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About three weeks ago I finally convinced a friend of mine to drag me into
Philadelphia so I could get my tongue pierced. I'm 17, which meant that I had
to do a bit of shopping around before I found a place that would pierce me,
but the one I picked was incredible. I have six earrings in each ear, but no
tattoos or body piercings, do I didn't really know what to expect. After the
paperwork, I was taken into a smaller room in the back, and was laid down on a
chair that was almost identical to one in a doctor's office. The man who
pierced me really knew what he was doing, he gave me the play-by-play
throughout the piercing. After rinsing initially with listerine, he drew a
dot where the piercing would go, and let me see it. After drying the tongue
off with gauze, he told me to relax (he asked constantly if i was feeling
alright, since he'd been through a lot of cases where the people passed out
during the process). I closed my eyes, felt a little pinch on my tongue, and
looked up to see what it looked like in the mirror. I was so amazed at how
painless it was, since I had heard the tongue was the most painful place to
get it done in. There was a little bleeding after it was done, and a little
the first two mornings, but nothing else. Ice was a necessity the first week,
and I lived off of ice cream and slurpees for awhile. Talking was a different
story, though it was even fun trying to learn how to talk with it again. I'm
going in tomorrow to get a smaller bar, the whole rush of getting it done was
really great, and I have no regrets at all about getting it, I love the thing
:).
-Joshua
Experience Added 03/11/99