I had my belly button pierced and it rejected and now there is what the piercer says is scar tissue but it may be a keloid. How can I get rid of it? I want to pierce it again and don't want these lumps there. I had it pierced 3 times already lol. The first time had it for 3 years and had to take it out due to pregnancy. 2nd time I had it pierced for 4 months but my baby kept kicking it and caused it to reject. 3rd time I had it pierced but it rejected because my belly ring kept getting caught and tugging. So this time I will be sure none of that happens lol... but I need to know how to get rid of the scar tissue/keloid any help is appreciated!

Wow, it sounds like you have had terrible luck with that piercing. :p

A keloid and scar tissue are the same thing. A keloid is just very overgrown scar tissue.

I can't see it so I don't know how bad it is, but if it is severely overgrown you can talk to your doctor about getting steroid injections. These injections will take away some or most of the bump, and in some cases will get rid of it completely. It takes about 3 months of injections before you start seeing some results, so if you decide to do this, just keep at it! Unfortunately, there is no home remedy to take away this scarring. :)

Unless this piercing is a high priority, I really wouldn't recommend getting it done again. With the high rejection rate, it is very very possible that it could happen again. If you do get it again, here are some things you can do to maybe reduce your chances of rejection:

-get it pierced with a hoop, not a barbell. Hoops tend to not get caught on things like barbells do.

-I don't know if you used salt solutions on your previous piercings, but if you did, don't use them with the next one. Salt is very drying and your bellybutton is a very sensitive area and the slightest thing can cause irritation, infection, and/or rejection.

-Wear long shirts. If you do this, the bottom of your shirts cannot get caught on the piercing.

-Keep it clean! Don't overdo it, but make sure it is clean. Your bellybutton is a haven for bacteria and you want to make sure those nasty little things don't get in your piercing. Clean it twice a day with antibacterial soap for the first two weeks, then after two weeks reduce to once a day. You really shouldn't skip a day of cleaning with your bellybutton.

Good luck and I hope it all goes well for you! :)

I have scar tissue in my belly piercing too. I took it out almost a month ago because I went to the piercing place and they told me it was rejecting. The lady told me to come back to get it re-pierced 5 weeks later when it isn't hard anymore. But its still kind of hard so I'm guessing that's the scar tissue. Can they pierce through that or do I have to wait until it goes away?

i have scar tissue in my belly piercing too. i took it out almost a month ago because i went to the piercing place and they told me it was rejecting. the lady told me to come back to get it re-pierced 5 weeks later when it isnt hard anymore. but its still kind of hard so im guessing thats the scar tissue. can they pierce through that or do i have to wait until it goes away?

It is all up to the piercer whether they pierce through scar tissue. Most piercers I have been to will, but there are a few that will not. Like your piercer told you, the scar tissue is very hard and tough. Some piercers find that a challenge and would rather just not mess with it.

The best way to find out if a piercer will do it for you is to just call around and ask. It couldn't hurt and they are usually always happy to help, plus it saves you a trip from driving around town trying to find someone that will do it for you. Good luck! :)

I also have the same problem with you guys,I had my belly pierce twice and I don't know what seems to be theb problem.. the skin peels off after 3 weeks I mean the skin shrinks to the point that the ring detaches by itself and I had kelloids already it sucks.. my pierced belly doesn't even last for a month until it rejects it heals fast and dries fast.. im planning to have it pierce again for the 3rd time.. any advise?

