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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I have an infected piercing because I'm allergic to the metal. My ear is so swollen that I can't remove the jewelry. It won't get better until I'm able to remove the jewelry. FML
Today, I spent the first day of my senior year in the ER because my new ear piercing got so infected that the doctors had to cut the earring out. FML
Today, and for the past few days, I've become aware that it's absolutely the worst time ever to get an infection after getting my right ear pieced, and having to walk around with a big Band-aid on my earlobe. FML
Today, my excruciating ear pain turned out to be a bastard maggot eating away at all the vital things behind my eardrum. The doctor pulled it out, but I’m now permanently deaf in that ear and can’t balance. I fall if I try to stand or walk further than 5 feet. FML
Today, I went to the doctor's to get a checkup. When the nurse stuck the Otoscope into my ear to look, she was disgusted. When she pulled it out, she told me that I had an ear infection, and that she'd popped a pimple in there by mistake. FML
Today, something blocked my ear. I couldn't get it out, so I went to Urgent Care so I didn't pop my eardrums. Turns out my allergies made my ears stop draining. After they rinsed my ears, I can now hear almost nothing. FML
Today, I got a second piercing in my ear. I needed help cleaning the back, so I asked my dad for help. I told him to careful, but right when I did, he tore the earring out with the cotton swab. Thanks, dad. FML
Today, I discovered that it is possible for bugs to lay eggs in your ears. FML
Today, I was laying down in bed when my puppy decided to bite my ear. As I started laughing and pulling him off, I noticed one of my $200 earrings got pulled off with it. And now… I wait. FML
Today, in the process of leaning over the sink to close the drain so my diamond earrings wouldn't fall in as I put them on, I dropped my diamond earring down the drain. FML
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Top comments
Ownord_fml 10
Why wearing earrings when you have an ear infection ? D:
sweet_candy_ 17
Go to the doctor now.
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ooooooooooooh 4
gutted
PuppiesFTW 5
That sounds really disgusting.
Reyo 2
Nothing a good reliable knife can't fix in the shower one morning. C'mon princess, this is the time to prove to the world that you have some LADY BALLS!
lifesucks1234567_fml 2
ovaries**
Snowjob 0
poop
Lolerskatez 0
I had a similar experience except mine grew over the top doctor ripped it right out the back, bled a fair bit but it was over and done with fairly quick
johnprescott 0
Were the earrings beautiful
ayenii 14
This happened to me when I was 11 or so.. I thought the back had fallen out so I put a new one in. Turns out it was inside my earlobe and almost had to have it cut off from the infection.
Ownord_fml 10
Why wearing earrings when you have an ear infection ? D:
ImaginaryFoe 1
That's what I wondered. I know this can happen without an infection but to leave it in while you have one seems like asking for trouble.
redbluegreen 41
You're actually supposed to leave them in when you have an infection. If you take them out, the infection will become trapped inside your ear and can go into your blood stream, which can result in death. Take your cleaning up a notch and go to a doctor if it becomes worse.
Ownord_fml 10
I know you're supposed to leave them in when you have an small infection (like when you just got the piercing), but when it's that bad you should take them off and go to the doctor. For it to engulf the entire back of the earring, it kind of doubt the infection just started...
redbluegreen 41
Actually, it can happen within a matter of a day or two. The backing of the earring can disappear in a matter of hours. The piercings sound relatively new, so she shouldn't really be taking them out in the first place. Leave them in and see a doctor. If they need to be removed, the doctor will do them.
redbluegreen 41
Oh, it does. Different parts of the body heal at different paces, so a cut on your arm or leg can take days, but one on your ear would be a lot faster. A tongue piercing can heal in under an hour. Do you not remember the girl whose earrings healed over while she slept? It's happened to me too. I'm referencing from personal experience, what I've heard at the doctors, and the piercer I went to.
amylynette 0
it's not that the skin 'grows', it's that the infection swells the skin over the back. you've never had anything swell up?
