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Piercing question?

Okay, I'm planning on getting my lip pierced, but I need to know exactly how much it's going to swell up. I keep hearing that it's not much, but I don't want to go to work the next day looking like I was stung by a killer bee. Also, is it okay to ice it, and for how long?

Thanks

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  • 1 decade ago
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    on a scale from 1-10 it will probably swell up to a 4

    it all depends when i got mine it lookd huge but i know other people whos lip didnt swell at all

    yeah you can deff ice it and dont worry it doesnt matter for how long after all its just frozen water :}

    happy piercing

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  • 1 decade ago

    No one can tell you how bad the swelling is going to be. Some people swell, some don't. Mine was noticeably swollen for about a week, more at the beginning of the week. And I mean it was swollen...to the point where when I closed my mouth, the other side of my lips didn't touch because the side with my piercing was just that swollen.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it dosent swell that bad i mean you have to excpect a little swelling when your are getting a needle jabbed through your lip.

    when i had my lip pierced, i dont remmeber it swelling but then again i have a reall good peircer.

    so if you worried about your job then get it done like on a friday when your off the next day on saturday or however your personal schedul works this way the swelling should be at a minimal or gone by the time you get back to work.

    if you just cant wait till a day off then, ice it when you get home.

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