Posted on 10/17/2006 2:17:36 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
CHICAGO -- Her doctor says the teenager with "horrendous pain" in her face was lucky it went away -- when she removed her tongue jewelry.
A nerve disorder sometimes called "suicide disease" because of its excruciating pain is among the latest complications linked to tongue piercing.
The complaint detailed in the Journal of the American Medical Association joins a list that includes tetanus, heart infections, brain abscess, chipped teeth and receding gums. One woman developed so much scar tissue it resembled what she called a "second tongue."
An Italian neurosurgeon who reported the nerve affliction says it's an "extremely rare complication." But the patient in the report -- now 21 -- says her advice to people considering tongue piercing is, don't do it.
...according to my husband, men who see a woman with a tongue piercing think she is easy.... that's another down side to piercing one's tongue.
No pictures, please.
Damn...
An oral-athelete...
IBTDHTPP!
(In before the disgusting Helen Thomas picture posting...)
Whovever you are...please don't.
...that is what he says. But, that being said, how many decent, normal, conservative, G-d fearing men appreciate it when their wives are good oral atheletes. Probaby 99.9%,
TMI.
Oral athlete. LOL A man is a man, conservative doesn't change that. ;)
Can teens legally have these piercings without parental consent? If so the parents haven't a brain either.
I think you mean "If not, the parents haven't a brain either." If it's legal for teens w/o parental consent, it is the legislature and/or whatever regulatory board handles businesses providing piercings and tattoos in their locality that is brainless.
Piercings on a woman anywhere but in her ears...or tattoos anywhere on a woman...says to me "cheap tramp".
I learned long ago that cheap tramps of either gender are to avoided...and ridiculed.
My mother and father taught me that.
And that is absolutely, 100%, without reservation, the correct conclusion.
...tmi? I just gave the statistics...
I can only imagine how painful that could get. I played a lot of pickup basketball until I was 20 - I got five severely sprained ankles and even a hairline fracture of my right fibula but kept on playing with all those injuries. But only two injuries made me quit a game - when I split open my chin and had to go for stitches, and when I got an accidental elbow to the chin that made me bite down on my tongue so hard one tooth almost went through it. It wasn't the severity of the injury that made me stop (the bleeding stopped almost right away) - it was the pain that was so intense I could barely see.
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