I've already submitted my inverse navel piercing story, so why am I doing it again? Well it rejected. Not by anything I did, but my boy kept hitting it repeatedly and it decided to reject. It wasn't painful physically, but it was mentally. I hate losing piercings! That happened in February and I cussed the boy out for it. I told him not to touch and he wouldn't listen!
At A Glance Author bluedevils_hhs Contact bluedevils_hhs@bme.anon When A month ago Artist Alesia Moody Studio Earth & Sky Tattoo Co. Location Colonial Heights, VA Fast forward to June and I'd been waiting to repierce it. My birthday happened to fall on Father's Day, June 19, and I was turning 19! Since I figured the shop I now go to was closed for Father's Day I decided to wait until the next day to be pierced. My mom was going to pay for my piercings, and that was a bit unusual because she wasn't too fond of my piercings at that point. (She is now, and suggested I get my septum pierced, but I'm not too keen on that for myself.)
We drove down to the shop and I was nervous. I had a lot of scar tissue. I have been pierced through scar tissue with my standard navel but it was much softer than my inverse scar tissue. My mom paid while I signed the papers saying that I was allowing them to pierce me.
Alesia noted that my standard navel was shallow. It wasn't pierced like that, but it had its problems while healing, and had moved to be shallow, but it's in there and it's not moving. I just can't wear heavy or long jewelry in my standard. I may take it out and allow it to be repierced, but I don't know yet. I was also getting my lobe done in the middle on the left side also.
So on to getting my inverse navel repierced! I opted to do the inverse first, because I like to get the pain over with and move on to something that won't hurt as much.
I didn't want my mom to watch me be pierced because she always makes me very nervous for some reason. Nevertheless, she insisted so I let her. My mom mentioned I had a bunch of scar tissue there and Alesia noted the same. She had everything set up and told me to lie down. I like to be able to look at my piercing being done, but no luck this time and lay down.
I undid my button on my pants and took a deep breath. I was clamped and was that ever uncomfy! The first time a clamp has ever been that uncomfy for me. I finally understood what people meant when they say that was the most painful part of the piercing. It was pinching my scar tissue and I felt like it wanted to just pop on out of there. She then lined up the needle, I wasn't marked, but I still had the entrance and exit marks on my scar from the last piercing (I'm just lucky I guess) and she pushed.
It hurt! I won't lie. It hurt! I grabbed my stomach not only because it hurt, but also because I began my immediate itch. I start itching when I'm pierced and I was itching like crazy. I guess it's to take my mind off the pain I'm in, but I wanted to scratch so badly and couldn't so I had to content myself with digging my nails into my stomach.
She slipped in the barbell, which didn't hurt, and then let the clamps go. My mom started laughing about the nail marks and I informed her that I itch whenever I get pierced and obviously couldn't scratch or I'd get in her way. She must have forgotten about that part. (She was with me when I got my cartilage pierced the first time and my left side of my face started to itch like crazy.)
I sat up and scratched my stomach around the piercing to help draw off the pain I was feeling. It works amazingly well to put pain somewhere else to take your mind off the real pain, and scratching can feel good and be a pain at the same time.
I got my lobe pierced and oddly enough that was painful more so than the others were. However, it wasn't anything to jump at, though my mom thought I was. It's such a simple procedure.
We went to dinner and I ate with my pants undone so that I wouldn't squish it. It was itching like mad though.
It's been almost a month since it's been repierced and the swelling took forever to go down. I've been cleaning it in the shower, not touching it, not letting the boy touch it or go near it, and sea salt soaks. It's looking fine and I think I have a higher possibility of it staying with the scar tissue. Only time will tell.