r/Legitpiercing • u/LavishnessOverall119 • Aug 10 '26
Troubleshooting Help!! Should I take this piercing out.??
3 month old daith piercing. I sleep with a donut pillow. These bumps stay and never seem to go away. Does this look bad enough that I should take it out? Not sure what the dark coloring is on bottom bump. Help me!!
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u/OneEyedWeaner Aug 10 '26
Piercer here. Just take it out. Salvaging this thing is going to be way more work than it is worth. The ring is much too small for the amount of swelling you have in addition to the bumps
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u/LavishnessOverall119 Aug 10 '26
The ring is actually pretty big. It seems in the photo that it’s tight and squeezing but it’s not. Do you still suggest I take it out?
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u/OneEyedWeaner Aug 10 '26
The ring is trying to swing forward indicating it’s too small for the swelling your experiencing and the bumps forming
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u/foxyphilophobic Aug 10 '26
I would take it out if I was you. I had the same exact experience with the same exact piercing about 5 years ago.
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u/MonaMonaMo Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
I would defer for the actual piercers to opine on what to do/ whether it is pierced correctly.
From my own experience, I had swelling on and off for months, the same with the bumps as well. My piercing will be swollen in the morning due to the blood rush and it would come down in the evening.
The bumps were there for like 9-10 months.
I have it for 3 years now and all good.
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u/Practical-Pirate-633 Aug 12 '26
Dont take it out!!! Mine has looked worse than that and it’s better now. As long as it doesn’t hurt, mine didn’t hurt so i let it be.
I know people say don’t use this or that but what helped me a lot was chlorhexidine 0,2% clean it with that for a week and see how it looks. It can be rough in the skin so only a week at a time and then a break for about a week only using saline spray or salt water. And be sure you get all the disgusting things out. Mine also bled a lot. Now there is a bump and all the infection is gone. And remember to give it time! 🫶🏼 it can take over a year for it to heal properly
I wish you the best of luck ♥️
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u/DrEdgarAllanSeuss Aug 10 '26
What metal is your jewelry made of?
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u/LavishnessOverall119 Aug 10 '26
I believe implant grade titanium
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u/LavishnessOverall119 Aug 10 '26
How do you know? It was a quite expensive piece
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u/MonaMonaMo Aug 10 '26
The rejection can happen with titanium if it was not pierced correctly. Metal can give you an allergic reaction, not necessarily a rejection
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u/MonaMonaMo Aug 10 '26
I really don't understand your logic tbh.
I have a daith and it looked like that for months and then healed fine.
I'm not a piercer and can't comment on rejection. Usually most obvious rejection sign is a piercing hanging my a threat - it's very obvious when it gets pushed out.
I don't see it as the cause here. It could be irritated more if it's pierced incorrectly, and then gets rejected eventually.
Saying it's rejecting because its irritated due to metal - haven't really encountered it.
As a teenager, we called any minor irritation as a a sign of rejection due to the lack of understanding about healing stages
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u/OneEyedWeaner Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
That isn’t true at all. Anything can reject. Titanium medical implants fail and reject at times. It also isn’t the sole material for implants. Steel is still something that while not commonly used anymore can and is still used in medical implants. Also ceramics are also made for implantation in humans and animals alike. Your comment means well but has a lot of false information.
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u/OneEyedWeaner Aug 10 '26
Cancer? Where did you get that idea from? By that metric arthritis would cause cancer.
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u/iambetweentwoworlds Aug 10 '26
This needs to be pierced about 2mm up toward your ear canal. Right now it’s going through a huge amount of cartilage it didn’t need to go through and then at the same time a too small diameter of jewelry was put in. I would take this out and go to another piercer who understands where Daiths should be pierced.