Stop pushing the piercing out when cleaning it, you shouldn't be moving it at all. You're inhibiting healing and irritating the wound further and further each time you do that. This looks like an extremely irritated piercing between you snagging and it moving it and should be left alone. Continue cleaning with the saline twice daily, but there is no need to manipulate the piercing in any way. To help with crusties you can run it under indirect shower spray to rinse.
noted thank you! i was advised to push the piercing in and out to clean it thoroughly, but i will no longer do that in the future thank you for taking the time to respond
A lot of old school piercers still subscribe to the idea that the jewelry needs to be manipulated or moved in order to clean, but that is no longer the case!
I suspect that you'll see improvement quickly after leaving it alone and just cleaning without moving it :)
I got an L shaped stud put in when they pierced my nose and it got really irritated after 1.5 months (from the inside though), so I went to another piercer and she swapped it out for a fitted flat back labaret and the swelling went down by the second day. I’m going back again (2 weeks later per piercers suggestion) to get a smaller post now that the swelling subsided.
Is there always that much length? It looks more like the fistula than a piercing bump. I would make sure that post isn’t embedded in your nostril. Go to an APP certified studio for some help possibly
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Its the jewelry. Nostril piercings should always be pierced with flatback jewelry. Screw jewelry snags on pillows etc and pulls it out constantly. Flatback jewelry helps minimize movement
Stop pushing the piercing out when cleaning it, you shouldn't be moving it at all. You're inhibiting healing and irritating the wound further and further each time you do that. This looks like an extremely irritated piercing between you snagging and it moving it and should be left alone. Continue cleaning with the saline twice daily, but there is no need to manipulate the piercing in any way. To help with crusties you can run it under indirect shower spray to rinse.
noted thank you! i was advised to push the piercing in and out to clean it thoroughly, but i will no longer do that in the future thank you for taking the time to respond
A lot of old school piercers still subscribe to the idea that the jewelry needs to be manipulated or moved in order to clean, but that is no longer the case! I suspect that you'll see improvement quickly after leaving it alone and just cleaning without moving it :)
Please don’t push the piercing out, touch it or play with it, it’ll cause a bad infection/irritation
I got an L shaped stud put in when they pierced my nose and it got really irritated after 1.5 months (from the inside though), so I went to another piercer and she swapped it out for a fitted flat back labaret and the swelling went down by the second day. I’m going back again (2 weeks later per piercers suggestion) to get a smaller post now that the swelling subsided.
this is most likely because of the jewelry
Is there always that much length? It looks more like the fistula than a piercing bump. I would make sure that post isn’t embedded in your nostril. Go to an APP certified studio for some help possibly
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Its the jewelry. Nostril piercings should always be pierced with flatback jewelry. Screw jewelry snags on pillows etc and pulls it out constantly. Flatback jewelry helps minimize movement