cuz i want a piercing but not if its gonna hurt cuz i m fraid of pain is there n e thing i can do to numb it before i get a piercing?
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You cant really numb it. Its so quick that I dont think you have anything to worry about.As a piercer, I dont think people find it one of the most painful piercings.Most people say that the clamp hurts the worst, and that only feels like a little pinch.But everybody's pain tolarance is unique. \nThe only numbing cream that is available cant be used near the mouth.(so its ok for ears,nipples and navels-but not oral stuff)\nHeres a tip. When you get pierced, they should tell you to rinse your mouth out with an alcoholic based mouthwash, If you do it for a long time ( like 2 minuites) most people say it numbs the inside of their mouth.
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something doesan't hurt unless its got nerves, viewns dont have nerves so its porbably something 2  do with ur wrists. I would get that chekced out first, not ur viens.
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it will be sore for a few weeks yet or even months, it all depends on your body and how long it takes to heal. the darkened area will prob just be bruising from the piercing. When i had mine done this all happened and had gunk all round it for a while. Get some salt water in an egg cup and soak it for a few mins every day. this will help the healing process.if it starts bleeding or starts worrying you go o the doctors or the place where you got it done just to be sure.x
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It is the least painful piercing you can get, for what that is worth. It will swell moderately for a few days and be sore. Eating may be painful until the swelling and sensitivity go down. You may need to re-learn how to eat certain foods. You also have to be very careful of infection for the first few weeks, when you eat, food can become lodged in the hole and if it stays can get pretty nasty. Also, don't buy metal barbells until you are very accustomed to your piercing. For some time you will have a tendency to accidentally bite on the bar and if you have metal ends and not plastic you can chip your teeth. Also, body jewelry is expensive so expect to spend some money if you swallow your jewelry (which can happen often if you do not occasionally check that the ball is snugly screwed on). Your sensitivity to hot and cold may increase temporarily. As for sex, be careful...that's all I'll say about that.\n\nMost importantly: ONLY BE PIERCED BY A PROFESSIONAL. There is a large vein which runs through the center of the tounge and if this is hit you will bleed for a freakishly long time.
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Keep them clean, try not to play with them. Make sure the jewelry you have is genuine gold or surgical stainless steel. Soak it in sea salt water at night or when you can. Hint...Epsom salt, bactine and peroxide ARE NOT good. If things get worse, talk to a piercer and I'm sure they can help you out.\n\nAlso find jewelry that's comfortable in them. CBRs/rings might be easier to use than post earrings(bad idea) or barbells(curved or straight)
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It hurts. But it will be red and swollen. Get it at least a week before your plans, otherwise it will be big and red. Ice didn't help mine, but a bubble bath helped it alot.
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I think that getting your belly button is more bearable, maybe just because its something you "want" to do and you are scared when you are getting a needle in your mouth so i think that getting poked with a needle in my mouth is way worse, plus you get a reward after you get your belybutton pierced, you have a belly ring and you just have a sore mouth after getting a filling........oh and i think peircings are f'in hot, i have 7...hell yeah
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Ha, I got a tattoo on my inner lip saying: 'pierce here' only because I was going to get my lip pierced. I couldn't get it pierced for a few weeks all because of that. Plus, I woke up with a sore lip and I had no idea why. I didn't figure it out for a while
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Some people find that dealing with physical pain is easier than dealing with emotional pain.\n\nMost people who self-injure tend to be perfectionists, are unable to handle intense feelings, are unable to express their emotions verbally, have dislike for themselves and their bodies, and can experience severe mood swings.\n\nSelf-injury can help someone relieve intense feelings such as anger, sadness, loneliness, shame, guilt and emotional pain. Many people who cut themselves, do this in an attempt to try and release all the emotions they are feeling internally. Others may feel so numb, that seeing their own blood when they cut themselves, helps them to feel alive because they usually feel so dead inside. \n\n\nIf you feel the urge to injure yourself, below is a list of suggestions that might help you to overcome that urge.  Please be advised that not all of these suggestions will be helpful to everyone.  What is helpful to one person, may not be helpful to someone else.  These suggestions have been provided by individuals who self injured and what they found helpful to them.  