What Is Wrong With My Belly Button Piercing?

[xEm3x]

I have had my belly button pierced for about 6 years now. I recently took it out and left it out for about a week because i had lost the ball to my bar & it was the only one i had. I put the bar through everyday and left it in for a bit to make sure it didn't close up. Now it absolutely kills me! It seems to be really tight & i think it is closing up! It only hurts when i have the bar in. The actual hole (the bit of skin the covers the bar) just goes red as soon as i put the bar in & it's really hard to put in & take it out. I have been cleaning it with salt water every day, just once a day. It just hurts & i want to know whats wrong & i really don't want it to close up. Help! x

[bobjugs12]

It doesn't make your tummy look toned, no more than earings make your head look normal.

[Eve]

I'd miss mine if I took it out but for goodness sake you silly girl, are you really going to risk your health for the sake of a bit of vanity? If the answer is yes then there really is no helping you!

Leave it out, get to the doctors to get it checked out (nurse appointment should suffice) and make sure it heals properly before you risk messing about with it again.

If you leave it, it will get worse and it will not be pleasant and you could end up with a lasting scar or worse - maybe desperately appealing to your vanity is the only way forwards here!

[xEm3x]

If i let it close up will there be a scar where it used to be? x

[jackthehat]

You'll have a 'x' .............

[4getmenot]

em are you russian by any chance?

[xEm3x]

No, i'm naturally blonde x

[Eve]

If it has got infected there may be a scar there regardless of what you do so there is no good reason for getting it properly looked after and healed.

Prolonging getting the infection sorted will just make things worse.

If you had looked after it properly in the first place you probably wouldn't have been in this situation. A lesson learnt if you even get it pierced again.

[jackthehat]

4get - I thought 'The Russian' departed at the same time Whiff(f)ey left us.........

[ChuckFickens]

What The Funicular!

Q) Are you Russian

A) No I'm naturally blond!

Hows that work then? are Russians not allowed to be blond?

[ummmm]

Is this thread still going?

Jenna....don't bother putting too much effort into your answers. It's a waste of time...

[bobjugs12]

Greatest lines ever
4get: em are you russian by any chance?
em: No, i'm naturally blonde x

LMAO

[ummmm]

Jack...Whiffey swore to me that he wasn't the russian. He said he use to talk to her though...

[bobjugs12]

Em, do you want my opinion as a professional. If you'l leave it in, you'll end up with gangrene and then you'll smell like rotten flesh. So I think you should leave it in!