I've pierced my belly button about 12 times. One can imagine how bad the scarring is. XD
But I suggest for people that have had rejection or have bad scars, just get it pierced at the bottom of your belly button instead of the top. :3
That's what I have now and it's doing very well. That and, I pierced through my cousin's scar tissue once, and the tissue was so tough that the needle actually got stuck... which I'm sure was quite painful for her. XD
As for getting rid of the keloid,
I have three on my chest right now from sternum piercings, and my dermatologist is giving me a series of shots in them to make them go away. So just ask a doctor to help you with them. :]

At the place where I got my tragus and rook done he said to use tea tree oil or their keloid treatment oil

Yeah I've had a keliod on my tragus and when I started using the tea tree oil it started going down quite rapidly so it may do the same for you dudes XD

I got my industrial about a month ago... I just noticed that Im starting to get a keloid? I want to keep my industrial in sooooooo bad but my moms trying to tell me that its just going to get worse so I should take it out.. Im definitley not going to waste 40$$

Any advice? :/

I got a keloid after my belly piercing went all funny "/
I found out that tree tea oil really helps, I saw results in like the first 2 weeks.
You should apply about 2-3 drops too see fast results
So I recommend you buy tree tea oil you can buy it anywhere.

I had my belly done like about in January and it was fine in about April and may I noticed this red bump appearing on the side of my peircing in course of time it got bigger, I went to the doctors they told me it wos a keloid, the gave me sum ointment, its like vaseline to put on it twice a day but that didn't work, it didn't get smaller either, so I stopped using it for a while and noticed it went a little smaller then back big again, and it keeps doing this gets smaller and then big again and then decides to pop and there's blood everywhere, it hurts as well so I can't lye down flat on my stomach, so I don't know what this is, because its like a watery substance as well as blood and that but I fort a keloid was solid piece of skin, which this bump sometimes is!. I don't know what to do, atm the other day it burst and its really scabby and red! Please help!

If you apply a paste made of a crushed aspirin tablet and water to the keloid once a day for 15 to 20 minuts it will literally disolve the keloid. This is not a gentle way of doing it but it works, if your skin reacts badly to this treatment you should use a more gentle method such as applying tea tree oil. Hope this helps.

If you apply a paste made of a crushed aspirin tablet and water to the keloid once a day for 15 to 20 minuts it will literally dissolve the keloid. This is not a gentle method, but it works! If your skin reacts badly to this treatment you should try an alternative method such as applying tea tree oil to the keloid. Hope this helps :)

The same thing happened me to lads! My bellybutton rejected the piercing and all the skin started coming away from the piercing until it was hanging on by literally a tread. I took it out and now I have a scar the size of a one cent coin! I'll definitely try some of those tings up here ^^

Where can you buy the tree tea oil?

I have the same thing but mine is very sever I cnt wear a bathin sutis because a big red dot is on my belly button I want to get rid of it I just don't no how andim only 13 so I cnt get sergery

The way you get rid of a keyloid is by applying ice to the infected area or you can smash them or you can apply scar cream to the area and when you put the scar cream on the area rub it in with your finger tips and make sure it is absorbed into the skin

Geez 12 timesthen I guess you no a lot about peirccings... maybe you can help me... I peiced my cartilage and there's scar tissue around it, the thing is, I don't like were the peircing is and I want to peirce it somewere els. But I want to get rid of th scar tissue so bad!! But I don't know how :S I've had it for a little over 4 months now and I'm not sure what to do... I keep hearing about tea tree oil, but I hear that they get rid of keloids... but what about scar tissue?. I've also heard that H2Ocean helps but I don't want to waste my money if it doesn't. And I also heard about vidamine e oil, that gets rid of scars, but I don't think it will work :/. And I wouldn't want to take steroids or any thing like that. Can you help me :S?!

I'm having the same problem. I had to take it out recently, because it had got ripped out at a fair I had just gone too. So, I tried to re-pierce it, and it just didn't look the same. It seemed thinner! I talked to the lady that would re pierce it for me, but I have to wait a month... But I feel scar tissue.. HOW DO I GET RID OF IT ?

OK this sounds so dumb, but it works... buy h2ocean from any tattoo place, get Qtips take off the cotton parts of the Qtip and soak them in the H2Ocean. Put it on the keloid and put a band-aid on top and sleep with that on every night for 2 weeks and they go away. You will see results the next day(:

I heard that you can put saline solution on it twice a day (for any keloid, in my case my industrial on my ear //: ) which
Basically is contact solution. I just started the regime but it doesn't hurt to try it.. it's a disinfectant. (: Best of luck if you try!

