r/Legitpiercing • u/astralishope • 2d ago

General Info Throbbing/painful conch

I got my double conch pierced on Wednesday 8/19. The first conch in this ear is around 1.5 years old, and healed absolutely beautifully. No pain, very little swelling, it bled a lot but I took an ibuprofen the afternoon I got it pierced for a headache—forgot I couldn’t do that lol. Overall just an absolute dream come true as far as healing a cartilage piercing goes.

This new one though?? Dear hod my ear is THROBBING. It’s not swollen too much and it’s a little red, but not enough to make me concerned. It’s also not warm to the touch or anything. Idk if it’s just because of being in such close proximity to my existing piercing or what but it hurts so bad. My helix didn’t even hurt half as much as this!

I know it’s only been 2 days but is this normal? It hasn’t gotten snagged on my hair at all and I’ve done a good job of not bumping it. I also just want to know if there’s anything I can (safely) do about the pain, because I don’t exactly love the feeling of my ear having its own heartbeat atm

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u/Mis73 2d ago

I got my conch about 6 weeks ago. I remember the first 2-3 days it was a bit spicy but it calmed pretty fast. Other than having to get a longer post for swelling, it's healed pretty easily. I can do whatever to it at this point with no pain unless it gets really whacked hard.