Ok i got my cartilage(helix) pierced with a gun at clairs on March 28. PLEASE don’t say ANYTHING about what guns do to your ears, i have heard it all.
I have known since then that my chances of infection and keloid devolvement are very high. For the past couple of days my ear has been very itchy, i thought it meant it was healing. Yesterday it started swelling really bad, and still is swollen. Tonight when i was cleaning it I felt a bump on my ear, I can see it now that I know its there (see picture) its a LITTLE red, and i realized the itchiness has revolved around that spot. If it is a keloid, which i think it is, it is just devolving. It wasn’t there this morning. If it is more noticeable i will make a doctors appointment tomorrow and get cortisone injections
should i take out my earring? I have heard when you take it out the keiod stops growing. IF i take it out, will i be able to get it at a later time in the same ear? (this time properly at a tattoo/piercing place)
I am developing a keloid next to cartilage piercing?
okee dokee... i have four piercings there... all done with guns.
don't take the piercing out. you just need to soak it in warm sea salt water. you can get sea salt in the spice section at kroger. mix the sea salt in hot water (has hot as you can withstand) in a dixie cup. mix it so it's all dissolved. soak and i mean SOAK a couple of cotton balls and keep it on your piercing for 10 minutes, twice a day. it should go away within two weeks. that happened with my belly piercing and it went away FAST.
Reply:I got those on my cartilidge piercing. I have my tragus and rook done.
Do sea salt soaks. I believe its a coffee cup size of hot water with 1/4 teaspoon of SEA SALT.
Immerse your whole ear to make sure the entire piercing is covered in that water and let it soak for 10 minutes. This is going to get blood flow to the area.
Do this once or twice a day. You'll start to see the keloid go down within 1-2 days. DON'T STOP DOING THE SEA SALTS. It will eventually go away, but keep doing them. The soaks will keep that away.
I stopped doing them and they came back!!
Basically once the piercing entirely heals the keloids should go away all together. It's a sign your body realizes that the big thing in the hole (i.e the earring) isn't going away.
Good luck! If they grow in size, I suggest going to a professional piercer for help.
Reply:Usualy you develop the keloid at the site of the piercing, or at least I did. I had mine for a year before I started to develop a keloid that was significantly larger than the one you're describing. I too had mine done at Claire's. Honestly, if you really want to keep it keep cleaning it like crazy and consult a peircing parlor specialist. They may reccommend you remove it and let it heal, then repierce it with a needle instead. I had to remove mine as the keloid made it had to close a lot of earrings. Don't let that happen. If you find it's always irritated, without relief, remove it and just get it redone by a piercing parlor. The keloid will shrink, though mine never fully went away.
Reply:Ok, speaking from experience here, I had the same problem with my helix piercing. Did you have a recent trauma to that ear? Did you hit it or get it jerked on recently? A granuloma can develop if that is the case. They are totally different than keloids. Do reading up on granuloma. I suggest starting with a google on the subject piercing granuloma. You will find that they are much more common than keloids, and they DO go away, as a real keloid does not. Mine turned out to be a granuloma and it took about a month, and it is finally gone. And yes, I did remove the piercing. Next time see a professional, ok? Good luck.
Reply:It's not a keloid, it's hypotrophic scarring. And it can be healed. Do seal salt compresses twice a day on the tissue (1/4 teaspoon to a cup of water, and nuked for 30 seconds).
Once again, I recommend you go to a piercing studio and get the jewelry changed. The swelling can cause the stud in your ear to embed inside your skin, since it isn't long enough to accomodate it.
DO NOT take it out. If it's infected, or has puss stuff in it (which it may very well), it can trap that gunk under the skin and cause festering. The doctor will tell you to take it out. DON'T. Doctors are not trained to deal with piercing wounds, which are different from other wounds.
You probably don't need cortisone. You just need good jewlery and aftercare.
But if you do, a knowledgeable piercer will definately be able to tell you.
Go to a studio and get proper jewelry.
Reply:claires is a bad place.. and would suggest sea salt.. good stuff.. and maybe if its swollen.. once I had swelling so bad in my carilage.. I had a pounding headache. take it out if worsens
Reply:take it out dont even waste your time or money with the doc. its a $10 piercing you made a mistake you know that take it out it will heal up and the keloid will go away ( i did the same thing 10 years ago and had the same results i put up with it for 6 years) when its all healed up in a few months go to a professional piercer at a tattoo shop and have him do it the right way ya know i dont even know why those twits are allowed to do this to ppl goodluck
Reply:http://www.skin-disease.org/disorders/ke...
This site is pretty helpful.
Itching is normal, don't take the jewelry out you will have to re-pierce through scar tissue which can be painful. I have had keliods in my rook piercing and also my nose they do go away, but sometimes they need a little help.
Reply:warm water with 1/4 teaspoon of SEA SALT.
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