Belly-Button Piercings

[KDbeads]

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Uh, I'm allergic to surgical steel. Did you know that nickle is actually allowed in surgical implant grade steel??? Well I didn't know until my ears that were FOUR YEARS OLD and had previously been fully healed, suddenly started itching, bleeding, etc. and they closed up on me when I took the jewelry out to sleep. You can develop allergies after time.

Yep, surgical steel is not entirely bio-inert. Titanium is. Hence the reason it's is what's used in hip joint, knee joint replacements, rods, pins, plates, screws.......

 

[silkiechicken]

Ouch.... good luck and don't get a bad infection. Took about 4 years for my ear piercings to heal... and they still give me grief 6 years later. But go figure... took my mom about 15 years for her ear ring holes to heal up and not cause problems even with inert metals and such.

 

[pinkchick]

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No joke! Or it gets caught in your belt buckle when standing up. OHhhhhhh man that smarts!

I had mine done the first time several years ago and within a couple of weeks I had taken it out and let it heal. It was just awful. After almost a year I decided to have it redone. SMACK that hurt! Piercing right through the scar tissue of the first one.....I don't know what I thinking. Maybe I wasn't?

I have taken it out several times now over the years now since I have had it repierced but the darn thing never closes. A month later I can put a bobble back in it no problem.

Bactine spray was my friend for a very long time as I was so afraid the second piercing would infect like the first.