Hey guys, I got my second helix pierced last Friday and it has been a complete nightmare!
First off I hardly ever bleed for piercings, but when I got this done It looked like I'd been in a horrific accident and I could feel it dripping down my ear. There was a LOT of blood. With my other piercings I'd sometimes see a bit of dry blood and that's it but this was completely different. Has any one experienced a heavy bleed when getting pierced? (UPDATE: It hasn't bled since)
Secondly the pain. I hate to sound like a whiny little bitch but this constant throbbing is killing me! Asides from the bleeding, getting it done was no real problem but now my ear is just a throbbing, burning mess. Again, I haven't experienced this before so any advice to stop the pain? Will normal paracetamol do? I don't have any in the house so haven't tried it yet.
Thirdly the swelling. Over the last couple of days my ear has gotten pretty big. It's red and puffy and sore and very unhappy. How do I get this to go down?
Fourthly (is that a word?) as I'm writing this I just touched the side of my neck and I can feel a small round lump sort of under my ear at the back of my jaw. WTF!? I don't think that was there yesterday. Is that my glands? Does this sound like an infection? HELP PLEASE!
(Just adding that the guy who did my piercing has got a pretty good reputation and did all my other piercings no problem. I've been cleaning it once a day with salt and water with a cotton bud/swab thingy. And sorry If I sound like a whiny piece of shit, like I said, I haven't really had any negative piercing experience asides from the odd flare up so I have no idea what to do!)
UPDATE: It's only three days old, am I ridiculously overreacting?
Thanks in advance and sorry again for the whining!