due to an allergy.
+Laura Ghan For my second earlobe hole on my left ear and both my helix piercings I went to a tattoo shop and got them pierced with a needle. It makes me cringe when I hear about people getting cartilage pierced with a gun, so dangerous! If I ever wanted anything else pierced, even another lobe piercing, I'd go to a tattoo shop and have it done with a needle, much better.
+Molly Burke I completely agree with that. I also think it hurts less with a needle than with a gun. My advice to everyone is to find a piercer that you are comfortable with and stick with them!
Molly Burke I got mine done with a needle and it still got infected multiple times
Piercing guns aren't as clean/sanitary as a needle. They reuse guns and they can't be propery cleaned. So safest i would recommend is getting piercing done with a needle at a proper tattoo shop.
The exact same thing happened to me in second grade
Only one trip to a plastic surgeon so far, and that was to get my upper lip stitched because my regular doctor didn't want me to have a bad scar (nice of her!). Coworkers took me out to lunch for my birthday, and getting out of the car, I had my head down because it had started to rain, and I hit my my upper lip on the car door as I was getting out. Ouch, but I went to lunch! During lunch one of the guys says, "Your lip is bleeding!" How unappetizing for them! Getting stitches in that area between your nose and your lip hurts like heck! Anyway, unless I am in an accident, or something, no more plastic surgery for me! I love your story time!
Same thing happened to me with one earring back in 6th grade after having my ears pierced for 4 years! Almost got to the point where I could barely get the front of the earring out as well
Try getting sterling silver and coating it with clear nail polish, I’ve heard it works for most people!
I have found that I can't wear my earrings for more than two days in a row for more than once or twice a month. I have now started to start to wear other ear ornaments and only wear earrings enough to keep them from closing up so that if I do find earrings that I can wear that I don't have to get them re pierced.
What a story! Dang!
I have had the same thing happen to me when I wear most cheap earrings just not as bad.
I had a similar reaction when I was younger. Turns out I am allergic to nickel. I've also had an earring back embedded in my earlobe. Luckily, I found it after picking at a scab behind my ear. I am terrible at picking at my infections and such. But unlike you, I have NEVER tried to get my ears repierced and I kind of regret that. However, I'm a tomboy so I don't really care if I'm not wearing jewelry. Plus, growing up it wasn't common to see hypoallergenic jewelry until later on in life. And my family didn't have enough money to buy more expensive jewelry for me.
My mom's allergic to fake metal that they use on cheap earnings ya know
I know this is an older video but I just saw it and was having Deja vu! I got my ears pierced when I was 8 too and one got infected. To make it worse, my brother (who was a horrible bully to me) would punch me in my infected ear. I remember going to the doctor and my parents squeezing on them and using hydrogen peroxide. Fortunately it cleared up and I still have the piercings (I’m in my 50’s now).
So I have a double helix and a double tragus piercing and had the same exact issue with not being able to get them out with a MRI. I did however eventually figure out how to get them out (like to change my earrings) & it's pretty easy once you know how to. Sometimes it can just be the earring that's stubborn though as well. Or go to a tattoo piercing parlor and they can use a clamp to easily get them out if you ever want to change earrings. I'm highly allergic to nickel metal so I can't wear that or cheap jewelry that turns green easily. My skin is super sensitive! As always I loved your story time and I'm so glad you got that ear infection problem solved!! How crazy! Love you Molly! Love your videos so much!! Much love and many blessings to you! Muah! 💗❣️🥰💓🙏🏻😇
My sister's earlobes used to get those cuts/separations between the lobe and her face and she'd never had hers pierced.
I've had my ears pierced twice, (once when I was seven and once when I was nine) but both times they got infected. I've just decided not to get my ears pierced again.
That's so wired I'm allergic to all jewlery except sterling silver, I can only wear sterling silver. And my earlobes have two bumpy purple scars tissues on each ear from having my ears pierced and not wearing the right kind of jewelry and I haven't been able to get them to go away my mom used to try to stick sewing needles in them thinking they would just pop but only one went down but on the backs of my ear lobes the scar tissue is a lot bigger
I use to leave my earrings on for a long time non stop and my ear lobes half covered the backs of them. I managed to get them out which hurt a lot and I ended up passing out. Needless to say I take them out when I’m sleeping and so far it seems to be working fine.
