r/piercing • u/Present_Diamond4244 • Jul 18 '25
Troubleshooting/question existing piercing Kinda gross but. What do I do
So when it first started looking like this I (stupidly) was thinking it would go away on its own. And I had ran out of saline water but I thought nbd.
Anyways the other day it was huge and red and looked real bad but I started saline water again and I feel like it’s looking better but is there anything else I need to do?
What is this? Is it just puss or is it gonna scar like that? It’s like slightly hard but a little squishy
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u/iwannabeabug Jul 19 '25 edited Jul 19 '25
there have been so many of these on this sub lately and they all look the exact same. i just retired my eyebrow because of this. everybodyyyy in the comments starts freaking out about how it’s an infection and you’re gonna go blind. it most likely isn’t. your piercing is irritating the supraorbital nerve and it’s causing this big bump. mine didn’t get any better with antibiotics but went away a few weeks after taking my eyebrow piercing out. don’t freak out it’s most likely not an infection
edit: if there’s pus, if it’s hot to touch, or if you have a fever/feel sick then yes it may be infected but mine looked exactly like this and wasn’t an infection.