Hey My Name is anisha And I am 13 I got my bellybotton Done a while Ago But I DId have it before And it had scare tissue so I went to the doctor to ask what is should do so it would look better. Well my doctor (Dr. Anne Gordan) gave me an antibiotics it worked after two weeks!! I was so happy and now my belly botton looks a lot better!!



So don't get an injection That HURTS just ask your dr. and get an antibiotic it works and its pain free

I've had awful problems too with my navel piercing. When I first got it pierced last year it got really badly infected and a keloid formed and was very sore that I had to remove it! I got it redone about 3 months ago and the keloid came back, so I decided to see m piercer which had no clue what I was talking about! :/ so I went to another piercing place and the told me it was a keloid! He said that I should clean it twice a day for a week with SEA SALT (not table salt) and tea tree oil and rub the keloid till it breaks down and it should go away! The keloid has shruck but is still there, only because I have stopped using it and haven't cleaned it properly in a while! But tea tree oil is very good and it does work!

I have one as well and I took my piercing out today. I plan to get it repeirced as soon as I get the keloid gone. I haven't had any success with using the tea tree oil while the piercing was in .I began developing another keloid on the entry wound as well so now I have two. The entry keloid is bleeding that is why I took out the ring. I am soaking it with salt water and anti-bacterial soap. I will begin using the tea tree oil and aspirin paste in about 3days. Hopefully this helps me.

Can tea tree oil be used to help a keloid/scar tissue that is already hard and the bell bar has been out for about 2 weeks??

Wel I got my belly pierced last summer and I've been cleaning it and all and one day I was and the tub and it came out and I think it may have keloid but I want to get it periced again so bad I'm very timped to do it myself... any advice.?

I have had my belly button done four times and they are either rejected or got ripped out I am thinking about getting the bottom done but I hate not having the top one pierced do for the girl who had it done 12 times I give you credit because its painful getting it done over and over again lol

I have a reddish scar from when my bellybutton piercing was rejected over a year ago can someone tell me how I can get rid of it?

Looks like this, in the photo

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryony739/7819035766/in/photostream

I have a keloid and I haven't been cleaning it with the salt because I'm getting tired of doing it but I want my piercing to stay in so I decided to keep on cleaning it with my sea salt way, I am getting tea tree oil I really think that will help I really want my piercing to stay in because I already bought bellybutton rings lol and yes I know what my Gage is . But I really hope my bellybutton keloid goes away!

I have a keloid and i havent been cleaning it with the salt because im getting tired of doing it but i want my piercing to stay in so i decided to keep on cleaning it with my sea salt way, i am getting tea tree oil i really think that will help i really want my piercing to stay in because i allready bought bellybutton rings lol and yes i know what my Gage is . But i really hope my bellybutton keloid goes away!


And by the way I'm 14 I got it done on August 10th 2012.

I had surgery to remove a cyst on my chest a year ago and developed a keloid. This was the second keloid I've formed and my surgeon told me that I could get a steroid shot or have it cut off (which could actually make another keloid form). So I opted not to do either.

While in Ulta, I came across this product called "ScarAway." It's a silicone sheet that you put over the keloid. It wasn't expensive so I got it. The directions say it's a 12 week treatment and I'm only on day 9, but I seriously can tell a difference already. You can see my before and after pictures on my beauty blog, just Google "Purging Pretty Beauty Blog." I don't want this site to think I'm spam so I didn't put the link. But I am tracking my progress on there.

