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nekowafer:
A keloid is permanent scarring - though what you have probably looks like one, it isn't. Which is good. Cartilage piercings are just more sensitive to pressure and adjustments than other types.

Welu:
Ah, great. I didn't mean to write keloid actually but I must have been thinking about them.

Jimmy the Squid:

--- Quote from: Eris on 25 Sep 2013, 18:56 ---Internal threading, titanium bar? Stainless steel? I have no idea what the material is, other than the standard stuff from a reputable piercing place. I got it done by the same people that did my vertical labret and I haven't had any issues with that which could have come from an allergy.

The guy at the piercing place said that some people get irritations when they get cartilage piercings (hence the steroid cream) but that normally if it's happening on my ear then I probably would have had a similar reaction on my nostril piercing. I never got a bump like that, but it would go really red and swell up if I bumped or moved the nose screw for any reason and I only noticed it not being a problem in the last year or so. Maybe there is a connection there...

Sleeping on the ear probably isn't helping, but because of my back issues it takes longer for me to get uncomfortable on my right side than my left so I end up rolling onto that side when I'm half asleep.

--- End quote ---

It'll almost certainly be surgical steel. That's what Polymorph uses for all their basic jewelry.

Cartilage piercings are always fucked to heal and take ages. It's probably that you're not cleaning it enough (which you told me the other week) and sleeping on it.

Eris:
I started cleaning it more after that! I am trying to make up for past laziness! It just didn't seem to be doing anything and kinda making the top ones more irritated so I went and talked to the guys about it.

I do sleep on my right side a fair bit though, so that wouldn't be helping.

Jimmy the Squid:
Yeah my eyebrow rings are still crusty and a little bloody after almost a year. I think it's probably because I sleep on them but I try not to. I have so much trouble with eyebrow rings though because I can't sleep on my back so I almost invariably end up sleeping on my face.

The lip ring is completely fine though. Best healed piercing I've ever had.

Also in a few weeks I'll have some nice photos of my finished sleeves for you guys. Only taken 4 years and an impromptu trip to Austria.

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