I stretched too fast, need some help please

[corazon_de_oro]

If your ears are truly ready to stretch, you should have no problem putting in a taper all at once (unless you're skipping a size or something). When you wait long enough between sizes, your ears will loosen up on their own and stretch up to the next size with no pain and very little resistance.

If you use a taper over the course of a few days, the back of the fistula is going to shrink around the back of the taper and go through more trauma being stretched than the front. That could lead to blowouts, tears, etc very easily.

[basslinebaby]

thanks for the info...I didn't know that I was doing it wrong :/ well, no help for it now I suppose, I'm currently just waiting on being able to fit my 2g double flare plugs in. I did switch the tapers between front and back so that the hole would stretch evenly...not sure if that would have helped or not.....

[basslinebaby]

quick update : went up to 0g and my ears took a definitive turn for the worse. So i downsized back to my 4g and left them for about a month, and today I got back up to my 2gs, and everything looks good. Thanks for all the advice guys!

[corazon_de_oro]

If you decide to go back up to 0G, try to get some 1G jewelry in between... 2G to 0G is a huuuuge jump and most people do run into problems with it. Glad to hear your lobes are doing better!

[basslinebaby]

Finally back up at a 0g. Did them in 24 hours, slowly, not using a taper. Lots of vitamen e oil and massaging. So far, everything looks promising

[bradykay90]

Im staying out of it.