1 /5 Amber Hardwick: Very Scary Experience...
Ive had my dimples pierced twice before. This is not my first rodeo. Aaron was my piercer. The visit was professional, I expressed my concern for the jewelry being long enough as this was a problem before with a different piercer. He assured me he had never used anything longer than what was prepped. Fine. Piercing felt great. Bought some mouthwash and left. About an hour afterwards I started to feel severe discomfort in the left cheek. It felt like it was rubbing against something in my cheek and when I would smile, that side of my cheek would twitch! I also started having very ABNORMAL swelling in that one cheek. It was swelling into my neck and eye area.The other cheek is healing just fine.This was done on a Saturday. They are closed Sunday and Monday. So I called Tuesday and expressed my severe concern for my FACE! I know piercing a nerve can happen... so I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt to make this wrong , right. I told them everything, including the twitching of face.... I was completely disregarded and was told that if it WAS NOT eating the jewelry, there was NOTHING they could do. I was shocked, saddened by the lack of empathy and professionalism. I have since been to my Doctors office and he confirmed my nerve was damaged. He gave me antibiotics to help with healing. It has been removed. But I hope and pray I DO NOT end up with any kind of PERMANENT damage.
