I had wanted a guiche for some time. I already had a "0" gauge PA, a 2gauge frenum, 2 10 gauge frenums, and a 10 gauge lorum, all self done. When I started considering a guiche, I felt I needed to have someone else do it, as it would be impossible to see it well enough to do it.

However, being one of the two piercers in our area, and with the other less experienced than myself, I decided to go for it. I prepared the room, removed everything from the autoclave, and cleaned the area to be pierced throughly with betadine. Then came the hard part - with the aid of lighting and mirrors on the floor, I carefully marked, then attached the forcepts. I then, using a 12 gauge piercing needle, pushed it through - wait - it's not through - push harder - its still not through - harder - I knew I should have used a needle pusher - harder - and finally it's through. Really not very painful at all - but my practice board from Gaunlet with cowhide was easier to pierce!

I then butted a 12 ga x 5/8 CBR to the end of the needle, and dlid it through. The ball was about as tricky as the piercing, but I finally got it through! I picked up a hand mirror, held it up to get a close look, and there it was - my beautiful. TOTALLY CROOKED guiche! It went neither side to side, or front to back - it was inbetween.

After suffering with the soreness of it, and the crookedness of it, I decided to change from a CBR to a curved barbell. Big Mistake - I choose too short of a barbell, and just could not get the ball on without seeing it. So I threw in the towel, and took it out.

Last week, after considering where I went wrong, I went for it again. This time I used a 10 needle, with a needle pusher - it was tough, but went through on the first try. I used a 10 to provide a little more playing room for the 12 ga x 3/4" curved barbell I was going to insert, in case I lost connection. I choose a curved barbell since I sit a lot at work, and the previous time I was pierced the CBR seemed unusually uncomfortable. I also used sponge forcepts the second time so I could keep the forcepts attached while I pushed the barbell on and secured the ball. Finally - a well planned success! I removed the forcepts, wiped away a small ammount of blood with a sterile wipe, grabbed the hand mirror and - - - PERFECT! Success was mine! The new piercing was pretty sore (but not by any means unbearably so), for the first couple of days, but was noticebly better by the third. At one week, I can already tell the curved barbell is going to be easier to cope with while stting that the CBR. Once again, I want to say I could not believe how little pain I encountered with either piercing.

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