If you feel that a certain suggestion may in fact cause you to want to self injure even more, do NOT use that suggestion.  Find ones that are helpful for you.  Again, these are only suggestions and may not be helpful to everyone. \n\n\n1.deep breathing \n\n2.relaxation techniques \n\n3.call a friend, your therapist or a crisis line \ntry not be be alone (visit a friend, go shopping, etc.) \n\n4.take a hot bath \n\n5.listen to music\n \n6.go for a walk \n\n7.write in a journal\n \n8.wear an elastic around wrist and snap it when you have the urge to harm yourself \n\n9.some people find it helpful to draw red lines on themselves with washable markers instead of cutting themselves \n\n10.hold ice cubes in your hands - the cold causes pain in your hands, but it is not dangerous or harmful (some people find it relieves the urge to harm themselves for that moment)\n \n11.punching a bed or a pillow (when nothing but a physical outlet for your anger and frustration will work). \n\n12.scratch draw a picture on a thick piece of wood or use a screw driver and stab at the piece of wood. (can be another physical way to release your emotions without harming yourself.)\n \n13.avoid temptation (i.e. avoiding the area in CVS where the razor blades are kept, etc.) \n\n14.try to find your own creative ways as outlets for emotions. \n\n15.learn to confront others/making your own feelings known instead of keeping them inside \ngo outside and scream and yell \n\n16.take up a sport (a form of exercise can help you release tension, etc.)\n \n17.work with paint, clay, play-doo, etc. (the person who suggested this mentioned that they would make a big sculpture and do whatever they wanted to it.  They said it was helpful to calm the urge to self-injure, plus it gave them some idea of what might be underlying the pain. \n\n18.draw a picture of what or who is making you angry \ninstead of harming yourself, try massaging the area you want to harm with massage oils or creams, reminding yourself that you are special and you deserve to treat yourself and your body with love and respect \n\n19.go to church or your place of worship \nwear a pipe cleaner or something that will fit on the places that you injure.  One person did this as a way to remind herself that she could call someone instead of hurting herself and that she had other ways to cope. \n\n20.break the object that you use to self-injure as a way to show that you have control over it.\n \n21.write a letter to the person(s) that have hurt you and express how they made you feel.   Theses letters do not have to be in perfect form and you do not have to please anyone but yourself.  You do not have to give these letters to the people, but it is a great way to release the feelings that you are carrying within.  After you write the letters, you can decide then what to do with them.  Some people find destroying the letters help (i.e. tear
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I'm not sure about which would be recommended you should ask your piercer about that but as for healing time it varies. As long as you follow all the post-pierce care instructions (cleaning, rotating etc) it really doesn't take that long. They'll tell you about 6 weeks, but mine felt fine after about 2. However my husband had his done for a few years and they never healed. My suggestion is if they still are sore and oozing after the 6 weeks call the piercer (get a card so you know who did it) and find out whether you should just take them out. It sucks to have to do that since they aren't cheap, but some people's bodies won't deal with a foreign body like that well.
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go to the doctor.\ninfections from piercings can be very serious.
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I think that what you are experiencing is normal since you just had the procedure done a couple days ago.  Keep your hands clean when touching your ear-lopes and use an alcohol swap to clean the area each day, and your ears should feel fine in a few more days.  Don't wear the same earrings all the time without removing them ever so often just to let the hole heal around it, not over it.  Too, wear good quality sterling silver or 12 k gold or better posts to prevent infection.  And, lastly don't share pierced earrings with friends
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OK, I had to have a HUGE filling a few months ago because I had a really big cavity that I'd ignored for a long time. To be honest, yes, it did hurt a bit getting it done, especially when the dentist drilled deep in the tooth, close to the nerve. \n\nBut when I saw the dentist then it was an emergency appointment just to fix that one tooth - he told me that I had a lot more cavities, but he couldn't do them because he was only for emergencies. He told me I should find another dentist to fill them ASAP as some of the cavities were fairly bad. Anyway, I ignored his advice and a couple of weeks ago needed to have a tooth extracted because it got so rotten.\n\nSo yes, getting deep cavities filled can be a bit painful, but it's certainly better than the alternative, which is leaving them to get so bad they need to be extracted. If you feel pain during the fillings, tell your dentist and he can give you more anaesthetic. And you won't even feel the needle if he needs to give you more, because your gum will be numb. Good luck!
