8mm Conch punch journey
I thought I'd share my experience with a conch dermal punch "piercing".
I've taken some progress photos. Mostly it's been a bad healing phase, but it's my own fault due to not taking care of it (I sometimes work away so I wasn't giving it the proper care).
So I got my conch punched at 6mm then stretched up to 8mm. My piercer used a screw back tunnel which didn't agree with my ear eventually. On top of that my 4 year old son head butted my conch. Which sucked btw.
My original plan was to put glass in it to help it heal. I swapped to an 8mm glass plug from customplugs which felt nice to begin with.
Eventually working away gave me an infection as I didnt take the correct cleaning stuff with me.
I ended up getting a bacterial skin infection which antibiotics cleared up.
I've now down sized and swapped to a 6mm glass plug to see if the healing would improve and it has greatly!
I think the extra 2mm stretch was causing issues since cartilage isn't great at stretching to begin with.
Here's some of my progress photos. I didn't take them to share, but decided I would as it may help people decide whether or not they want this and the kind of issues I've had.