What should I do now?
I just took out my belly button piercing to clean it, and the skin around the ball has a small, distinct hole, like a pressure sore, and it's dark. When I tried to put it back in, it wouldn't go in, and I punctured the skin trying to put it back in; otherwise, the piercing wouldn't have gone back in. Now it's bleeding, and the skin is a strangely white color. I've disinfected it, put cream for infected wounds on it that my piercer gave me, and put a bandage over it. Does anyone know what this is?
What should I do now?
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How old is your piercing? A fresh piercing e.g. you do not take out to clean, because that can happen.
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How old is the piercing? Is it already healed? If you don’t, it can get back together very quickly. You will probably not have completely re-stabbed the skin, only have opened the narrowed channel. Just keep up with saline or disinfectant, you don’t need to stick it off – it should heal in the air.
The piercing is 8 weeks old, it was almost healed
Superficially, maybe, but after 8 weeks hardly a navel piercing is completely cured – otherwise it would not have bleededed when taking out. Let it in for a few more weeks, you don’t have to take it out.
You don’t take the piercing out during the healing process.
I have piercing since 8 weeks