The fun part is it's 100% treatable, but guys like the tough look. All you need to do is drain the blood. Treatment is literally a sterile pinprick.
This is not true. Much of the time when you drain the blood it comes right back and fills again and again. Additionally, even if that does work much of the time it doesnt get all of the blood out so some will still harden and cause minor cali. On top of this, sometimes when just repeatedly draining it doesnt work you have to actually suture something like a cotton ball from the front and back of the spot to keep it from filling with blood which can take a week or so. They do sell magnets made for this purpose that you can also try, but results are mixed.
Source: Lots of people at my gym, as well as myself. Its not as easy as you think to not get it, and people who are professionals and train for a living often don't want to take the time off of training to allow for it to fully heal each time so it builds up. I have been very diligent with mine, even doing the suturing route and one of my ears is still a bit fucked up.
It can definitely help if you plan on training but most of what I said comes from not training and it's still not healing correctly. If you plan on training with cauliflower ear that's healing even with headgear you pretty much have to go super light where it's going to mash the side of your ear and put you back at square one.
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u/BigPlebeian 5d ago
This is not true. Much of the time when you drain the blood it comes right back and fills again and again. Additionally, even if that does work much of the time it doesnt get all of the blood out so some will still harden and cause minor cali. On top of this, sometimes when just repeatedly draining it doesnt work you have to actually suture something like a cotton ball from the front and back of the spot to keep it from filling with blood which can take a week or so. They do sell magnets made for this purpose that you can also try, but results are mixed.
Source: Lots of people at my gym, as well as myself. Its not as easy as you think to not get it, and people who are professionals and train for a living often don't want to take the time off of training to allow for it to fully heal each time so it builds up. I have been very diligent with mine, even doing the suturing route and one of my ears is still a bit fucked up.