Riding with a navel piercing?

[AmIafriendorFoe]

I've been thinking about getting my navel pierced but I'm not sure if it will affect my riding as the piercing takes 6 months-2 years to fully heal. Do you guys think there would be any problems?

[charm24]

My friend has it done, and she doesn't have any problems ! it should be ok if you keep it covered up:D

[AmIafriendorFoe]

Thx:D

[floppy]

just make sur eyou wear comfortable riding trousers, in the beginning i just used to plop a bit of bangage over my ring and tape it up then i use to wear my jodphurs done up loosely.

But rings are a pain..they get hooked more easily..i have a bar now and have nooooo problems

[AmIafriendorFoe]

Yea I've been looking at some really cool bars, although I've heard rings are easier to clean.

[Crazyhorse]

I have had mine done twice and it has never caused any probs. I wear a bar and have fallen onto my belly with no adverse effects!

Hope that helps

Vix

[floppy]

when you get your piercing you should have a ring at first. I dont know any piecer that gives you a bar straight away because you cant clean it properly. you need to have a ring at the beginning so you can turn it around spreading the cleanign stuff through the skin so inside doesnt get infected...you also should wait until 6mths before you change it so that they piercing has heal nicely :)

then after that you dont have to worry so much..you can take your bar out every so often to clean it and while you clean it you can thread your ring back in so you dont worry about closing the hoel out of pokign yoruself too much :)

[chapsi]

Sorry my ignorance, but what's a bar? does it hurt much to have a navel piercing?

[floppy]

belly piercing doesnt hurt at all.

a bar is a piece of semi curved metal with 2 balls one on each end.

Its the same but bigger as the bar you tend to see on peoples faces when they have their eyebrow pierced

[Secret Trick]

I've always had a bar - just personally I don't think rings are better, because they pick up more dirt (fingers, dust, oil, etc etc) but hey that's just me :) My bar is surgical steal, as with the plated piercings, they tend to flake bits off into the wound/hole and means there's a bigger chance of infection (so says my piercer lol :rolleyes: )

Can't think of anytime it's gotten in the way of the horses! Although floppy is right - at the beginning, I guess until it's healed a bit it can get a bit sore in general (usually from catching it on shirts etc) but after a couple of months you don't even notice it's there!

[Pollski]

OK.

I've had my tum pierced with both a ring and a bar.

The ring went manky because it kept on knocking against jeans etc. The place I went to was one of the top places in London and they did it incorrectly (too deep). After 6 months of perserving with the ring I had to take it out and let it heal. This place said that you couldn't do it with a bar hence me having to have a ring.

Second time I went to a different place and had a bar put it. I didn't look back and am totally happy with it. Also, if you have a bar you can have lovely little sparkly stones first time round, instead of plain metal if you have the ring - especially as you can't change a piercing for at least 3 months (boring !).

All my friends who've had a ring have had problems, bars can rest agains the stomach and so don't stick out so much hence less knocks. Make sure you go to a licenced place - a place where your friends have been to and where they're happy with the service and after care advice. If they've had problems, avoid it like the plague.

As long as you clean your piercing morning and evening and DO NOT fiddle with it all the time you should be fine - also if you do any form of water sport keep it dry using waterproof plasters. If you're worried about knocks, stick a plaster over it to avoid pulling.

They also call it a banana as the bar has a slight curve.

Good luck ! I hope your decision 'to pierce or not to pierce' is right for you !

xPx

[mojo]

Well I had a bar and found it vey uncomfortable. The only way I could ride was if I rolled the waistband of my jodphurs down. Then I developed a rash, an allergic reaction from the metal stud on my Jods and took it out for a week or so and when I tried to put it back in, it appeared that one of the holes had healed up. so that was that. I have an allergy to nickel and cheap metal though!. If you have any kind of allergy to metal I would think twice!

[KarinUS]

I started out with a ring and then switched to a bar (find it much more attractive).
For the first couple of weeks after getting it I made 'donut' from twisted papertowels and tapend it over the piercing, so that the donut hole would be right over the piercing and the breeches could rest on the donut rather than the piercing.

Does that make sense? Cheap and worked fabulously...

[amymaire20011]

i have had my navel peirced twise first by a very expensive exclusive peircing studio they done it wrong to long for the small bar they put in! :mad:

second time round i went to a clean well remarked place and had another bar fitted this looks gorgeous and ive had no problems. If you wear jodpurs that are tight around the waist i suggest a small plaster just incase but other wise i myself have never experienced a problem.
I love my belly button peircing and have never regreted it but think long and hard and ask all the questions you have before hand good luck!!!!!!!:D


P.S go to someone who doesnt use the plastic tubing to hold the hole while they insert the ring/bar it takes longer and is much more painfull then the quick and older approch!!!!!!



amymarie20011@hotmail.com

[qwerty]

I had mine dome with a plastic bar 1st! it's wierd! hehe!
It did hurt me! Can't say that shoving a piece of metal through u doesn't hurt!
I have a bar and never had any probs. Covered it up for the 1st few weeks whenI rode but it's fine now. Only time I had 2 watch it was dismounting incase a stirrup caught it! never did tho!