Hardball (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:23 pm Forty years ago, I made a PA piercing and used aircraft safety wire to keep it open 0.06". Then I forgot about it 30 years later, I occasionally put a 14 gauge ring in, and it eventually stretched to 8g. I am no longer interested in it; without a ring, it diverts too much flow, and I have to sit. I am sure it will not close on its own, so I would like advice from anyone who has done it. Thanks in advance.

Rory Smoot (imported) wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:58 pm Hardball, here's what I did with a piercing I no longer wanted. It was in the edge of my glans, pretty much like your PA. Mine was somewhere between 14 and 16 gauge. I got my supplies together. I got cotton balls, a couple band-aids, some isopropyl alcohol, a tube of antibiotic ointment, and most importantly, a new drill bit that was the equivalent of 12 gauge wire. I wanted a bit that was factory-sharp and larger in diameter than my piercing. I cleaned my hands and skin thoroughly with antibacterial soap and water. I sterilized the drill bit, first in boiling water, then in isopropyl alcohol. Then I gripped the drill bit between my thumb and forefinger, and ran it through the hole, back and forth, changing the angles just a little bit each time. I probably made 12 passes. I wanted to shave off the skin that had formed, so that it would effectively be like a brand-new piercing, and would heal like any puncture wound. I needed to use a few cotton balls, that I poured some isopropyl alcohol on, to clean the shaved skin off the bit several times, and to clean what was pushed or pulled out of the ends of the piercing. It didn't hurt too badly. I didn't use any lidocaine-based lotion to deaden the pain, because I was trying to keep things as sterile as possible. It bled, but not too badly, and was nothing that I couldn't control by pressing down on the wound with my cotton balls. When the bleeding stopped, I put some antibiotic ointment on it and applied a band-aid tightly. I changed this dressing each day for several days, each time with antibiotic ointment and a new band-aid. After several days, I no longer need the band-aid because the holes at each end had scabbed over. Then I left it alone. Every week or so, I rolled the area where the piercing had been with my thumb and forefinger. For the first few months, I could still feel a "tube" as though the piercing was still there, under the surface of the skin. After about 6 months, I couldn't feel that tube anymore. Likewise, there were small dots at the two ends of the piercing, that became less and less apparent over about 6 months. That's been 2 years ago now, and I have no trace of that piercing. (I'm not a doctor, and I am not suggesting that you do this, but this is what worked for me.)