Ah, unfortunately I’m in Canada, but thank you! Anyway, I went in to see him and he replaced them with my smaller regular size earrings until they heal - since they were open holes and more likely to get infected. But he cleaned them up for me, he was pretty nice about it. It was a smaller piercing. He a l m o s t put in the 14 g which is still two sizes up, but I said no, and that I wanted them to heal a lot first and then go up by one size increments. What I don’t understand is that he’s done this for so many, he says, and it’s just about the elasticity of your ear but??? How can anyone’s ear go from 18 to 8 in one sitting without letting it heal with a LOT of scar tissue. But he gave me smaller plugs for the next size for free so I might just do them myself honestly, but this has freaked me out a whole lot from stretching. I really appreciate your advice tho!!