I had my ears pierced way back in high school and everything was OK. I won’t go into the time that my dad tried to pierce my ears with a needle and ice, with his giant fingers and my tiny ear lobes.
I even got a piercing way up on my ear in the cartilage and enjoyed that for a while. It was the late 70s and double-piercing your ear lobes was just starting to be a thing, so I did that too. That didn’t go so well.
They got really sore and I couldn’t wear earrings in those holes. I don’t know the exact progression of things but at some point I couldn’t even wear the first, regular piercings. As soon as I’d put earrings in my ear lobes would start to itch, and turn bright red.
I’d heard of people being allergic to metals and I thought that was what had happened to me, too. So I stopped wearing earrings. For about THIRTY years!
I sold a lot of earrings over the years. Early on I learned that many could not wear the sterling and/or pure silver that I used. I kept a supply of surgical steel hooks for those with problems. I eventually switched out and kept all earrings on the steel hooks and supplied the silver on request due to the steel staying nice looking during all the outdoor markets I did.
Hi Lori – I also have often had the same problem and as you did, I solved it by putting a small amount of Polysporin on the earring hook before I put it in my ear! As long as I do this, I never seem to have a problem!
Yes! What an easy fix!