O.K. to start the story, for the longest time I didn't think I'd ever be able to have any piercings. I have a metal allergy, probably nickel, although I've never been tested to get the specifics. I basically tried to have my ears pierced my whole life, and kept abandoning them due to the itching and crusting. Then when my daughter was 2 and i took her to get her ears pierced, the girls in the shop had some facial piercings. I told them my problem and they suggested titanium or niobium. They had titanium studs for sale, so i bought a pair to try. Much to my delight I had finally found some jewelry I could wear. I had been so jealous when people started showing up with facial piercings, and now i could finally get one! I went ahead and got the right side of my lower lip pierced in february, and all went well. I started toying with the idea of the outer labia piercing, and decided I wanted to get it for my birthday, june 28.
At A Glance Author Nessa Contact Nessa@bme.anon When A week ago Artist Kristin Smith Studio Metamorphosis Location Broad Ripple, Indiana When i went for my annual pap it came back abnormal, and my doctor discovered that i had contracted HPV or genital warts. She gave me a script for some cream and said if it didn't take care of them she would either have to burn them off in the office or send me to have them lasered off. YIKES!! Obviously my pretty piercings would have to wait till this problem was taken care of. Since my pap was abnormal and the HPV combined with a family history of cervical cancer (my mother had it before she got pregnant with me) made me "high risk" my doc wanted to do a colposcopy, which is a viewing under a kind of microscope, with a biopsy. She told me we were looking at one of three possibilities: (1) she would just need to keep an eye on it with frequent follow up paps; (2) the abnormal cells would be located where she could freeze them off in the office; (3) she would have to refer me to another doc to do a procedure called a LEEP(loop electrosurgical excision procedure). I was fr eaked out. Seriously. I was planning on getting pregnant next year (2003), and now i might have to have surgery on my cervix??
Since I've always been notoriously difficult in my life so far, I, of course had to have the LEEP. Imagine an electrified cheese cutter (you know, the little wire?). Well that's what i had to have done. It was scheduled for the monday before my birthday,which fell on a friday this year. I was petrified. Would it come back as being cancer? Would they get it all with the first surgery? They did! When i called the office a week after the procedure i was told that the results were "good". I was ecstatic. My girlie parts were going to be ok. In the meantime i had been using the cream prescribed and all my warts vanished! I was finally ready to "decorate my junk".
I got the piercing itself done kind of on the spur of the moment. It was payday and about 5:30 in the afternoon. I called the same place where I got my lip done to see if they recommended an appointment. They did. I scheduled for 8p.m. that night. Feeling pretty lucky to have been able to get in the same day, I went home showered, shaved my pubic area (which i do on a regular basis) put on baggy shorts and I was off to get pierced. My boyfriend of 22 months took me. I was so excited.
We arrived at the shop and I told the person working the counter that i had an appointment. I handed over my I.D. and they handed me the paperwork. My piercer, Kristin, came out and asked what kind of jewelry I wanted. I told her i needed titanium and was thinking to go with the 10g CBRs. She said that would be good and we would measure and most likely go with the 5/8's rings. They looked good to me. Now to pick my colors and beads. I decided on a purple ring for my left labia, and a green one for my right. After looking at all the beads I couldn't find ones I liked well enough to adorn my lower lips. She showed me some beads that had just come in. There were the most beautiful painted glass beads, with flowers on the inside. These were them. I picked a kind of periwinkle one to go with the purple, and a sparkly brownish one with green in it to go with the green. Now i just had to wait for her to get the room ready. I wasn't really nervous, just excited. It really hadn't be en that long but it felt like I'd had to wait forever.
Kristin came out to get me, and my boyfriend went along. First she asked if I had any other genital piercings to which I replied in the negative. She followed with the whole aftercare procedures thing, which seemed pretty much like my lip ring without all the mouthwash. Then it was time to drop my drawers. I didn't feel shy at all by this point with how many people had been peering between my legs recently. They have a big padded table at Metamorphosis, and it's really comfy. I laid with my legs kind of hanging off and my head in the middle of the table. Kristin cleaned and disinfected. She measured and had some slightly disappointing news. My right labia didn't hang down the way my left one did and it would be more difficult to heal, if I decided to go through with it. She tried to talk me into getting them both on my left labia, but i had my heart set on one on each side. Kristin said it was no problem, totally my decision. So she marked and had me check with a hand mirror . They looked perfect. Kristin clamped me and told me to tell her if it hurt or was too uncomfortable. It felt fine. She was ready, I was ready. She told me to take a deep breath and she would do it when i exhaled. Inhale,exhale, WHOLLY SHIT!!! That hurt, but i didn't make a peep.She followed thru with the jewelry which didn't hurt a bit. I was so proud of myself. I said something about "Wow" and she told me that it was one of the more intense piercings and i did really well. She changed gloves for what was about the 3rd time in the whole process and clamped the right labia. Same as before, inhale,exhale,OHMYFUCKINGGOD!!! That was quite a bit worse, seeing as how she had to go thru more flesh to do the right one. In with the jewelry and it was all finished.I had bled a bit so she cleaned me up and I took a look with the hand mirror.My boyfriend got up and came over to have a look too. They looked great. I was so happy. She put some gauze on me for any more bleeding on the w ay home, and told me to just put on a pantyliner for any more bleeding . Kristin said if anything was bothering me or didn't seem right with the new piercings just come in and see her. She cleaned up the table, mirror and tray table and we followed her out to the counter. She gave me a bag of sea salt with a small cup and a bottle of satin soap. I paid her, thanked her and we were off. I did waddle a bit, and i could feel the gauze rubbing against each other but no pain. I've had them for a week now and the bruising is completely gone, and I have very little discomfort. Only when they get twisted wrong. I clean them in the morning and give them a nice salt water soak in the evening before i clean them again. I absolutely love them. I would recommend to anyone thinking about these to just go for it. Now..... what to get pierced next? Hee Hee Hee.