I just swallowed one of my tongue stud balls, thanks to the nougat stickiness of the mars bar. Of course, it was the more expensive, custom-made ball. *big pout*
Two questions arise….
1. Will my hole stay open til I get home and replace ball?
2. Could I bear to ‘find’ the swallowed ball, and even if I can bring myself to do that, would I ever wear it again? Eew….
Now my tongue feels naked 🙁
In case you’re wondering, the answer to
question #2 is NO!
It’s not so much the cleanliness as the
knowledge of where it’s been that just wouldn’t
work.
Yeah, exactly. Not that it would ever be going in my mouth again…I have other piercings requiring balls. It’s just hard to let $100+ of jewellry go down the drain, so to speak. Ouch! Why oh why can’t I be happy with steel just like everyone else?
Are you prepared to pay $100 to not have to
poo in a pot and search through it? ‘Coz I sure
as hell would be. Think of it in those
terms.
Well, as long as you sterilised it properly it should be fine. It’s really the `finding it’ part which is less than fun. Requirements – seive, gloves, antiseptic, empty stomach.
I agree with tomble.
I’m it’s your shit, not someone elses..
(sorry but after all the nappies I’ve changed and arses I’ve wiped, you get a little blase about shit)
I say retrieve it. $100+ and sentimental value, right?
The hassle from my point of view would be the frequency of attempts… so I’d be going the enema and sieve. Gloves an absolute must.
No more mars bars for you!
Reminds me of when I snapped my braces on a toffee. i’m sure that was more than $100… my parents were *not* impressed.
I know how it is…I very nearly did that once. I felt the ball going down my throat, but rather than just swallow it, I half vomited it back up. Not so pleasant, but neither is sifting through your own feces or having your hole close up (which it most definitely will–and fast–mine starts to close after as little as three days) and having to get it repierced.
The choices left to you are neither fun nor pleasant, so I wish you the best of luck! Oh!…Or you could go to amerika-mura in Osaka and buy a replacement to tide you over until you can get back home and get the one you really want. I don’t know prices, but I do know that studs are available.
Don’t be such a girl!
One time, Becca had a party at her pad in Brunswick. Me and Ollie were uncharacteristically very drunk and Bec was even worse off. We were chatting to her while she was waiting for the dunny. Eventually someone vacated the facilities and she staggered in.
Ol and I kept talking until my little drunkard fell back out into the hall and mumbled, “My tongue-stud fell into the toilet.”
After having a massive shit, she felt the artistic desire to chunder half a bottle of ouzo and a few mouthfuls of party food into the bowl as a chaser. The jewellery joined the exodus.
I gallantly tried to make my way to the door, but Ollie beat me to it and boldly declared that he would find it. Unfortunately, he walked straight back out again in a fit of sudden sobriety and ushered me through.
Mission accomplished, she sat it in vinegar for a while and stuck it back in her gob while I made use of a lot of soap.
I think the drunkeness kind of helped the old courage. My advice; grab a dozen bottles of the cheapest rotgut you can find and get sifting, Tank Girl! Then you can have a dinnertime story as pleasant as mine.
Magnet!
Ooh yes! I like that idea!!
Yeah, I actually am. It just seems such a waste to buy twice what I’ve already bought once. Plsu it was specially made and I had to wait two years for them to find a jeweller who would make it. Not counting on it being replaceable. Fortunately I had two made, one for another piercing which I haven’t worn yet. So the spare is currently in my mouth, screwed on tightly and scroogness is overcoming squeamishness.
Funnily enough, nappies was something that I thought of when trying to decide what to do!
I am wondering how long I have to wait before it makes it way through…or if it could get stuck somewhere along the way and leave me with a little gold ball in my stomach somewhere.
As for enema, have no idea how to do one, or where to get one here. Thinking fibre and patience is the way to go.
oooh, don’t remind me of fast-closing holes. When I first changed down bars, four weeks after the initial piercing, I awoke to discover the top ball missing and the hole closing up. Before checking my bed for the ball, I decided to push the bar through to keep the hole open. So I did, and lo and behold, the ball had not fallen off, it was still firmly attached to the bar…the tongue had healed OVER the ball, so much in my short 5 hour sleep that I had no idea the ball was in there. Very scary.
So today at work I periodically put the bar through the hole. Even so, when I got home and got spare ball, I had to push the bar through some healing tissue. Damn, but the tongue heals fast!
I’ve had it come off once before with eating, but I felt it immediately. Oh, and I’ve had someone kiss it off, twice! Very bizarre!
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Can I? Can I really? Oh boy, oh boy. I’ve always wanted a charming dinnertime story such as those Ivanski always has!!!! Yup, got the gloves, chopstick (instead of sieve) and plate all in the toilet ready. Time to get intimate with my inner workings, and its waste!!!!
Very impressive of Bec to manage the reinsertion of the tongue stud – changing balls takes me long enough when I’m sober, can’t imagine I could ever do it drunk….otherwise I would definitely go the alcoholic influence option!
That’s meant to be, yes, I am prepared to sift through poop to avoid buying it again, or no, i’m not prepared to fork out another $100 odd just cos I’m squeamish. It can be used for another piercing where the thought of where it’s been really has no effect.
After almost losing it once, I now make sure that the looser of the two balls is on the bottom side of my tongue. That way, if it does get jostled off, it will just get stuck under my tongue and not follow that easy access path down my throat as it would on the top.
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You know, I’ve seen some pretty weird (and terrifying) japanese porn stuff (thanks to sensibleerection.com). I reckon you could find some middle aged office worker guy with a strange fetish, who would PAY you for the opportunity to find it.
Gahh.. I can’t believe I wrote that.
How do you make sure the looser is on the bottom?
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I could do with the extra pocket money for the tat i’m getting…..
Whenever you take out your piercing, usually one ball is more likely to be the one that unscrews than the other. So, whichever one comes off when I unscrew it always gets screwed on under the tongue when it goes back in.
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jesus christ
there goes my brain down the toilet
ewwww