Nipple piercing: preliminary aftercare exerience
- From: "pablo" <pablo.at.simply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:50:13 GMT
Wow, after only a week it basically feels like it's healed (but I know it
hasn't!). I tend to heal rather well, I guess it's a healthy diet lifelong
habit and the fact I have always been on multivitamin supplements. Plus
decent genetics.
Since a few friends told me that my experience really helped them out,
here's the whole aftercare process:
Stick to what they say:
(1) I thoroughly cleansed the piercing twice a day with dial soap and a
q-tip in a hot shower. Making sure that -whatever little- crusties developed
came off before even thinking about moving the ring a little. And if it
hadn't very easily moved by itself via contact with the q-tip once the
little crusty parts at both incision point came off, I would have left it
alone. Since it moved by itself, and I felt no discomfort at all, I took the
chance to cleanse the entire ring, not that there was ever much to clean.
(2) Salt water soaks, just like they say. The only thing I did was to put a
little bit of bactine into the saltwater solution. probably doesn't do a
thing, but it felt more hygienic.
(3) I sprayed a very little amount of Lanacane after I was finished. Just
externally. Told myself I couldn't hurt the externally exposed sides of the
wound. For those not familiar with Lanacane, it's over the counter USA
stuff, meaning it's just little amounts of BenzeChloride and Benzocaine.
They add Vitamin E and Aloe into the mix. Since it had worked so well a
while ago when I was left with raw skin after swimming into a large
jellyfish, I decided to try it, and probably would to it again. As usual,
this is not a recommendation, everybody better test whether they're
sensitive to it before even thinking about using it! I knew it seemed to
help me, because of the hydrating yet anti-bacterial effect. But I repeat: I
used it only externally, I did never rotate the ring after applying it.
I tend to be a bit of a microbe-phobe, thus initially for 2 days I put
Bactine on the q-tip at the end of the procedure (without moving the ring
anymore) externally, but after 2 days I saw the skin had turned very dry
(duh, I had read about the drying property, but us inquisitive souls have to
try it) and even flaky in 2 spots. The reptile undergoing skin-change look
doesn't work for me.
So it looks at this point like this is going to be a quick and uneventful
healing story, but I'll keep the full routine up for at least 2 months.
I have also been asked by every person under the sun (well, friends and
family, it's not like I walk aroud shirtless) how much it hurt. Honest: not
at all. And I am *really* not the Navy Seal type. I went into the shop
determined, they took me on right away (which cut waiting time, and waiting
time is the toughest, your brain messes with you). The psychological climax
is when they tell you to brief deeply and your brain prepares itself for
some piercing pain. But then it was over, I had a nipple ring, and didn't
really feel much. Kudos to the artist. I am sure there's probably some luck
involved in the pain experience. My earlobe hurt worse, but that was *many*
years ago, one of those early teenage initiation rituals and performed by a
friend with the good old (thick leather sewing type) needle and cork method.
Oh, and the 2 (small) tattoos I have hurt more, really. The one on my ankle
made me wince at least once, I remember. It's all very manageable, though. I
read several experiences on the net that talked about a nipple piercing
being their most painful experience in their entire lives... wait until you
break a bone, my friends, you've lead sheltered lives... :-)
....pablo
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