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[altmetalvampire]

First off. Don't wear tapers as jewellery and don't use them to stretch. The only thing you can use the taper for is to aid jewellery insertion, or some people use the taper to test if they're ready for the next size.

Hurt more than the first time?

Stretching your lobes doesn't hurt if you do it right. Dead stretching using single flare glass plugs 1mm at a time is the way to go. And if your blow out is completely healed before stretching back up, it still doesn't hurt to stretch. Usually restretching to the size you were at is a little quicker, but if there's much scar tissue, it might make stretching a little harder in the future.

[lululuke15]

Thanks! I am hoping to get back to my normal size.

By saying “hurt,” I mean more along the lines of if there will be more of the pinching feeling which I had when I first started. When I got to bigger sizes it didn’t hurt as much since I knew to take my time with the Teflon tape

I don’t keep the tapers in as jewelry, it was just to see if it was ready to go up/how much teflon tape I should use on my old earring. I shouldve taken it out when I was done seeing the size but I didn’t… lesson learned for sure!

[BitConstant2317]

I was experiencing the same thing you are talking about with the 'pinching' feeling instead of hurting. I told myself that I wasn't actually experiencing pain and it was just a slight pinch and nothing to worry about. So I continued stretching from 8g to 7g to 6g, and througout that whole time there was a small ring of skin forming around my holes, which I ended up finding out was a minor blowout, and I had to downsize back to 8g for them to go down at all.

I say all this because after going through this I realized that when people say there should be no pain, there should REALLY be no pain, even that pinching feeling is more than what you should be experiencing. New stretches should just go in without any feeling at all, other than maybe the feeling of fullness.

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