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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Fall
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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QueenPeppermint 7
When I was 14 I lost and earing on vacation and didn't have money for a good replacement pair. I ended up with a bleeding earlobe and an infection (I only wore them for a week btw) that hasn't completely gone away (4.5 years later) because I am severly allergic to nickel. GL to you, poster.
Trollz4daLULZ 2
YDI for being enough of a disgusting, unwashed pig to get an infection in the first place, for wearing earrings, for having piercings of any kind, and for even having ears which to pierce. SHAME on you. You have but one course of action open to you: AMPUTATION!!!!
DocBastard 40
Coincidentally, this is actually Step 3 in "DocBastard's Guide to Becoming a Cyborg". Step 7 involves injecting molten tungsten into the bone marrow, but I won't elaborate on that lest some of you get queasy.
mumblezzzzz 0
Doc I say you should enlighten us on this tungsten injection process please. :)
Bonniee 0
I have eight ear piercings and four backs of my earrings were engulfed by my ear, it was just caused by sleeping in them too much and they don't hurt at all:)
dudeitsdanny 10
Really? In the time I was with my ex(7 months), she never once slept without earrings, and I'm guessing she probably didn't before that. I've never seen my sister without earrings unless she lost one.. Guess everybody's different.
varkey 7
wtf? you're supposed to take out your earrings every night. you're an idiot, YDI.
redbluegreen 41
No, you don't. You're supposed to keep them in if you've recently had them pierced. It can take months before you're ready to keep them out overnight.
darkmis1 18
Same exact thing happened to me. You can either go to a plastic surgeon and pay out of pocket to have it cut out, or go to the ER/Ear, nose, and throat doctor, and pay through your insurance. I chose the latter, and would suggest it. Get it fixed quickly though.
ajlivesforhim 0
ydi..it's not hard to tell when your ear is infected. go see a doctor.
bazinga113 0
why would you put earrings in if it's infected
anna1928 4
that happened to me, it sucked...
Kandyland 12
Eurgh... This happened to me before too. I found out that I was allergic to a lot of the metals they use to make cheaper earrings. The first two times I got my ears pierced, they did this and then scarred shut. Oh god, I remember the smell. *gag* I'm so sorry. I know what you're going through.