Hope this helps :-)

I've had 2 keloids now in 2 different places. Keloids are a result of the piercer not being experienced or not peircing correctly. I'll give 2 examples:
My first keloid I got on my belly botton piercing on the under neath part, and it was not pretty. Most people think that a keloid is a scar formed as a result from the piercing or from not taking care of it. WRONG. It can in some cases be scare tissue if left long enough with out care, but in the early stages is really just a small cyst or infection.
When I saw the keloid on my belly button I had no clue what it was. I had a few piercings and took good care of all of them but never seen this before, however my belly button the guy had trouble piercing. He pierced from the bottom up, and had a hard time getting through the thicker part of my skin pulling back and trying to stick it through harder THREE times!! It was very painful. I have a very high pain tollerance having 9 tattoos and 15 pierincgs none of which were unbearable. He finally got the ring in cleaned it and I was off. A few weeks later the keloid formed, I'm guessing about the size of a small pea? I poked and squeazed at it irritating it more and making it hurt. I finally grabbed a pin and very lightly pricked the edge of it and a large amount of puss (infection) and blood started to come out. Sorry to be gross, but I gently squeezed it dabbed it with a tissue and noticed a significant decrease in the size. I sprayed some H2Ocean (water and sea salt) on it and let it sit over night and I'd say in about... 5 days it was completely healed and gone.
I recently got a piercing on my ear called a "anti-tragus" look it up it's a thick chunk of cartilage across from your tragus and it was pretty painful. Well after I got it pierced... I heard the piercer say, "that was the first one I've ever done" GREEEEAT! I don't recommend getting uncommon piercings unless you ask the piercer if they've done one before, it makes a HUGE difference. Anyway, followed the normal routine spraying it with cleaning solution 2-3 times a day and it has healed rather well, but beginning of this past week a huge keloid started forming, when I noticed it, I tried cleaning it even more often, but that didn't work. I tried looking up some remidies to get rid of them, but I don't know about you, garlic and olive oil, surgery and laser removal weren't something I was willing to try. I have heard that crushing up an advil, adding a small amount of warm water to make a paste like mixture and putting that on the keloid once a day until it goes away will work. (A piercer friend told me that) But I tried what I did last time, I took a sterilized needle, which you can do by letting a needle sit in rubbing alcohol over night. I lightly pricked the keloid in my ear which had grown extremely painful, and immediately puss and blood came out relieving a HUGE amount of pain and pressure. It was almost completely gone. I sprayed it with my cleaning solution cleaned it with a q-tip, repeat and today it pain free and almost keloid free.

NOTE: I do not recommend anyone doing this, I am just sharing my personal experience, and there are differences in keloids (soft- infected hard- scar tissue) I know how difficult and painful they can be and wish everyon the best of luck. Please choose your piercers wisely.

Crush up an asprin and mix it with a bit of warm water and let that sit on the keloid for about 20-30 minutes a day until the keloid goes away. Piercer's secret. =]

Mine is also Like that ! My sisters Navel had that too it took a year for all the scar tissue to fully grow out of the Belly Button.. What I am currently doing is a Salt water And Tea-tree Oil treatment all youl need is

- 100% tea tree oil
-Salt (Sea Salt) Or Table Salt
-Luke Warm water
-Q-Tips

Ok To Begin Wash your hands Really good So Know Germs Get in the belly button That's if you still have a hole But still wash your hands of you don't after that Get your 100% tea-Tree oil & rub it on your Belly button Don't use too much Because your belly button could react badly And Make it even biigger so use a dab then Get the sallt and put it in the luke warm water and use that around your belly button Do That remadey for about 1 month then then the scar Tissue should be gone then you could re pierce

Hi I have my tongue periced and I still have my ring in and there's scar tissue all around the ring how can I get rid of the scar tissue?

Keloids are sometimes permanent and tampering with them can aggravate the scarring. But tea tree oil works wonders.
Good luck xx

I got a keloid after my belly piercing went all funny "/
I found out that tree tea oil really helps, I saw results in like the first 2 weeks.
You should apply about 2-3 drops too see fast results
So I recommend you buy tree tea oil you can buy it anywhere.

Umm how longs have you had your keloid. And thanks because this give me hope :)