Take care of your mouth. Make sure you are keeping up with brushing and flossing your teeth after every meal. If you are a smoker, try to cut back (or even better, eliminate) your smoking habits while the piercing is healing. After every smoke, you should clean out your mouth. The best way to clean your tongue piercing is NOT with Listerine, but with a hot saline (AKA salt water) solution. Rinse your mouth with the saline solution at least twice a day (maybe even more, if you eat frequently) throughout the healing period. Only speak when necessary, and try to refrain from playing with the ring too much. Both speaking and ring-playing can cause irritation in the piercing and will slow down the healing process. Do not slack off with your hygiene! Drink lots of water as well.
Yees, even though people tell you not to- you can. I changed mine after a week and I've had no problems or pain! just make sure you chase the ring your taking out with the ring your putting in and put some neosporin on the ends of your jewlery, that way it goes through quick and easy (:
That limitation depends on mainly you. Now if your talking sex, that then would depend on your partner, some people dig it some people dont. Anyway, its strictly a personal choice that you have to live with after its done and your friends and family should accept and respect your decision to put a hole in your tongue. ________________________ Immediately after the piercing is done (and this should be told to you at the time if it's not then you would be wise to find a different artist); no oral sex, no kissing, no activity that would allow others bodily fluids to come in contact with your tongue, no spicy food, no yeasty foods, no beer, no swimming, be gentle with your piercing, no playing with it and no removing the jewelry for the first month. For the first week you should abide by all of the above AND; no hard solid foods, no hot drinks, little to no soda, twice daily cleaning with alcohol-free mouth wash and if you feel it would help (I do) one 15 minute salt-water soak per day (iodine free sea-salt is best). After one month then you really only need to abstain from oral sex and others bodily fluids after 3 months then you should be safe to engage in anything you please.
The definitive treatment is surgical repositioning of the septum, accomplished by breaking it loose and fixing it in a proper place while it heals
So you removed your lip piercing before it healed....Well, first off why did you remove it?? That has a big basis on what the answer would be....If you removed it because you didn't like it, or school said to remove it, and not because it was problematic with the healing, then you shouldn't have to do anything...In about two weeks it should be healed and the hole closed....If you took it out because it was infected then you might want to use a sea salt soak to rinse your mouth and to soak the outside....Mix 1/4 teaspoon of sea salts, all natural salt from the sea, with about 8 oz. of clean [preferably distilled] water and use some cotton balls to soak the area with....And be sure to rinse your mouth out with it. Oh yeah, first heat the water like you would your bath water, hot enough to open your pores but not so hot as to scald you....TatuBaron
I don't think so, I think I went bout as deep as u can with the needle and just not dark enough when it heals. Am I wrong? Or does the ink just not work as good "sucks"?
yes. but not before the wound from the piercing heals.
It's the tongues version of a scab it will ease off as the piercing heals, relax.
The initial piercing is not painful. The only thing felt is the pressure of needle. The clamp on the tongue hurts more than the actual piercing. The healing after is the painful part. The tongue will swell, and the muscle will be sore. As the tongue adjust to the metal and heals itself from the initial tear and swelling, the pain will subside, generally over a few days following the piercing. By experience, a piercing in the upper cartilage hurts more than a piercing in the tongue.
Yes. After the piercing heals your speech will improve and will eventually return to normal.
Your tongue swells because the piercing is still healing and when you sleep, your heart and tongue are on the same level. With your mouth open and snoring at night this tends to dry the tongue and the swelling occurs. The swelling will ease off over time as the piercing toughens up and heals further.
Yes. But you should keep cleaning it like if you still have it on until it heals. with or without piercing. i just took my nipple piercing out cos it was bleeding i had it done 4 days ago.
A bump around your dimple piercing is the body guarding the piercing, the surrounding tissue toughens as the piercing heals. This will ease off as the piercing heals, ensure you are rinsing the piercing daily under running water (best done in the shower after shampoo and conditioner as these tend to irritate the piercing). Should you have serious concerns contact your body piercer and let him/her have a look at it.
Sometimes, this will settle down as the piercing heals and seasons "toughens up".
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You should not make out until the piercing heals.
It takes as long as it takes once a piercing has healed it depends on haow long you leave the jewellery out, if you are done with the piercing it can take a few days to several weeks for the piercing to actually close once it's a seasoned piercing (seasoned being over a year old).
Yeah that's normal and it will ease and disappear as the piercing heals. It's basically the same type of discharge that would occur with any other piercing except the discharge is on your tongue so it looks weird. Fuzzy tongue! It's OK it will go away just stay on your aftercare routine.