After many years, I've finally gotten a PA. It's on it 5th day and seems to be healing nicely. My original intent was to go and have an ear ring stretched to a larger gauge. Yeah, right.... Hey. it's my story and all that.
At A Glance Author cfrog Contact cfrog@bme.anon When A month ago Artist Bethra Studio Virtue And Vice Location Atlanta, GA I hadn't really done any research on it so I wasn't sure I was going to get the PA. I got to "Virtue and Vice" here in Atlanta and started asking the piercer that was stretching my earlobe about the PA's. It didn't take long to convince me to go ahead and get it done. I just wish I could remember her name though, Bethra Zumisky? She did such a good job.
After going back out and redoing the paperwork, we went back in and she had me lay back on the piercing table. She took some measurements and made the placement marks and started explaining what she was doing. At this point the autoclave went "DING" and I started having flash backs about my nipple piercings. Which hurt...Like hell.... Important Note To Self: Angry, drunken girlfriends do not go well with new piercings. But that's another tale.
She talked me through what she was doing and what to expect. The receiving tube wasn't too bad as I've done sound play before, more a sensation of "wrong" than pain. She told me to take three deep breaths and exhale slowly. On the third breath she pushed the needle through quickly. Just a _really_ sharp jabbing pain. The gauging it up to 8 gauge actually hurt more. A few more seconds and I was ready to see a nice big chunk of stainless steel dangling from my "Happy Parts".
Bethra (I just found the card) said "There you go. A nice eight gauge PA" and pointed me toward a mirror. It was a strange sensation seeing the Captive Ball Ring dangling from the end of my urethra and mysteriously disappearing into the shaft. She wrapped sterile pads around my penis and put a glove on over it, securing it loosely with a rubber band. She also warned me that there would be some bleeding.
After the drive home I drank a lot of water and waited until I had to piss. After unwrapping the 'package', the bleeding had been no worse than a bad nosebleed. I was either lucky or she had done a really good job at placing the exit, but that was the only serious bleed that happened. There was some spotting in the morning, but that was the last that I saw of any blood.
The first piss was as advertised. Kind of a burning, pissing broken glass type of pain. There was minimal bleeding after the first few hours. Right now (day 5) it's more of an itchy feeling or an occasional pinching/pain sensation when the ring gets twisted in clothing.
Now the only problem is that I let my nipples close up and now want to get them done again. Oh well.
Three week update:
At 6 to 7 days, the PA was really tender and prone to tugging. Boxer briefs are NOT the underwear to wear. I work in an office and would be sitting in meetings with the rest of us old folks and when I'd move, I'd discover that the 8 gauge ring would have worked it's way down the underwear leg and would catch as I moved.
Solution? I found that making a nest of toilet paper in my underwear would hold the ring and penis head in a comfortable position. This had an added advantage of keeping the crusties soaked up. I figure that it's probably no worse than clean underwear as far as sterility.
By week two, it was comfortable except when I would bang it accidentally. And yes, sex is possible at two weeks, but it wasn't completely comfortable.
It's now week three and I can piss at urinals without any problems by rotating the head of the penis so that the ring body is above the opening of the urethra. And anyway, I can always piss on my neighbors feet if I feel lazy.
The only drawback that I can see is the cost.
I wandered in and got a 12 gauge lobe piercing today to go with the 10 gauge ring already there. All I wanted when I went in was information about how long to wait before starting stretching it. Plus, the nipples are now on the agenda (I sort of dread that, I've had it done once in a previous life and it still sticks in my memory). Add that to the tribal lizard getting ready to be going down my leg to match the realistic lizard on the other leg (Timeless Tattoos, right next door, previous life) and the price keeps rising.
Yes, it really IS addicting!