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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Comments (176)
HSOMGF 5
That's just disgusting.
perdix 31
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!
luraizu 0
haha I love this comment.
Tequila_Hilton 3
ouuchhhhh!!!
Cass3m0 0
I agree. Very ouch.
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.
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!
SdCounty33 0
That's disgusting.
Mirorbo 27
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.
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.
MonkeySpeaks 4
Piercing 101 - if you have a bad infection you take the piercing out. What's worse: nasty infection v. repiercing Hmm
cheeksMcgeeks 3
You actually aren't supposed to take the piercing out...
MonkeySpeaks 4
Someone said you're supposed to leave them in during infectiOns and their reasoning seemed sound. If so I gladly stand corrected.
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...
redbluegreen 41
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.
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.