This is probably TMI for some of you. Suck it up.
On a whim this Sunday I had my nipples re-pierced. (NSFW image.) If you're not in the loop, I had them previously pierced on Halloween in 2004 and kept them for a year and a half before giving up on them ever healing (see bottom of the post).
They've been out for two years, and I missed them despite the grief they caused me. Since then, I've always been secretly jealous of anyone who has them. Well, if at first you don't succeed, try and try again, right?
A number of things have changed with my life and with my body in the past two years, and that's enough for me to give it one more shot:
I've been on Citalopram (Celexa) since approximately March 2006 (3 months after I removed my jewelry) and my mental state has improved considerably-- no more constant level of anxiety, no more panic attacks, no more depressive episodes. Yay!
I've also been off hormonal birth control since the fall of 2006, when I had an IUD inserted. This has led to a number of subtle physical changes in my body, most noticeably my breasts.
I'm also in a better place, minus the stress of school and a job I didn't enjoy.
The straw that broke the camel's tit... err, back was Sunday's "Ladies Rope Club" at the Harbor Steps apartment. A friend of mine has such gorgeous piercings and I could see them through her shirt (hot!). I was just insanely jealous so I said to myself, "You know what? It's time." And the first thing I did after I got home was head over to Deep Roots int he U District with Justin and had it done.
I wanted to use my own jewelry since I had both the barbells I was pierced with and the rings I'd swapped to, but I wasn't able to. The parlor was perfectly willing to sterilize and re-pierce with jewelry, but not in the size I had. I'd been pierced with 14-gauge jewelry and the smallest they use for nipples is one size larger, 12 gauge. This isn't uncommon and I wasn't really surprised. The smaller gauge may have been one of the reasons I had trouble healing in the first place (though it seems like a slight difference) so I bought some new jewelry.
The piercings are doing well, but it's too soon to say whether it will work this time around. I didn't have much scarring from my last attempt even though I was sure I would, so worst case scenario I'll just remove these if they don't figure out their shit in 6 to 9 months.
Wish me luck!
Posted on March 18, 2008 @ 11:19 AM | 1 comments
On a whim this Sunday I had my nipples re-pierced. (NSFW image.) If you're not in the loop, I had them previously pierced on Halloween in 2004 and kept them for a year and a half before giving up on them ever healing (see bottom of the post).
They've been out for two years, and I missed them despite the grief they caused me. Since then, I've always been secretly jealous of anyone who has them. Well, if at first you don't succeed, try and try again, right?
A number of things have changed with my life and with my body in the past two years, and that's enough for me to give it one more shot:
I've been on Citalopram (Celexa) since approximately March 2006 (3 months after I removed my jewelry) and my mental state has improved considerably-- no more constant level of anxiety, no more panic attacks, no more depressive episodes. Yay!
I've also been off hormonal birth control since the fall of 2006, when I had an IUD inserted. This has led to a number of subtle physical changes in my body, most noticeably my breasts.
I'm also in a better place, minus the stress of school and a job I didn't enjoy.
The straw that broke the camel's tit... err, back was Sunday's "Ladies Rope Club" at the Harbor Steps apartment. A friend of mine has such gorgeous piercings and I could see them through her shirt (hot!). I was just insanely jealous so I said to myself, "You know what? It's time." And the first thing I did after I got home was head over to Deep Roots int he U District with Justin and had it done.
I wanted to use my own jewelry since I had both the barbells I was pierced with and the rings I'd swapped to, but I wasn't able to. The parlor was perfectly willing to sterilize and re-pierce with jewelry, but not in the size I had. I'd been pierced with 14-gauge jewelry and the smallest they use for nipples is one size larger, 12 gauge. This isn't uncommon and I wasn't really surprised. The smaller gauge may have been one of the reasons I had trouble healing in the first place (though it seems like a slight difference) so I bought some new jewelry.
The piercings are doing well, but it's too soon to say whether it will work this time around. I didn't have much scarring from my last attempt even though I was sure I would, so worst case scenario I'll just remove these if they don't figure out their shit in 6 to 9 months.
Wish me luck!
Posted on March 18, 2008 @ 11:19 AM | 1 comments
Comments:
Yay Kat! My best friend has a (just one) beautiful (14-gauge) nipple piercing as well. I hope yours work out!
I actually had my belly button repierced after the first one refused to heal and then got infected when I was in Spain 6 months later. The second time was a charm--still perfectly healed almost 6 years later.
Good luck!
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AmandaLin, at
12:56 PM, March 18, 2008
