Originally posted by Sirrahsim
Can you sleep comfortably on the tragus piercing now? I remember having the upper cartilage on my ear pierced and not being able to sleep on it for MONTHS!
I've been able to sleep on my tragus piercing for about three weeks. I'm still washing it with Provon when I shower, to make sure it keeps on healing. The piercer couldn't believe how good it looked!

I also got pierced with surgical grade steel, whereas lots of people who do the "normal" cartilage piercing go to a piercer and get it done with a gun (and low grade metals.) It's more traumatic to the site, and more bruising occurs.

When I got my second holes back done they wouldn't heal (done in a beauty shop with a gun.) I was actually allergic to the earrings I was pierced with and eventually just let them close up.