I got my ears pierced at 3 months. So I don’t remember it and just last week I got them pierced for a second time. I have not gotten any infection yet. And I hope it stays the way. 🤞🏼🤞🏼
I'm also allergic to silver it's awful half of the jewelry I get as gifts I can't even wear because of it.
I had a similar thing happen to me when I was young. I was afraid of my new earrings falling out and so I squeezed the backs on tighter than you should, and one of the backs got swallowed up by my ear lobe. I didn’t notice the back was “gone” until a few days later and apparently that’s all the time it needed to get fully stuck in there and for the whole to close up around it. We didn’t realize that’s what happened though until my mom went to put on the new earring back and she said my love felt hard. So we went to my pediatrician and no one there could be sure that that’s what it was in there, and they didn’t want to cut my ear for no reason so my doc wanted to do an X-ray. My mom didn’t like that idea, so my doc suggested instead of a whole head X-ray to go to my dentist and use the tiny little tooth X-ray equipment so that less of me was exposed to the radiation (not sure that’s how it works but it made my mom feel better sooo).
We went to the dentist and he did the X-ray and confirmed it was in there for us. Then we were going to go back to my pediatrician to get it out but the dentist was like “hey wait I have all the tiny tools and numbing stuff, I’ll just do it!”
So he did! He said he wrote it down in his weird stuff journal cause apparently that’s not the first time something like this happened, he said he got a tiny nail out of someone’s leg one time or something too and other similar small under the skin things that patients tell him about while getting a tooth cleaning.
What a cool dentist
Same thing happened to me when I was young! I’ll never let my future kids get pierced by a gun for this reason
Something tells me the plastic surgeon had seen that before. Those earrings must have had loooong posts.
I always love your story time videos. Thank you Molly for this video. Hopefully a conversation was started about how unsafe piercing guns areI I know I’m watching this late, but maybe another late watcher will watch this and read my comment and learn something! I know it’s not basic knowledge except for people that are use to getting piercings, maybe those who get tattoos, those who work in the industry and those (like me) who went through piercing school (but who became disabled and can’t work in the industry), but you’re not supposed to get you’re ears pierced with a gun. Sure for a lot of people it works out, but for people, like you, it doesn’t. Piercing guns can’t be properly cleaned. Only the metal part is cleaned with an antiseptic wipe and the plastic bit can carry germs and bacteria which can transfer when getting the piercing causing infections. Piercing needles are single use and are cleaned in an autoclave (a special sterilizing machine). You can’t line the piercings up perfectly because 1: it’s hard to eye them if you’re not properly trained and 2: the gun moves with the force of the piercing. With a needle the only way it moved from the dot is if the person’s hand shakes, but normally by using the right size clamps you hit the spot right every time! I don’t work in the industry so I’m not telling people about this daily and I went to piercing school 11 years ago and my binder is a state away at home, but here’s a great article that explains why getting your ears pierced with a gun is so bad and why it’s even worse to get cartilage piercings. www.google.com/amp/s/www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/anti-aging/amp35208/piercing-guns-bad-dangers/ if you can, for your sake please always go to a body piercer and as it explains in the article it hurts less to use the needle than a blunt earring. If you are worried about jewelry, let me tell you that there’s so many beautiful jewelry options! Way more options then when I started getting piercings when I was 17, twelve years ago.
OMG this happened to me and i was so confused until the back of my earring fell out probably a month later
I had that happen to me when I was 10. It was only 1 backing in my right ear. My Nana did it herself with a needle, a knife, and tweezers. She put ice on my ear to numb it first, but I still felt most of it.
I have a weird hard lump that migrates around my ear, but it is definitely not an earring back. Full story below if you are interested.
I got my ears pierced sometime in early grade school, but then I stopped wearing earrings in middle school because I was in theater and could not wear them on stage, and I was too lazy to keep taking them in and out. Towards the end of high school, I found some really pretty earrings and wanted to try wearing them. The holes in my ears never closed up, so I could just insert the earrings, but after a day or two my ears were just really angry and sore so I took the earrings out again. Shortly after that, I could feel a hard lump in my ear near the piercing site, but I did not think much of it, figuring it was just a reaction to the earrings and that it would go away soon. And I pretty much forgot about it until a few months later when for whatever reason I was feeling that earlobe, and I noticed that not only was the lump still there, but it had moved. Five years later, it is still there (currently close to where my ear meets my head). My mom is a nurse, and she said it is probably a lump of scar tissue that somehow broke off and started migrating. It might be smaller than it used to be, so maybe eventually my body will absorb it completely. (And yes, it is definitely not an earring back, my ear never got *that* angry.)
