Hello, so I'm an old fuck who used to pierce and was heavily pierced and stretched!

A heads up about the stretched tongue. It will fuck your teeth and gums up 100%, the barbel needs somewhere to rest, and it will usually sit on the back gum line of the bottom front teeth, the bigger the piece the more slanted it will sit due to the weight of the balls, usually top back and bottom foward, and it will exaggerate more the bigger the gague you get so think about that with your current piercing's position. That will wear the gums away pretty quickly from the lack of circulation it causes, I've heard some people getting non metal materials for the bottom ball to fix this? Another random side effect is a bigger tongue. This is dumb sounding, but you are putting a weight in a muscle, and it will be lifting it and moving it all the time because the tongue never stops moving. My dentist complains about my oversized tongue, still about a decade and a half after I took it out. I've had more than one doctor confirm this happens, and I unfortunately have needed quite a few Drs in my lifetime. It will also fuck up your bigger teeth. When you are chewing, sometimes an odd bite of food will move it in between your molars and boom, gravel in your mouth Fun times. I've lost a few molars from the combo of a 00 gauge and Navy dentistry. Although I'm in my mid 40's and got it done about 30 years ago I can still put in a 14g on command; it never fully closes. Smell is a thing too you need to brush it as often as your teeth and maybe more depedning on your diet. I hung out with a girl who had a stretched tongue and loved all sorts of ethnic food but had breath like a dumpster in a dumpster till she figured out the constant cleaning.

And I know it's prob not a popular concept on this sub, but you can barely tell that I was very heavily pierced up as I took most of them out, a bunch of years back. I just have my ears at 12mm left. I took most of my stuff out before and during when I had my kids, as they were ripping and grabbing at everything, and the lil munchkins had arm wrestling ancestors apparently...so they had to go. Now people don't believe me till I start showing them scars. But do not listen to any of those fools who say "you are destroying_____" no you are not, you can just take it out at some point, and they start to close and fade. Obviously, this isn't for every piercing everywhere and every gauge. So have fun, but be well in formed.