TIFU by messing with my nose piercing.

Warning, contains mentions of vomit and blood.

Well, this wasn't today that I fucked up, but at the start of this week. Cue me watching some movies with my younger sibling, enjoying some delicous pizza. After eating I decided to start fidgeting with my nose piercings, which I know you shouldn't do but for context, a month prior I switched out my jewelry from hoops to push pin nose studs, and did not know how they open. So I wanted to test it out.

While the movie is playing I am pulling in opposite directions trying to take the stud out, starting to think, "what if it can't come out." Three seconds after that thought I feel a click and pop, then hear the piercing hit the ground. I pick it up and start to look for the other piece, which just so happened to be the inside piece. It was late at this point and the other piece was nowhere to be found, so I decided to give up and check underneath the couch the next day.

I head to bed.

The next day I wake up, get ready for school, and look under the couch, still can't find the piercing, so at this point I just switch out the absence of my piercing for one of my old hoops.

Then I continue the day as normal. But for some reason I start to increasingly feel sick, almost like the feeling you get when you don't eat, but I can't handle the idea of eating any food either, which is weird because I never feel this way. My day continues on as normal.

The loss of the piercing happened on Monday, and it is now Tuesday.

I go to my friends house, go to the gym, and then head back home and do some homework and cleaning. Then go to bed.

The next day I did the same rodeo of getting ready for school, but this time when I sat down to eat breakfast, I really could barely stomach it, I felt as if I was gonna throw up even looking at and smelling the food. I then head to school, and go home afterwards.

My family decides to take me out to a sushi restaurant, and I absolutely love sushi. But I have this same absent hunger feeling, paired with a feeling of constant car sickness. The thought of eating makes everything 10x worse. But I push myself through it because I know my body needs nutrients. So I pick up a dumpling with my chopsticks, and bite it right in half. I feel even worse.

I take a piece of salmon sashimi and eat it. Again. Even worse. To the point where I had to go to the bathroom because I felt so sick. After 5 minutes of waiting this sickness through, I head back to the table. And eat a couple more pieces, the feeling comes back. At this point I really do feel like throwing up, so I quickly get up and briskly walk towards the washroom again. Gagging and coughing at the same time.

I open the stall and in quick succession my mouth forces itself open. Followed by an arch of vomit, that somehow landed in the toilet from the distance I was at. Almost like in the movies where a demon is excorsised from someone and their mouth opens wide followed by the endless black smoke. But my body was not close to done. I stood over the toilet, and the exact same amount came out 6 more times, gag, vomit, repeat. And it was a concerning amount, the most I have ever puked in my life. I swore I could've filled at least one 4 litre jug. There is also liquid pouring from my nose at this time.

I get up, flush the toilet, and head to the bathroom sink, grab some paper towel, and wipe my nose. Only to find super bloody snot coming out. I look in the mirror with a slight upward tilt, and see something metal in my nose, encased by the blood. I grab another piece of paper towel, and blow my nose. Only to find the piercing in it.

Today is now Thursday, and I feel so sick to my stomach that I had to miss school, I feel incredibly dizzy, and am extremely anxious that I got an infection in my nose. Which could mean something realllyyyyy bad.

TL;DR: Messed with new stud piercings, and the backside ended up flying up into my nose, I had no idea. Started feeling really sick throughout the week, threw up like crazy, and piercing came out of my nose along with bloody snot. Absolutely terrified I have an infection in my nose now.