I also had to see a plastic surgeon for a small tumor on my finger. I was in high school and felt so weird walking into a plastic surgeon's office because its such a hush-hugs topic
I had to have surgery on my arm, and I had just gotten my lip pierced about a month before so I still had the piercing stud in. Well the day of surgery came and I was told to remove the lipring. I tried for like 5 minutes, then my dad tried, and my nurse tried and then they brought in a nurse, whose daughters had all sorts of piercings so she knew more about removing them, but even she was struggling. It was getting to the point where they were going to send me home because they didn't want to risk the lip ring coming loose in surgery and me inhaling it. Finally the ball broke loose and came off. Then after that I changed lip piercing to horse shoe hoop that my sister had gotten me and have been wearing that since
Nope but I got a nose ring piecing with my last long term relationship. I just about climbed out of the chair. It hurt soooo bad.
When I was 4 years old, I got my ears pierced. It didn’t hurt, but the woman who was piercing my left ear did it to low. When I was 7, I got these adorable dolphin earrings. But they were weighted, but I put them in anyway. My earlobe almost ripped! So I just stopped putting earrings in my left ear so it would close up, then when I was 10, my ear were re-pierced. All was well until about 2 weeks after the piercing- I was cleaning the earrings, normal, then I poked my earlobe, it was a little harder than normal, but my ears close up very quickly so I wasn’t too concerned. The next day, I went to school, and during an honors course, I asked to go to the restroom, because the back of the earring was on wrong. When I got to the restroom, I realized I put the earring in the wrong hole the night before, the new hole had almost completely closed up, because this was only 2 weeks in. I started crying and went to the nurse. She put it back in- but to this day, I cannot take an earring out for more than 45 seconds in my left ear, or it will completely swell back up and I have to really force the earring back in. So I typically don’t change earrings. LOL
I got my ears pierced in 3rd grade too, we went to Claires within a couple weeks my ear swallowed the front of the earring. When we went back they told us we had to push it through ourselves, which really hurt. I can't wear small earrings to this day (almost 10 years) without that ear swallowing it or getting an infection
I had to go to the plastic surgeon once when I has a lump develop next to my eye.He removed it and it was just a weird growth. I looked like I got in a fight for almost three weeks after it was removed. The scar is in the outer crease of my eye, so you can't see it.
That...is...horrifying. OAO But I love your shirt and necklaces. ^^
I had a bad reaction to cheap earrings. I had piercings in the cartilage and it oxided my piercings and now I have black dots and I always get asked it I got dot tattoos on my ears
i had to get stitches from a plastic surgeon because i got scratched on my face by my cat and the regular doctor said it was too close to my eye for anyone but a plastic surgeon to do the stitches
When I got my second lobe piercings, I also got it pierced through the scar tissue because I got them done when I was younger, and they got infected and I had to let them close up. It didn't hurt that bad though luckily. Now I have the 2nd holes with just a little diamond on a gold post, and my first holes (which I had done when I was a baby) I have stretched (the size is called 2 gage, but it's maybe the same size as a pencil is) with silver tunnels in it so people can see through the hole.
The same thing happened to me! My mom pierced my ears at home when I was 4-5 with a pre-sterilized gun, and a few months later we noticed a lump in my ear. My mom dug it out with her fingernails because it wasn't too deep. It was so painful, but it worked and I still have the same earring holes9 or 10 years later.
My earlobes won't accept anything but glass or acrylic... I've had few other piercings (tongue, neck, micro-implant), and never had issues with the metal... Just in my earlobes.
Well, I did have an issue with the micro-implant between my boobies... And had to take it out myself using a cutter, haha
my favorite earring was a little bent at the tip, so i really pushed to get the back on. It went right into my ear. Popped it right back out though!
