After 7 days, the gun piercing had to be removed so the experiment ended. I had already (foolishly) written loads more about the stages of healing because we planned to follow it to the end but alas now it will never reach that so I suppose I’ll do another blog one day and save it all for that!
Now that the stud has been removed, Elanor has also decided to stop cleaning and turning the stud and I’ve let her off because she’s been through enough already.
Here are the final Day 8 pictures. The needle piercing has pretty much done nothing so is still healing as you would expect. The gun piercing, although the jewellery has been changed, is still a little tender but that should be better and both should be fully healed in 10 weeks or so.
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Gun piercing is overpriced, uses poor quality metal in its jewellery which is deliberately disguised as good quality and safe when it isn’t. The aftercare solution that is supposed to heal a piercing in 3 weeks is a chemical weapon and should absolutely NOT be put on anyone’s skin, let alone newly pierced ears LET ALONE the newly pierced ears of small children. It’s bleach. Don’t put bleach on yourself. Even on the bumhole. You heard me. Gun piercing in chain stores costs more than needle piercing in most reputable piercing establishments and you get less for your money.
The aftercare advice is INSANE and piercings definitely should not be cleaned any more than during normal personal hygiene (hair washing and showering etc)
Studs do not need to be turned every day, in fact they don’t need to be turned at all. In fact that causes more swelling and issues.
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Manufacturers and mass producers of guns and gun-studs for piercing do not care about people, they care about money. It isn’t safe and it isn’t pleasant.
In conclusion: Gun piercings are worse than I thought and I am a lot more passionate about banning the practice than I used to be. I will be speaking to the Tattoo and Piercers Union and trying to get this brought to the attention of parliament.
If you want to get yours or your child’s ears pierced, never ever ever go to somewhere that uses a gun. It isn’t worth this:
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She decided to see if she could cope a few more days until she was back at work and we could sort it then. But then later towards the evening, this happened…
At this point we decided it couldn’t be allowed to go on any longer. I took out the stud and replaced it with a 12mm barbell to give it the space it needed to swell properly and go back down. If you want to see how that went, copy and paste this into your browser. Technological ineptitude means I can’t embed it here. Boo.
This is what we took out. The fluid there is a bit of alcohol by the way! Felt compelled to give it a squirt immediately, though not entirely sure why because it went straight in the bin!
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Measured to check, yes it was 6mm. I wouldn’t ever use a 6mm stud in a new piercing! This is VERY silly.
Right to left: the 6mm gun stud that was used, the 8mm labret that should have been used and the 12mm barbell that we fitted to fix it.
At this stage, there is a distinct difference between the two piercings. Elanor says “The gun piercing is really starting to hurt”
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If someone came in with this gun piercing looking as it does, I would change out the jewellery and tell them to stop cleaning and turning it. But this is for SCIENCE DAMMIT!! So she’s going to persevere. Maybe that speedy healing solution will kick in soon and it’ll all be fine in a day or two…
As you can see, the swelling has really started to look worrying. The jewellery is clearly not helping and the speedy healing solution isn’t helping.
Once a scab is formed, the area remains swollen and may feel warm for up to 3 weeks. Reason being, the spleen is sending little fellas called monocytes to the area of injury where they join together like the Megazord (it’s a power rangers reference and that’s FINE) to form macrophages. “Macrophage” means “big eater” and their job is to munch up any cells or bits of gubbins that aren’t supposed to be there, break them down and reabsorb them. During the inflammation stage, the army is building but once everyone is assembled the roadways that are the blood vessels can chill and the swelling will go down.
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With a gun: Well, since the body has already started trying to bleed and it can’t get out, it’s pretty likely to swell up and possibly bruise pretty quickly. That burning and stinging sensation Elanor felt after her gun piercing was her body trying to pump blood into the area and it not being able to escape, creating some sort of gross flesh-balloon. Additionally, the post is only 6mm long so there isn’t much room for swelling and the stud looks tight from the outset.
I expect the gun pierced ear to be more swollen than the needle piercing and worry a bit that the jewellery from the gun piercing might be too short and could start to embed.
With the needle: Using an 1.2x8mm labret means that not only is there room for blood to get out if it needs to but also, there is space for the ear lobe to swell. The titanium is inert so the body is able to crack on with healing it as if it’s not there at all.
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I don’t expect much visible swelling on the needle pierced ear because it will be accommodated for by the jewellery so shouldn’t cause any further trauma.
One issue with the gun piercing could easily be that the shorter jewellery is too tight which causes further injury which causes more swelling which causes more trauma which causes more swelling and you see where this goes? Additionally, all that turning and cleaning is going to traumatise the area and make this all the more likely.
Definitely getting quite snug and the ear is looking red as the blood vessels remain active to try and address the injury. Which is causing more injury because there isn’t enough space on the bar!
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First, a note: it occurred to me that having done the piercings on day 2 of the blog, it gets a bit confusing because the pictures are going to be labelled as different days to the blog posts. So although this is the third blog entry, it’s the second day in the life of the piercings. That will be less confusing. Sorry about the title.
After a wound, you have probably noticed, your body bleeds. This is obviously for a reason. Firstly, blood being a liquid will help flush out any bits of nasty that have got into the body. Secondly, blood carries all the ingredients your body needs to heal. To start out, it needs fibrin to build a scab so that’s what gets sent there. Unfortunately, the healing cells are bigger than your average (very small) blood cell, so the vessels need to expand so that they can fit. This means that the area heats up, expands the blood vessels and has a big ol’ bleed. Once your body has expanded the blood vessels enough to get some fibrin down there, your blood will start to thicken, that’s coagulation. I get a little excited when I see a nice bit of blood thickening, it’s a sign of good healing abilities and healthy, well-oxygenated blood. Once the coagulation has kicked in, the fibrin starts to plug the gaps and the bleeding stops. That’s Hemostasis (hemo=blood stasis=stillness)
GUN: A gun piercing shoots an earring through the ear, the hole thus is the same size as the earring, there is no space around it. Your body wants to bleed (and it is better for it if it does!) but it can’t because the exit has been instantly blocked by a stud.
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NEEDLE: A needle piercing inserts jewellery via a cannula so is by necessity VERY SLIGHTLY less wide in the jewellery than in the hole. That’s why most piercings will bleed a little. Which, as discussed, is good.
A final note: I said I’d talk about turning the earrings every day. The gun piercing aftercare instructions said to rotate the studs 3x a day, I say do not rotate them at all. Why?
Well, because the gun piercing used blunt force to make a hole only the width of the jewellery, turning it is pretty important. If you don’t, the fibrous blood cells will hold the earring in place and it can embed into the ear. You won’t end up with a tiled wall around your bathroom, you’ll end up plastering your ladder to the wall.
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With a needle piercing, because there is space, blood can move around the jewellery, there is no need to break the fibrin and the jewellery isn’t going to become part
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