I’ve had my belly pierced for 9 months now and the skin between the bar has recently shrunk. It looks weird to have the piercing in because it hardly fits. Why did this happen and what should I do?
Pages:The skin between my belly piercing has shrunk?
Leave a comment ?
Just take it out mine did the same it “travels” sometimes like eyebrow piercings do. Go to a good body piercer and talk to them. One guy told me the way they pierced it and what jewelry they used is why mine messed up
My friends got the same way. Mine hasn’t though. She told me to move it around so it loosens up nd the skin doesn’t grow onto the ring. Mine turned out fine.
That happened to my best friend she had the piercing for like a year. It random got dry, flaky, and red then the skin began to shrink. It’s a sign that it’s getting infected. Keep it clean and moisturized and go talk to the place you got it pierced at they will have the best solution.
It is probably rejecting, so its slowly migrating out of the skin, hence the skin that’s above the bar appears smaller and not as ‘long’. Sometimes this can happen a while after getting the naval pierced.
The simple thing to do is to go see a professional piercer so they can have a proper look at it, then they would probably advise you to take it out before it rejects fully and falls out and leaves a not-so-pretty scar in its place.
Good luck.
Wow, you’ve gotten so many completely different answers.
I would agree with the first poster and say that your best bet is to go back to the place you had it pierced and have them take a look at it. It could be nothing or it could be the beginning stages of the rejection process.
When the skin between my piercing started shrinking within the first month or so after getting it pierced I rushed to the piercer and he said the swelling was just going down making it appear that it was growing longer or shrinking.
Fast forward three years from when I first got it pierced. I went to the piercing place with my best friend to get her nose pierced. They asked to see my belly button piercing as they wanted to see their previous work. I thought nothing was wrong with it. They took one look at it and said that the hole around the top piercing wasn’t as snug as it used to be and that I should just take it out as it was starting to reject. It doesn’t really matter how long you have your piercing. I thought I was in the clear after three years. My piercer told me hers rejected after 7 years! My best friends rejected after 6 months. You cant prevent it and you cant stop it. It is just something that happens to surface piercings.
Other signs of rejection are -
Redness around the top hole
The hole appears larger
Skin in front of the piercing appears thinner. Sometimes see through.
Piercing hangs lower
Pain
If it is truly rejecting I would highly recommend that you take it out right away. The sooner you take it out the less scarring you will have. My best friend tried to keep hers in until it was hanging by a thread of skin and she has a giant purple scar across the top of her belly button. I took mine out right away and I just have a tiny scar the size of a dot. The good news is that if it rejects you can wait until it closes up and then get it re pierced deeper behind the scar tissue and hope that it stays.
Sometimes the scar tissue in front of it will keep it in better.