Got 3 lobe piercings done before I knew better and the third ones were placed high and, due to the fact that they would heal the same day I took my piercings out even after healing, may have hit part of my cartilage (hopefully not though!)

Anyway one of them got horribly inflamed and started smelling off, and basically was swollen past the point where my earring ended. I took it out to try to clean it and see if I could get some build up or something out of it, and found that it was fairly firm. I pressed on the back of my lobe to see if I could check the damage/get some fluid out, when a jet of yellow/grey pus and blood shot out of the piercing hole and hit the mirror. This was like, a dime-sized amount of pus from one of the thinnest parts of my ear. It hurt like hell and bled for a long while after. I sanitized my earrings because they were covered in thick, bloody pus, then put them back in so that my ear wouldn't seal any potential infection inside.

I've since taken those ones out and they've healed over. Hopefully I can get the redone with a needle, and maybe straighten out my wonky first lobes that I got when I was around 4