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    BrunetteGoddess
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    I had my navel pierced when I was 19, let it close a year after because I got bored with it. Now 2 years later something funky is happening.

    Every once in a while I can see there's some white, not quite liquidy, but a ball of skin textured ...crud in there. I can squeeze it out of the old hole and it's just like a ball of skin, but it smells gross.

    What the hell is it? Scar tissue?

    Is this normal for old piercing sites?

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    MsQwerty
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    Its probably lymph.

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    BrunetteGoddess
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    What is that?!

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    Default Re: Old Piercing Question

    something similar happens to my current navel piercing, but alas, I also do not know what it is.

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    Just calcium deposits. Take a small bathroom cup and fill it with peroxide and put it over your navel. That way if it is an infection - the peroxide will clean it up
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    It's most likely sebum. Just your natural skin oils, dead skin cells, etc that build up inside the hole and don't get out naturally. Ear funk or cheese is what it's also called since it gathers up in stretched earlobes a lot. It's perfectly normal for any healed piercing, whether there's jewelry in the hole or not it'll keep happening.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jo Weldon
    I believe lots of men have the flip side of the coin when it comes to the "white knight" fantasy. They'd LOVE to be a white knight. But they usually don't really have it in them.

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    Yuck. Thanks A. I know it's not infected, was just curious what it was.

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