So it’s been almost a week since I got the conchs done. There was some swelling and it hurt like a bitch every time I banged on my ear or caught one of them with my finger. The barbell in the lower hole is pretty long so it doesn’t look completely goofy until I get the CBRs in but that means it gets knocked around more than if it was short. Last night was the first time I could even come close to sleeping on it. And today was the first day I could move the lower barbell without it feeling like I was getting it pierced again.

No pain no gain, right? It’ll all be worth it once I get the rings in but I’d definitely advise against getting inner conchs on both sides at the same time unless you can sleep on your back for a week or so though.

Fetch, don’t you think?

Last night I finally got around to getting my inner conches done. I got 2 done in my right ear with 14ga barbells for now. Johnson & Tasha came with me to take pictures and we rolled into Warlock’s about 9. There were 2 girls there getting navel rings (at least one was, I guess I’m not sure about the other one) and another girl getting a lobe piercing in front of me. I filled out the forms, ID, yada yada legal stuff. Autumn brought me in and we test fitted some rings then she put all the stuff in [the thing she still doesn't call an autoclave but I can never remember the name of]. I’m starting with barbells and will switch out to CBRs once the piercings are fully healed.

As usual, the actual piercings were pretty anti-climactic. Breath in, breath out,  needle through, jewelry in. She did the bottom first then the top. I will say that cartiledge is clearly tougher than  whatever earlobes are made out of. Autumn had to push pretty hard and where mine are is probably the thickest part of the conch.  As far as I know there wasn’t any blood. There definitely wasn’t any popping sound. There was pain but it was bearable — for the first I’d give it a 2/10 and the 2nd was probably a 2.5/10. As a comparison, I’d say the lobes piercings were 0.5/10 for the first 2 and maybe a 1/10 for the third one. There was a dull ache out of the top one for a while but nothing an ibuprofen didn’t take care of.

I went to bed a couple hours later and did sleep on my right side some during the night by putting the pillow above my ear. I did bang them a couple times during the night and that’ll wake you up. This morning there’s still a little ache from the top one but I can touch them (lightly) without it hurting. I cleaned them this morning and it didn’t make me cry like a little girl or anything.

Here are pictures. I’ll like them better once I get the rings in.

This is after she’d done the first one

And this is from this morning. Looking good so far…

Psych! I went down to get them yesterday but Autumn was out of 14ga barbells in 3/8″ & 1/2″. I didn’t think to ask about 12ga until after we left. I would totally have gone for 12s. She supposed to get some in Monday so maybe next weekend.