I first had my tongue pierced a few years ago...the experience was not painful at all. I had expected it to hurt like a bitch when he did it, but I felt only a little pressure...the guy who did it, well hee didn't tell me a darn thing about what I should or shouldn't do after recieving the piercing. I knew nothing of putting ice on it or drinking extremely cold ice water through a straw if the sweeling got terrible. The only thing I knew I need to do was get some Listerine mouthwash and gargle with it almost constantly. Well needless to say my tongue was severly swollen with in four ours of having the piercing done. It hurt like hell, constantly throbbing...and hey I am no wuss when it comes to pain, most often I get a kick out of the pain. This was sheer agony for over two weeks...then gradualy the swelling subsided, but it was still very tender for another two weeks. After this intial period of horendous pain...well hey I was digging the piercing cause hey I had this nifty new little toy right there in my mouth...the guys seemes to like it too.
At A Glance Author cutetattooedgurl Contact doorsfan4u@hotmail.com Artist hmmm didn't catch his name Studio 360 Blues Location Arlington, TX I had the piercing for well over a year...then BAM!!! I turned up preggers...I had terrible nausea and morning sickness, if you can even call it that...I puked morning, noon, and night. Needless to say, I eventually took the barbell out...it was just too much with all the puking and such. It only took the thing like maybe five hours to completely heal and close up. I still had a terrific scar in the middle of my tonge though, and this nasty looking little bulge on the underside of my tongue. Several months went by and eventually I got over the nausea and morning sickness, suddenly I was wishing that I hadn't taken the damn thing out. I mean I had went through so much hell to get it and all. I decided that sometime after I had my son I would have to get it redone, but definitely by the same asshole as before.
This past December 6th...my girlfriend and I were out shopping, she too had taken her barbell out while pregnant. We talked it over and both decided that we would pierce one anothers tongues as Christmas gifts. While in the mall at Hot Topic we asked one of the pierced and tattooed freaks (and no the word freak is not a derogatory remark) where the nearest tattoo studio was. He gave us some whacked out directions and with my shitty sense of direction we ended up in Arlington. My girfriend knew of a tattoo studio to got to, she had gotten both of her tats there...so we headed on over to 360 Blues.
We walked into the place and I immediately got the chills thinkg about what I was fixing to do...I wasn't sure if I wanted to go through with it...the whole swelling thing was getting to me. Needless to say I was ready to turn tail and run...but alas, I did not. We filled out the paperwork...yipppeeee all piercings were on sale for $30. I made my girlfriend go first...she said it hurt a bit...and she bled too. The guy said it was because of scar tissue. Anyway I was up, my heart was racing...the moment of truth...he stuck me and DAMN......it hurt like a bitch, all I said was "ohhhhhh". The guy laughed at me...I guess he thought I was going to scream or something. I bled a little at that point, not too much...it did make me feel a little light headed so he made me sit for a minute. He went over everything to do and not to do...we stopped on the way home, bought huge glasses of ice water and listerine from a gay asian guy running this Texaco...
By the time we got home it was a little swollen and sore but nothing like before...I decided to hit the sack and see how it felt in the morning. The next day I woke up feeling fine...hardly sore at all...a dull ache really....and amazingly no swelling...I was overjoyed. So now I have my nifty little toy back and it wasn't even that terrible to get it. I had some problems for the first few days getting used to something being in my mouth again. The talking and eating process was something to lear all over again. In the end it worked out great, my boyfriend loved it, my girlfriend loved it. I loved it...ohhhhh yeah and my son thinks it is sooooooo cool that mommy has that pretty silver thing in her mouth. He constantly tried to pull it out and play with it...hmmmmmmm, I wonder if he is gunna be just like mommy and love all things body art??