Hyena
09-06-15, 17:53
Hi everyone! I just really need some kind words on this. It's one of my biggest, yet stupidest paranoias...
My ears are pierced six times - four in the lobes, two in the cartilage. The first ones I got ages ago (in the lobe) are fine and I don't have any problems with them.
I got the cartilage pierced not in a piercing studio but with a piercing gun. Everything went fine, they healed well, but I got them pierced like one month before my panic attack (and I didn't know I was having a piercing attack). After some time, I started obsessing the piercing gun had pierced some nerve and I was now suffering the consequences. I couldn't even trade my piercing jewel or even touching it without getting all anxious. Until someone told me there were no major nerves in the ears so it was just anxiety talking for me.
I eventually got better and my anxiety got under control. So I decided to get two more piercings in the lobe, again with a piercing gun. They healed fine, no problems.
Now that my anxiety got back, I am obsessing over this again!!
One of the piercings on my lobe started to bleed and I got all panicky. I can't even touch the ones in the cartilage without getting anxious again. The holes look kinda black because I didn't trade de piercings for so long, and they were metal, so got rusted. And I can't clean it! :( I'm so scared it's gonna infect me with something.
Today I changed my piercings back the sterilized ones I got when I did them (I am not even sure if they're the sterilized ones but I can't remember!) I cleaned them with alcohol and after some time (emerged in the alcohol) one started getting this orange rusty thing and now I'm scared to put them on. I can't leave the holes open for too much time though, I KNOW I am gonna regret it when my anxiety gets better again.
I jput on the other ones (in the cartilage) right now and now my face is getting so tingly and I feel weird. I don't know if it's anxiety or a real thing. ): is there any reason to be this scared?
My ears are pierced six times - four in the lobes, two in the cartilage. The first ones I got ages ago (in the lobe) are fine and I don't have any problems with them.
I got the cartilage pierced not in a piercing studio but with a piercing gun. Everything went fine, they healed well, but I got them pierced like one month before my panic attack (and I didn't know I was having a piercing attack). After some time, I started obsessing the piercing gun had pierced some nerve and I was now suffering the consequences. I couldn't even trade my piercing jewel or even touching it without getting all anxious. Until someone told me there were no major nerves in the ears so it was just anxiety talking for me.
I eventually got better and my anxiety got under control. So I decided to get two more piercings in the lobe, again with a piercing gun. They healed fine, no problems.
Now that my anxiety got back, I am obsessing over this again!!
One of the piercings on my lobe started to bleed and I got all panicky. I can't even touch the ones in the cartilage without getting anxious again. The holes look kinda black because I didn't trade de piercings for so long, and they were metal, so got rusted. And I can't clean it! :( I'm so scared it's gonna infect me with something.
Today I changed my piercings back the sterilized ones I got when I did them (I am not even sure if they're the sterilized ones but I can't remember!) I cleaned them with alcohol and after some time (emerged in the alcohol) one started getting this orange rusty thing and now I'm scared to put them on. I can't leave the holes open for too much time though, I KNOW I am gonna regret it when my anxiety gets better again.
I jput on the other ones (in the cartilage) right now and now my face is getting so tingly and I feel weird. I don't know if it's anxiety or a real thing. ): is there any reason to be this scared?