Originally posted by popcornbird
Just a question. Doesn't having jewelry on your tongue hurt/annoy you when you eat?
When I was first pierced, the piercer had to use a very long 3/4 inch barbell. I wore that barbell for about 3 weeks and during that time I was miserable. My tongue swelled horribly at first, but once the swelling went away I was left with an unnecesarilly long bar in my mouth. During this time it did hurt to eat and I found that I kept biting the bar (though never hard enough to do any damage). Once my piercing was old enough, I was able to be properly fitted with a shorter barbell. Now it is almost impossible to bite my barbell and most of the time I can't even feel that it's there. So, no it doesn't annoy or hurt me. It is difficult to suck on a lollipop or to lick an ice cream cone because of the bar in the middle of my tonuge, but once the piercing is healed it isn't painful at all. COme to think of it, even the piercing itself wasn't painful for me. He just poked the needle up through the bottom and it was over in about 2 seconds. He had me count backwards from 3, but stuck the needle in when I got to two. Most of the time I don't even notice that it is there