so has anyone here done any peircings on their own?

[ceriux]

just wondering because i peirced my lip last night and today i looked at the hole on the inside of my lip and the hole is green, is it because of the metal from the pin?

 

[zeus9860]

****, i hate piercings. Anyways its an infection you got there probably, if not then your eyes are messing with you or it could also be the metal's effect from the pin

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

So you were sitting around and decided to pierce your lip without doing any research? Were you high?

Oh wait. Stupid question.

 

[ceriux]

lol thats prolly the problem man havnt been high in awhile got a drug test to pass so i can go to school -.- =(

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

just wondering because i peirced my lip last night and today i looked at the hole on the inside of my lip and the hole is green, is it because of the metal from the pin?

Dude, really, you are not supposed to do crap like that yourself. You should really go see a doctor if a part of your lip is green.

 

[Thothie]

Speaking as someone who knows folks who do this professionally, and see this stupid sh*t all the time, I can tell you:
It's infected. Go to the hospital. You could lose your jaw.

U sirius? I sirius.

 

[ceriux]

lol ima wait 1 more day and see how it goes, its not very painful or even swelled that bad. if it gets worse ill take out the pin and cut my lip open and swab the shit out of it with alchohol...

 

[Blasto121]

if its green I would question the metal you used, as you might have an allergic reaction to is. I know that certain metals will change the color of your skin tone.

I also know that some are not all that great for piercing.

 

[ceriux]

im assuming that might actually be it, for 1 it was really easy to bend, and two it was one of those sewing pins used to hold stuff in place, one of the ones with a little plastic ball at the end?

 

[Dridmar]

Did you try to sterilize it at all?

 

[Thothie]

Red irritation indicates a metal allergy or metallic impurities. White, if yer REALLY alergic, and break out in hives. Green, unless yer using rusty copper, is a heavy bacterial infection. If it's been left alone for a full day or you slept on it, there's a good chance it's gotten into the bone behind the lip - and that won't show up for a few days more still - when it'll hit a nerv and hurt like hell. If that is the case, and it doesn't immediately respond to anti-biotics (which such infections almost never do), odds are they'll have to break open your jaw or skull to extract it, and wire said bone back together. These infections tend not to hurt when on the outer skin when either the nerve has died or the bacteria is of the type that eats nerves last.

So, waiting for Obama's health care plan to pass, for all the good it'll do you, is not an option.

 

[ceriux]

Red irritation indicates a metal allergy or metallic impurities. White, if yer REALLY alergic, and break out in hives. Green, unless yer using rusty copper, is a heavy bacterial infection. If it's been left alone for a full day or you slept on it, there's a good chance it's gotten into the bone behind the lip - and that won't show up for a few days more still - when it'll hit a nerv and hurt like hell. If that is the case, and it doesn't immediately respond to anti-biotics (which such infections almost never do), odds are they'll have to break open your jaw or skull to extract it, and wire said bone back together. These infections tend not to hurt when on the outer skin when either the nerve has died or the bacteria is of the type that eats nerves last.

So, waiting for Obama's health care plan to pass, for all the good it'll do you, is not an option.

i attempted to give myself a tattoo once, now i have holes in the side of my leg the shape of J and U xD

but any ways. wouldnt i notice a change or difference if it got any worse ?
( oh and i did sleep on it ) but its still only the flesh on the opening of the wound on the inside of my lip, not on the out side where its dry. iv been told that putting fake metal on for too long or showering with it on also makes your skin/flesh turn green? or am i wrong?

also, i cant go to the hospitol i have no health insurance already. if it comes down to it ill just cut that chunck out of my lip on the inside... no one will see it and it'll only hurt while im cutting it out and be pretty sore afterwards but better than loosing my jaw =)

also, this mentions nothing of what you said except for red and pain, and if no pain some kind of puss neither of which i have. : http://www.bme.com/news/edit/A10311/artinfec.html

 

[Dridmar]

Ceriux, in the future whenever you're thinking of doing something like this, start a thread and we'll help you decide if it's a good idea or not.

 

[ceriux]

hehe its no fun then =/

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

better than loosing my jaw =)

Also, what made you think that posting on a forum for a mod of a video game would be the best source of input on this sort of information? Really, are you sure you're not high? Or did you smoke too much for far too long?

 

[ceriux]

well i figured. that people who have lived and done things might know a little bit. so its nice to get input. so need to be a prick lol xD

 

[Thothie]

Just cuz it don't hurt don't mean it ain't infected - quite the opposite. A green discharge should be enough sign that something ain't right. These things often tunnel along blood vessels in weird ways, so it may go up and over some place without visibly going through the lip, and if you have a lot of this puss, it is a sign that it is doing just that.

Go to the emergency room. They have to treat you there, insurance or neigh, thanks to international law (this is also why a lot of hospitals have no emergency rooms). You might have to wait around awhile, but you may meet some interesting folks and hot nurses in the meantime. They'll probably give you a prescription for some anti-biotics, which you will have to pay for, but it'll be a hell of a lot cheaper than the pot that left you thinking this was a good idea in your withdrawals (plus, IIRC, yer young enough that this is the sort of thing your folks will pay for).

If you wait until you come down with a fever, you are f*cked.

better than loosing my jaw =)

Also, what made you think that posting on a forum for a mod of a video game would be the best source of input on this sort of information? Really, are you sure you're not high? Or did you smoke too much for far too long?

You know you're in trouble when "the magical bong of death" thinks maybe you've done too many drugs.

 

[ceriux]

thats the thing i have no puss, no discharge what so ever. no redness no soarness other than well i stabbed a hole through my lip. no issues no sickness feel normal. been over 24 hours. i say after tommarow if there's no issues other than my skin is a little bit green where the needle is its the metal. if i start to feel ill. i have a problem. iv seen "green" infected cuts and what not before. looked completely different.

nvm oh well i guess... if it was the metal then ill just re pierce it after it heals back up... if the green doesnt go away im going to pour bleach on it and if the bleach doesnt kill it, then im going to cut it out... oh well -.-

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

nvm oh well i guess... if it was the metal then ill just re pierce it after it heals back up... if the green doesnt go away im going to pour bleach on it and if the bleach doesnt kill it, then im going to cut it out... oh well -.-

Ceriux, "just re piercing it" is (no offense intended) really a dumb thing to do. You should consider letting a professional stab oddly shaped metal objects through your lip, if you really want to have such things.

Not to mention you should really go to a doctor rather than consider cutting open your own lip only to fill it with alcohol/bleach/turpentine/mercury/pyridine/sulphuric acid.

 

[ceriux]

lol either way thothie failed. i was the metal... i pulled it out last night and well the green magically disappeared along with the metal in my lip...

 

[Tentadrilus]

Frankly, you'd have to be the owner of approximately 5.6 f*cktonnes of refined stupidinium in order to think it's clever to do your own piercings.

 

[Dridmar]

Everyone makes mistakes, sometimes more than the usual amount but I think Ceriux has learned his lesson...I think.

 

[zeus9860]

I think so too, peircings = totally not the way to go!

 

[ceriux]

a large amount of people do their own peircing, i dont see a problem with it. i technically didnt have any problems...

 

[Thothie]

Find me one person who does their own peircings anywhere but their ears, doesn't do it professionally, and doesn't do pot and/or crack.

...excluding native tribesman in Africa etc.

* grammar Nazi ninja edit