I had my ears pierced in first grade and they also became super infected very frequently and I let them heal back up. But I’ve always had a large lump of scar tissue in my left earlobe and now I’m like I hope it’s not an earring back 😅
I cant wear gold, get really bad reaction on my skin. White gold aswell and also silver. So I only have titanium and surgical steel in my piercing. In my lobes I have wooden tunnels.
OMG! I have to get checked because when I was in 4th grade I got my ears pierced and it was so painful so sore and so swollen for so long (2 1/2 years) that I just let them close and even after it closed to this day. I can feel almost like a small disk in my right ear that no matter what I do just doesn't heal.
+Michelle Rekuc The little disk you feel is probably the fistula (piercing channel) from the piercing, since it was in so long that will probably never go away.
the disc could be scar tissue or the hole from the piercing. it could be also a keeloid (a small bump aka a different type of scar.) hard to heal but you can google it .
Mine isn't that serious but my belly button piercing started to reject so i had to take it out. And i ended up taking out my cartilage piercings because they wouldn't so hurting, the healing process on those is a bitch.
can you show us the earring in the top bit of your ear please? i'd be interested, maybe do a video of your favourite jewellery pages/shops cos I like to find quirky things too! if you ever want a break of your story time or educational videos (which i actually like and learnt things which is good as i work with the public.. but i'd like to know a bit about you as a person & personality with things you love) :D
have a good day x
+Molly Burke yesterday I saw you speak in fergus and you were so inspiring I hope you do more
I’ve had that happen to me but it was only one on my right ear, my dad removed mine. I thought the same thing was happening with my backing.
Im allergic to nickel! when i go into jewelry stores i like feeling all the metal necklaces because i can touch it i just cant like wear it like all day because ill get a rash im also allergic to gluten but i wont get into that like i could seriously start a story time channel if i wanted i have a lot of fun stories
Same! It’s so annoying. Especially if jeans have nickel in them. I damaged my ears so badly though that they’re numb to nickel
Oh my god, yes. This is why you should only get your ears pierced at a tattoo parlor/piercing studio where they are PROPERLY trained, not some jewelry shop where you have a sales clerk with a gun who doesn't know what they are doing.
2019!!
I HAD THE SAME THING HAPPEN TO ME!!! I had to get it removed one day! you are not alone!!
The earlobe swallowed my back as well. I cried when the doctor took it out. My mum got me cookie dough ice cream! I can’t have sterling silver and SURGERY METAL! IM ALLERGIC TO SURGERY METAL!!!!
What's surgery metal?
just this year I became allergic to my wedding rings. Seriously, I can wear any other jewelry even with nickel, silver, gold, costume except my wedding rings. I actually still have a red rash that comes and goes from it. Can't wear them anymore. Never had that happen to any other rings in my life. By the way, I did get some of those bracelets that you shared one time, the healthy counting ones. I love them.
I got a really bad infection when I was a baby because my mom had gotten my ears pierced but she didn't know I was allergic to cheap metal and the same thing that happened to you happened to me but not as many backings got stuck.
I'm allergic to sterling silver and my ears will get really sore when I wear earing's though I'm not fussed wearing earing's that are sterling silver.
+MollyBurke You should check out Piercing Pagoda for good jewelry that is gold, white gold, and even some nice nickel jewelry
Hi Molly! I am going oldest to newest on your videos, so I don't know if you see these comments at all. I thought I had a bad experience with my first piercing. I had my lobes pierced when I was 13. My mom would not let me get my ears pierced before that. Well, apparently I did not take good enough care of them by putting on the medicine and twirling them when you're supposed to. I don't remember how long it was before they got really inflamed and who noticed it, but the backs of my ears had grown across the backs of the earrings. So instead of going to the doctor, my dad took them out. Not only was this excruciating, but when you're in pain around my dad, or at least when he was alive, you are not allowed to complain about it! So yeah they healed and we let them close. And I did not get them repierced until I was 16. And yep right through the scar tissue. The first time I had them pierced, no big deal. The second time... Oh my word did that hurt! I took better care of them that time. Cheers!
that is so freaky! and sounds super painful
Crazy. Im actually allergic to gold. It only happened when i became pregnant and it's only earrings that effect me
...and that killed any lingering desire I had to get my ears pierced
jenneli314 just go to a tattoo shop. They’re actually trained to pierce ears. They also use a needle instead of a gun which is way more sanitary and so the risk of infection is a lot lower
I love your story times!!
