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Sleeping on an industrial piercing?
I just got an industrial piercing on Friday and I know that I should not be sleeping on it. It's in my left ear and I try to sleep on my back or my right side at night. But sometimes, I move around in my sleep and will roll over to the left side. I'm not a particularly heavy sleeper so when it happens (and because my ear is still tender), I can feel it and roll back over to my right side or my back.
I don't sleep on it for extended periods of time but it's happened the past two nights where I wake up a couple of times on the wrong side. I just really, REALLY don't want to get those bumps on my ear from not taking care of my piercing.
How bad is this overall for my piercing? It's never for more than a couple of minutes once or twice through the night but I'm just concerned.
(I clean it with antibacterial soap and a Q-tip, as my piercer recommended, about 4-5 times a day and do the sea salt soak with a Q-tip or a cotton ball at least 3 times throughout the day.)
And worse case scenario, if bumps do appear, if I take the piercing out, would get continue to get worse or no?
Thanks.
1 Answer
- 7 years ago
I slept on my cartilage and it hurt like hell which prevented me from sleeping on it but I guess sometimes I didn't feel the pain and I have quite a bump still 2 years later