I cannot get my left ear to stretch? (14g)?

I bought 14g tapers and plugs 2 days ago, and i was stretching them that night and i didnt have enough time to stretch them up slowly so it would be less painful, and i had school the next day, so i had to take them out. My right ear was halfway on the taper already, but my left ear wasn't even close to half of the taper. So the next day, aka yesterday, i put the tapers back in after school and my right ear got all the way to the wide end and i immediatly put the plug in so it would start the healing process when i slept. My left ear just reached the middle of the taper, and again, i had to take it out because I ran out of time and i needed sleep. I checked my right ear today, and it wasn't swollen at all, no pain whatsoever, it was doing fine. My left ear however, it was 3/4 of the way up the taper, and i ran out of time again. I take them out once more, and i plan to try the taper again tomorrow because it'll be the weekend where i can stay up alot longer. I also massaged my left ear during class, and i realized that it was of course, a little sore. The area underneath the hole in my ear was also slighty painful and midly hard/less soft then the rest of my lobe. Is this a sign of a blowout? Or does my left ear just need more time for the stretching process?