Signs you should perhaps wear earrings more frequently...

[sofiaviolet]

(especially considering how many of them I have)

Currently have an earring in backward through my left earlobe - I couldn't get it to go all the way through coming in from the front. (I'll turn it around tomorrow.) Honestly I'm a bit surprised I got it through at all, it's been so long and my earlobe has been so cranky.

Of course now I want more holes poked in me, but I have to wait until I have both cooperative earlobes and money that is not earmarked for Christmas presents for my loved ones.

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[laughingrat]

Oh my goodness, it is so annoying when that happens. I had cranky earlobes all the way through early college.

[sofiaviolet]

Mine only seem to get cranky when they're devoid of jewelry - I think having something in there prevents gunk from building up by giving it a path out and keeping the tunnel open. So really, the solution is just to wear the damn earrings I have so very many of.

[laughingrat]

Haha, so true.

My third holes were very difficult to heal, and one I just allowed to close up, then got repierced at a real piercing place, rather than a mall kiosk. Both have nonreactive CBRs in them now and have for--oh god, since 1997. Wow, a long time. Point is, yeah, I kinda figured at the time that was the only way they were gonna heal and stay healed. 0_o

[sofiaviolet]

Yeah, these are the second go at my ears - the first ones were via piercing gun and I was a tween or thereabouts. That ended poorly and I had a small lump of scar tissue in each earlobe for many years after.

I can actually wear any kind of metal as long as the holes aren't already irritated, at least for a while. After a couple of days it sometimes gets uncomfortable, so I keep my earrings of unknown and known-irritant metals for occasional wear.

[laughingrat]

You know, that's my experience with stainless, too. I can actually wear it when my ears aren't already freaking out, but when I was stretching my lobes, I developed a sudden and very pronounced reaction to it and had to switch to titanium for stretching. Maybe I can switch back now--that would be nice, since there's a lot of stainless jewelry out there.

[sofiaviolet]

o_O Wow. For me, stainless is as non-reactive as I need to go, and the earrings I limit my exposure to are assorted Mystery Metals.