I love to listen to you and your stories !
When I was around 8, maybe, I got my ears pierced at claires and the people used a baby sized earring and my ear grew around the earring. I had to go to a piercing shop and get it pushed out of my ear, WHILE I WAS ON VACATION IN LAS VEGAS. To this day I don't have ear piercings and have no plans of getting any lol.
This is funny to me because I can ONLY wear sterling silver earrings because of my metal allergies
I had one earring back in my ear
loved the video! you should do a video where you show your cane and you using it! even though you have a guide dog! some people would be inspired to use there canes by watching you!
😂😂😂 Molly you are a one of a kind 😉 never heard of a story like this before 👀 you made me laugh 🤭 sending hugs and kisses 🌺
Piercing guns are generally a horrible idea. Impossible to get clean, and they just shove the stud through the skin. Especially cartilage, they can shatter your cartilage and create a big bump of scar tissue. People, you should always go to a place that uses a hallow piercing needle, like a tattoo shop would be way better than Claire's. Piercing needles are hallow, so they take a little cylinder of the meat out, so the earring has a place to be, instead of forcing all of the meat to the sides. It's pretty shocking the piercing guns are still around and legal. They're a huge sanitary concern. They're just a bad idea. If you see a gun, run.
I can't wear any earrings any more, gold, sterling silver, cheap ones, none. My ears get red and swollen and it hurts. It really sucks!
+Krista Gornoski That's too bad :( I hope that never happens to me! I LOVE jewellery!
have you tried nickel free?
try implant grade titanium.
There's a lot to be said for clip-ons! :D
I have weird skin that would scar weirdly in the first place so piercing anything is out of the question. I do although could have a nose ring cuz no one would have to do any piercing
I had this! I had to have surgery to remove mine 5 in one ear 6 in the other I'd never heard of it before then aha crazy
Hey Molly can you please come to Sydney Australia
We have lots of kangaroos in Sydney!!!!
Love you so much
From your blind friend Ruby
I had the same thing happen to me!!
Hey Molly, love your channel :) I had a similar experience, I am allergic to gold it turns out and got big lumps of scar tissue at the back of my ears after getting my ears pierced,which needed removed at the hospital in the end. One time before this, at my friends house I itched the back of my ear and it burst open and a massive string of pus burst out (yuck!!). xxx
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I know this is a quite old video ;) but I wanted to share, that a similar thing happened to me too when I was younger (8 or 9). However my ears were not swollen or infected, I guess I just kept pushing the back of the earring to the ear, so I don't lose the earring and I ended up in time pushing it in the actual ear. It was terrifying but a nice doctor used just medical tweezers and got that thing out of my ear in no time through the back hole of the ear piercing. I never knew it was a somewhat common thing happen, I thought I was the only one with that problem. :D Haa haa. But you are a pro though ;), 3 in one ear and 2 in the other. :O Crazy!
You might be able to wear sterling silver earrings and rings if you coat them in nail polish. My family has done this with clear nail polish because my sisters and I had similar earring reactions, and we didn't want to get rid of all of our jewelry. It's probably not ideal if you have a severe allergy, but if you ever got a gift or really liked a piece, you could try it.
you probably shouldngt put nail polish in a piercing....
Nononononononono don’t put nail polish in a piercing
Two things wrong with that. One, do NOT coat any kind of piercing with nail polish. You do NOT want that in your body. Second, nail polish is good as a temporary solution. It does start to chip off and you constantly have to apply polish. You are much better getting rid of the jewelry.
Spread vaseline over the holes before you put sterling silver in
You were great at empowerment day ❤️
It's true what they say we Caffel when you get your ears pierced
what metal did you have for your first piercing's? it was probably an allergy. i am an ear piercing expert. i have had so many. i currently have 6 in one and 5 in another. and a belly button ring. if anyone has any questions they can ask here or PM me
I was at the be inspired in inpowerment day
you look beautiful 😊
Seriously having firewood those things in your ear is disgusting seriously it's discussed
I mean...I guess your ears need to eat too? 😂
I have those hard lumps in my ears to
Maybe you're just a vampire.
I got to see you at impowerment day 😎
Eek!