Earring Backing stuck in my ear lobe

So I've been having some issues with my stud in my left ear, and today in Math I saw that only a small portion (1/3) of the earring backing that holds my earring in place was present. I thought "Where did the rest of it go!?!?" when I realized that it was somehow INSIDE of my ear lobe. A good centimeter was inside of there, and the skin had grown around the backing leaving a tiny portion out of my ear. I took out the stud, which left the backing inside my ear. I told my math teacher to let me go to the bathroom, finally I called him a fruit - cup and walked out to the clinic. Eventually I got home, and my dad numbed it with some cream, gave me a pain-killer, and took tweezers and some how pulled it out. My ear was a 16g and now the back of my ear is an 8g (roughly) do to this. But at least it's out.

Has anyone else had this happen to them??? D:

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lmao i got lost at the fruit cup part, but atleast it's out now.

Why did you call your maths teacher a fruit cup

whats a fruitcup LOL. did pulling it out hurt coz it sounds really painful ouch. at least it's out now.

Sounds awful D: I don't have piercings so it hasn't happened to me. I seem to remember it happened to someone in year 7, but being a long time ago I can't remember much.

Atleast its out now!

I had my lboes re-pierced when I was 11 and they got infected like that I had to get the earring that had gone right in to my ear pulled out with something sharp at a hospital and after that they were oozing red liquid, but I have them re-pierced and many other piercings now and they're fine :)

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Originally Posted by Jssy

I had my lboes re-pierced when I was 11 and they got infected like that I had to get the earring that had gone right in to my ear pulled out with something sharp at a hospital and after that they were oozing red liquid, but I have them re-pierced and many other piercings now and they're fine :)

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That's called BLOOD.


:P

My friend in high school has this happen to her. She was dead set against piercing her ears for years and eventually she has them done and get's one stuck in her ear. Think they had to cut her ear open to get it out though!

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Originally Posted by Recursion

That's called BLOOD.


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lol I wasn't sure if it was cos it wasn't like blood its was like gungey and the nurse at hospital said it was a type of pus/discharge

That's happened to me but it was with my tragus piercing ad the ball at the front went inside my tragus

My friend had his fall into his loves and had to get them cut open. sounds eugh.

Haha. I'm ONLY gonna use hoop earings. Like this: https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/im...iFguR28ULpUCFw

And I called him a fruit, because he was making me mad. :P

Taha at the fruit cup thing. It sounds disgusting and painful, ouch.

That must have been quite worrying, I would have panicked, as it’s something that has always bothered me. Because it’s too easy to push the backing in too far. I think you call the back a butterfly. Also some earrings have a long post and I have found they dig into me when I sleep, so opted to buy some plastic butterflies which seem to work well.

I've never had the back go in but I've had the front of the earring go all the way into my ear once. That was fun ;) It was the first time I got them pierced when I was 6 I think. Didn't put me off getting them done again though, I got them re-pierced a couple of years after :P