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15 Piercing Myths Exposed\n\nby Amy Redd\n\nThe idea of paying someone to shove metal through your flesh might not rank very high on your To-Do list. However, it might jump up a few notches if you were able to separate the truth about the art of body piercing from certain myths floating around. While body piercing may not be for everyone, flawed preconceptions only heighten the reluctance of potential candidates to delve into this somewhat taboo area.\n\nEven the pierced population can become confused by the fallacies running rampant through society. Misinformation leads to health hazards if a new piercing is improperly cared for. Whether you are in the market for a body piercing or not - don't believe everything you hear. \n\nThe Association of Professional Piercers - an international, non-profit group - dispenses health and safety information about body piercing. APP-certified professional piercer Randy Smyre at Pain & Wonder Tattoos and Body Piercing helps to dispel these hindering myths:\n\nPiercings can cause paralysis. This is not an effect of the actual piercing procedure. If an infection is allowed to set in, and nothing is done about it, paralysis is only a possibility, Smyre says. He has never heard of it being a direct instantaneous result of a piercing. If piercings are properly cared for, it should not be a factor.\n\nIt is virtually impossible to blow your nose if you have a nose piercing. Rest assured that someone with a nose piercing is just as capable of blowing his or her nose as someone without this piercing. Unless the jewelry in the nose is extremely large and obstructive, Smyre says it does not affect the ability to blow your nose whenever the need should arise. Tara Newsome, a sophomore Linguistics and Spanish major from Augusta, has a total of 11 body piercings, including one in her nostril. She says the jewelry hasn't interfered with blowing her nose, and it merely took a little time to grow accustomed to. "Everybody asked me, 'How do you stand that?'" she says. "You just get used to it."\n\nDrinking beer with a new oral piercing will cause a yeast infection to form in your mouth. This is false, but don't celebrate just yet. Drinking alcoholic beverages of any kind while a piercing heals, especially an oral piercing, is not recommended by the APP. It will destroy the newly formed skin tissue and cause unnecessary swelling, Smyre says. "The healthier your lifestyle, the easier it will be for your piercing to heal," according to the APP Web site (www.safepiercing.org).\n\nWell at least there's nothing wrong with drinking a little alcohol before getting pierced. Wrong again. Aside from the excess bleeding and swelling alcohol would cause, Smyre says this also brings up an issue of poor judgment. "Drunk people are impossible to deal with," he adds. Those with alcohol in their system won't get pierced at Pain & Wonder.\n\nIf a certain vein in the tongue is accidentally pierced, you could bleed to death. There is surprisingly some amount of truth to this, though it is not nearly as alarming as it first appears. There is an arterial structure that, if pierced, can cause excessive bleeding (not necessarily death). It might not even be noticeable at first because the blood drains down the tongue, Smyre says. You would probably get sick and seek medical attention before you would even realize what actually happened. Technically this is a possibility, but it is extremely unlikely when dealing with a trained professional. Smyre says the tongue is not a very complex organ. To avoid such a situation, the piercer must simply pull back the tongue and check the location of this arterial structure before proceeding with the piercing.\n\nCleaning a piercing as many times a day as possible will ensure a faster healing time. While this might seem like common sense, over-cleaning is not better for a piercing. Piercings should be cleaned about twice daily an
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i have me ears, noes and I once had y belly button pierced.  But to take care of them just make shure you keep it clean, soak it in sea salt, move it around a little bit each day to make shure your skin isn't going to grow on to it.  And if anythng seems wrong call your piercer.  I am planning on getting more piercings later on so that is why I know how to take care of them.
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its not that bad ive had both, but dont not under any circumstances do it your self, you could get a really bad infection, go to a tatoo parlor to get it done. besides the needles they use a different, theyre hollow so it cuts a plug of skin out  and it heals all the way around, other needles just make a dull hole and it wont heal.
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Does it hurt?\nYes - this varies with many different things such as how good your piercer is and how relaxed you are to how 'deep' the piercer chooses to place the bar. Try and talk to them throughly beforehand, it is mix of your preference (close to the front or roof of the mouth) and your piercer's experience. Avoid going to close to the front, can affect your teeth and speech and in rare cases even 'grow' out.\nWould you recommend getting it done or not?\nYes - the fact that you're even asking this question shows you're interested. Its fun. If you're worried how others will perceive you then maybe you shouldn't. I had my tongue bar for 5 years before taking it out (9 years with an eyebrow bar and still counting) and got a lot of enjoyment from it. Personally, i had ABSOLUTELY no problems with it, and having worked in a piercing parlour, i can also tell you major problems are rare and you generally have to be fairly reckless with your decisions.\n\nDO NOT believe half these responses. By in large they are a bunch of urban myths. Tongue bars DO NOT cause cancer, i mean really, really, think about it. It is stainless steel, not a degradable metal, did your parents tell you that? Ha! If you smoke, there are VERY mixed reports on the potential of mouth cancer with an exposed area of your tongue, again MYTH. If you smoke, you generally should avoid to while it heals. After the initial day or two, you are no more likely to get CANCER with or without it. I can't even bother to respond to some of the answers here, they're mostly far fetched nonsense. Some people can have teeth issues, but only if they're reckless and play with it in their mouths too much (generally a developed bad habit). Again, think about it, if you play with a chunk of metal OF COURSE it COULD damage your teeth. Simply ignore it, if you 'roll' it over your teeth, stop. Common sense will always win.\n\nOne other one i had to answer too... If you remove your tongue bar it will NOT "heal over instantly"... When you first get it, yes you cannot remove it for 1-2 weeks. I could remove it for well over a week at a time, and probobly longer if i wanted, with absolutely no problems.\n\nAnother one - DO NOT USE plastic tongue bars. Stupid, stupid thing to do. These will cause more problems than any normal piercing ever would. I haven't heard of any horror stories first hand, but i'm aware of them breaking, and sharp plastic in your mouth is never good. Again, COMMON SENSE.\n\nMake a sensible decision on your own. If you have any concerns over the myths then feel free to email me. I took it out for my own personal reasons, but really, just because i became bored of it. But for 5 years, it was fun and a great talking point to new people you haven't met before. I still have many new friends that all began with "Did that hurt?!!?". All in all great fun, but a decision you should weigh in your mind, and always use common sense and a reputable piercer.