Updated on January 2nd, 2022, to add more information.
On May 18th, 2019, I finally took the dive and got my septum piercing done. I had been thinking about getting my nose pierced for years and years, but I felt it was a big commitment. As someone who travels so much, I didn’t want to deal with aftercare while in another country, but May seemed like a great time with not many events in the horizons. Before getting a septum piercing, I did do some research and read loads of posts about this specific nose ring, but I do feel that there were many aspects that just were not touched on.
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Is a Septum Piercing Painful?
When it comes to getting your septum pierced, the very worst and most painful thing is the scissor device that is used like a stencil to guide the needle in. This metal device does pinch a lot and is quite painful – for me, it was more painful then that actual needle that went into my nose.
After your piercer picks a ring for you, normally a bar or horseshoe depending on if you want to hide the piercing, they line up this device into your nose before inserting the needle, which has a plastic bit of straw that will keep the hole filled. Once this is done, the plastic shell will be removed and replaced with your ring.
You will cry during this. There is something about the nerves within your nose that make you cry. I started tearing up as soon as the metal device was inserted, but what I wasn’t prepared for was the amount of blood. When getting your ears pierced, I didn’t actually bleed a lot, but my nose did. Once the ring is in and I was cleaned up, things were pretty numb and good!
Do Septum Piercings affect Breathing?
While your septum piercing is healing, it will affect your breathing the most. As your nose and nostrils are swollen right after you get the piercing, the passage in your airway is restricted. This is only temporary and does not, in any way, completely cut off your breathing. The piercing itself is an obstruction of your nose, which does limit your breathing a bit, but unless you are putting huge, heavy piercings on the end of your nose, this is something you won’t notice and it will not play any sort of role in your day to day life after your piercing.
Healing Times & After Care
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The septum piercing itself takes ages to heal, a whole 6 to 8 months to fully heal, though you can change out the ring at the 6 to 8 week mark. Pain and swelling is basically gone after 3 weeks.
During this healing time, but especially at the start of it, you’ll need to clean your nose often. This looks like one of two things; either taking small cups of warm salt water and putting them up to your nose, blowing bubbles for one minute or taking cotton balls with warm salt water on it and pressing it to the insides of your nose for about a minute. Doing these actions will pull blood and snot out of your nose and clean your piercing, as well as help the healing process go smoothly.
It’s pretty important to not move your ring around much during the first few weeks of healing. Moving your ring will result in blood and pain to your nose, as well as harm your healing time. The ring will move on it’s own, being off center, but you need to just leave it be. If you must move it, it’s important to do your after care cleaning first, as it will likely soften and remove any dried gunk around the holes in your nose, making it easier to move. If you don’t, you’ll end up bleeding and harming the healing process.
Catching Your Septum Piercing On Everything
The septum piercing is one that is in the center of your face. It’s hanging off of your nose, so you will be catching it on stuff. Catching on clothing happened to me more often then catching it on my pillow, but both hurt equally. What also happens, especially at the start of getting your piercing put in, is your brain thinking you need to pull it out of your nose. I have had my septum piercing for nearly 4 months at this point and just the other day I pulled at it suddenly, resulting in a good amount of pain coursing through my nose.
Catching your septum piercing on various things is going to happen, especially if you like sleeping on pillows or kissing other people, but this pain does go away after a while. At the 4 months mark, I still get sore from time to time after catching it again or a stuffy nose. At the 6 month mark, I experienced no pain at all.
Colds, Crying, Nose Running
Speaking of stuffy noses, getting sick might happen within the long healing time. If you, like me, blow your nose often, you’ll likely find your nose sore. This isn’t as bad as the initial amount of pain, but it’s still there and worth considering. I don’t have allergies that cause my nose to run, but sometimes squeezing the tip of my nose to blow it will just result in so much pain. I started to learn to be a bit more gentle in blowing my nose, taking more time to do it, which results in a cleaner piercing and less pain. When you do have a stuffy nose or lots of snot, there is a chance that it will end up on your ring. You can easily wash the ring in your nose by doing your after care cleaning or by taking the piercing out and cleaning it with solution.
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I did not end up with an infection, due to the level of after care I took when it came to keeping my nose clean. Signs of infection often include a copper taste in your mouth, which I have not experienced, but it doesn’t sound very good.
Hiding your Septum Piercing
There are many reasons you might want to hide your septum piercing. When I got mine done, I was a full adult who does not have parents, a job that would care, or any reason to not show it off. When I got my septum pierced, I expressed that I would not be hiding it, and as a result did get a bigger ring to show off! If you are planning on hiding your septum piercing, you should tell your piercer before they have picked the ring for you, that way they can advise you on a ring that would be easy to tuck up. You will be hiding your septum piercing by flipping your piercing, so that the bull ring piercing is up inside your nose. This is a bit painful to do when your nose is freshly pierced, but you can do so two to three times a day, without it affected your healing time. You should ensure that there isn’t a build up of gunk around your ring before you flip it up. You may want to dampen a towel, hold it a bit inside your nose, to loosen anything there before flipping your ring up.
Changing Your Ring
Yesterday, I changed my ring for the first time! I switched out the traditional horse shoe ring for a crown ring. Horse shoe rings, you see, are a bit more than half circles, with two balls or spikes at either side. Some can be pushed up into your nose and hidden, however mine could not as I picked a long one, as mentioned above. To insert horse shoe rings into your septum piercing, you’ll just remove one of the balls and slide it in. It’s simple and straight forward.
I switched over to a crown ring, which is almost like a badge clip and is a bit more complex to put in. When it came to removing my horse shoe ring, I struggled to get the circles screwed off, but once they were, could easily slip the ring out. From there, I took the pin end of my new ring and ran it slowly up and down the inside of my nose until it caught the hole. I softly pushed it in, and then took on the challenge of clipping it. Unlike horse shoe rings, which can be closed outside of your nose, crowns need to be clipped inside your nose. This results in a lot of pushing on your nose and moving the ring around to uncomfortable places in hopes of not catching it on your skin.
But, once you do get your crown ring in, it’s in! And it’s probably staying as you shouldn’t really change your septum piercing all that often. I’m quite happy with my ring and really enjoy the proportions on my face. This piercing is literally my favorite body modification at the moment. After making the decision and taking the time to make sure the piercing healed, I am more than happy with the result.
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