mrsflinstone 0
i've heard that when you have an ear infection, you get the earrings you got your ears pierced with (or just any studs that dont make the infection worse, so like no cheap earrings) and put neosporin on them and put them in your ears and leave them in when you sleep, shower, and everything until your infection goes away! but keep reapplying neosporin. my ears always get badly infected and this is what i do. works everytime as long as you leave the earrings in!! and keep neosporin on
xxRuthAnnexx 0
lol at 91's comment I was just about to ask that.
xgetxbentx 13
redbluegreen is right, however it sounds like op put the earrings in knowing she had an infection and this just irritated it to that point. regardless, redbluegreen is correct that it can only take a day or two for the infection to engulf the earring, it all depends on thr type of infection and what caused it. my question is why op is on the computer and not at the hospital having it removed before it becomes completely lodged in there and requires actual surgery as opposed to a small incision....
EllieB123 5
Well actually, my skin grew over the front of one of my earrings and it only took about two hours. My friend and I sat and watched it! You could only see the back of my earring sticking out. I left it in and went to the doctor, who had to cut it out. :/
EllOfficial 6
This exact thing happened to me! It's actually kinda hard to notice, but I got the backs taken out by my piercer and gold hoops put in. Healed in no time :)
ballbearing 10
Why would you sit and watch this happen?!? And not do anything before it was so bad it had to be cut out?
sweet_candy_ 17
Go to the doctor now.
yourWIFEandKIDS 0
WIN^^
Banana_Pancakes6 0
Epic win, haha.
thetriplem 0
I've had that happen to me twice... i had to push the earring back through the skin. it hurt soo bad!
juturnaamo 29
I did that too...I was so freaked out.
NrdGrl42 0
Happened to me before I was a teen.. my dad had to work on pushing the back out while cleaning the puss away >.<
lms0708 0
it happened to me too when I was like 5. it sucked
princessxx45 0
oi! that sounds gross D: but yeah you shouldn't have been wearing earrings
bennyboy111 7
no she should use the anti bacterial spray u get to prevent the ear infection
somekid1989 0
That happened to me when I was 8. Painful. You really just need to disinfect before pushing it through. It hurts, but do it so it doesn't get worse.
hereforthehour01 0
Um.....A few things: 1) Why are you wearing earrings if you have that bad of an infection? 2) Why haven't you seen a doctor? You obviously haven't because they would have told you not to wear earrings in the first place 3) What kind of dumbass do you have to be to not notice a piece of metal being meshed into the back of your earlobe??? You are very unintelligent.
butterflybella 0
wow critical! lose the gut and grow some chest lol
heroesgleealias 0
19) way to be a rude bitch
princessxx45 0
basmah!! egyptians uniiiiite! :D
hereforthehour01 0
19) hey bitch, at least Im confident enough to put a pic of myself up instead of some stupid butterfly. hypocrite.
heroesgleealias 0
52) power to ya!
vettle 6
I wish I knew what 19 wrote!
bonnie_vb8 5
ya but our fat rolls are hanging out of your bakini so I wouldn't be sayin shit about how confident you seem to be.
bonnie_vb8 5
*your
Alexx4 0
Learn to spell before you have a go at someone! (y)
TheFlyingLampie 4
86 = Fail
itsjoshcee 0
lol look at 86s profile. Shes a dirty underaged kid. -_- go drink a bottle of milk and watch spongebob.
butterflybella 0
heyyy how come I'm moderated? I didn't call anyone a b-word like u guys are!!
RachelElizabeth7 0
go 100, the chicks 15 and likes to **** around... that is feral!!
aliciamartinez15 11
And your a bitch!
aliciamartinez15 11
Oh and your smiley face is backwards
Mister22_fml 5
She could have just got her ears pierced. I just had mine done the other day and they say you have to leaving for six weeks. This is when ear infections are the most common.
katiebove 0
ew.
Ninjafriends 1
It takes a lot of neglect for something like this to happen. I'd like to hear your explanation when you go through the metal detector at the airport.
unidentified_sta 5
"I'm more than just a ordinary fleshy human, much more than that."
Luky13 0
bet shes gonna have a lot of pat-downs in her future.
XxSonyaBladexX 0
Hahah! Me too!!
zp5 4
Ok, so why are you wearing earrings if you have an ear infection? You need to see a doctor.