By caempa - 29/12/2010 18:13 - Australia

Today, I was taking my earrings out and thought I had lost the back of one. Turns out my ear infection has caused the flesh of my ear to grow around and engulf the back of my earring and it is still stuck in there. FML
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Ownord_fml 10

Why wearing earrings when you have an ear infection ? D:

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perdix 29

Sounds like you are evolving into the next version of **** sapiens. Imagine all the hassle that can be avoided if you had earring backs built-in. You are the future of the human race!

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luraizu 0

haha I love this comment.

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antiauk 0

Don't worry about it too much. This happened to me when I was about 10 years old and put cheap earrings in too soon and for too long. What will happen is skin will grow around the backing, but the hole won't close up, you'll then be able to work the backing out painlessly...although it will be kind of weird as skin will have grown inside the backing.

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cocololo15 0

That happened to me when I was younger...it's really painful. My mom had to yank the back of my earing out of my ear and it started bleeding! Yuck!

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Mirorbo 26

Ew....that's a quick infection if it consumed the back in one day...unless...you don't take out your earrings every day and clean your ears like you should.

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deidre823 7

It's not from your ear infection, it's because you're wearing cheap earrings. I had the same thing happen to me in the third grade. it took 3 months for the back to fall off.

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MonkeySpeaks 4

Piercing 101 - if you have a bad infection you take the piercing out. What's worse: nasty infection v. repiercing Hmm

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cheeksMcgeeks 3

You actually aren't supposed to take the piercing out...

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MonkeySpeaks 4

Someone said you're supposed to leave them in during infectiOns and their reasoning seemed sound. If so I gladly stand corrected.

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tigrouficele2012 44

That happened to me when I was ten...and apparently half the other commenters as well. Weird. You'd never think something like this would be so common...

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redbluegreen 40

On the contrary, I don't know why it wouldn't be common. Infections happen all the time, especially when someone young doesn't really know what they're supposed to be doing or how to properly clean the area. The healing over part is quite common as well and becomes a problem for a good amount of piercings. The body is just doing its job: healing itself.

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tigrouficele2012 44

Good points, but it still just seems so...weird. I mean, when you think of common childhood health issues, "earrings being swallowed by the earlobe" wouldn't normally come to mind. That's why I said that, I guess...maybe it's common, but it's strange-seeming in itself all the same.

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