Nipple Piercing new ring - new pain.

Hi

I've had my nipple pierced for 18 months and thankfully it's healed
well. After starting at a 12mm barbell, it had to be changed out to a
16mm during the healing as it seemed to grow.

We've tried a sheild and found they are fun for a while, but painful
to wear for the longer term.

Wanting a change from the barbell I've bought a 1.6 stainless steel
ring, which was no problem to change and moves freely.

Two days on though and it's quite painful in both the piercing and
breast, although not continually. I have sea salted it, and I'm loathe
to change it back to a barbell at the moment.

Any ideas at all?

Cheers
Suz

On Oct 8, 6:47 pm, Purple Ferrets <s...@lazy-ferret.globalnet.co.uk>
wrote:

lf> I've had my nipple pierced for 18 months . . .
lf> 12mm barbell, it had to be changed out to a
lf> 16mm

lf> Wanting a change from the barbell I've bought a 1.6 stainless
steel
lf> ring,

lf> Any ideas at all?

Yeah, 1.6 (14 gauge) is too small of a gauge.


Kavin

Purple Ferrets wrote:

> Wanting a change from the barbell I've bought a 1.6 stainless steel
> ring, which was no problem to change and moves freely.

What diameter? Chances are it's too small, and that's putting strain on
the piercing (you're bending the canal that was straight before). No
more than 25% of the ring should be inside the piercing canal, so the
diameter you'd need is somewhere around 20-22 mm.
And yes, 14 ga/1.6 mm is too thin especially if you want to play with
the piercing.

The quality of the jewelry could be an issue as well.

> Two days on though and it's quite painful in both the piercing and
> breast, although not continually. I have sea salted it, and I'm loathe
> to change it back to a barbell at the moment.
>
> Any ideas at all?

Uh, change it back to the barbell? And get the other nipple pierced too,
unless you like being lopsided :P

Nina
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