#i can’t remember if it’s steel or titanium but it’s surgical grade aka the same kind as when you get a screw in your leg for example

[steviescrystals]

SO fucking sick of my nose piercing being infected for no reason literally what am i doing wrong!!!

#first of all it’s not a new piercing i’ve had it since 2021 #and it healed PERFECTLY like zero swelling zero blood nothing besides the tiniest bit of redness for like 2 days #so i had a stud in for 2 years with absolutely no issues and then like 6 months ago i switched it out for a ring #didn’t have any issues with that either for the first couple months then i got lazy with cleaning it and it got lowkey swollen and gross #so i went to my piercer for a check in and he said it was totally fine i just needed to be better about cleaning it regularly #and he was right it was back to normal within a few days so i’ve kept up with the cleaning ever since #(and i know cleaning it TOO much can also cause problems but i don’t think i am i’m just following his instructions) #anyway it randomly got way more swollen and disgusting like 2 weeks ago out of nowhere #tmi but it started leaking pus 🤢 so i was like okay this shits infected #but my piercing place is like 30 minutes away and i didn’t want to drive all the way there over potentially nothing like last time #so i’ve been putting neosporin on it a couple times a day which helped a ton for the first few days #and now it’s suddenly just all over the place like one day it’ll almost look back to normal and the next it’s swelled way up again #ALSO i got the other side of my nose pierced the same day i got the ring and i have a stud on that side and it’s been completely fine #just like this one was when i had a stud in it so it’s literally the ring but WHY #i bought both studs and the ring at my piercing place and they’re all the same kind of metal #i can’t remember if it’s steel or titanium but it’s surgical grade aka the same kind as when you get a screw in your leg for example #so it’s high quality and it’s designed to be in the body so it’s less likely to get rejected #SO WHAT IS THE PROBLEM SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME #lj.txt