I'm 15 and I want my tongue pierced, I have a low pain tolerance but I'm still a bit nervous about the pain! Should I be nervous ? Is the pain really as bad as loads of people make it out to be? (Btw I'm getting it pierced because I like them not because I want it for m boyfriend!) I've watched loads of YouTube videos and Ino the risks and after care I'm just afraid of the pain, If anyone can help me please do ASAP! :)

Yes, there's pain plus cracked teeth, infections, speech problems, food getting stuck around the stud and in the hole, difficulty eating certain foods, employment problems (getting hired), a social stigma.

Your parents are okay with this?

Tongue piercings are causing brain abscesses
You don't realize how many teens in the past week have posted that there is white, yellow or green pus oozing from their tongue piercing that got in the past month

Tongue Piercing, rings, bars, danger, Hepatitis C, Brain Abscesses,Cancer. (http://dochemp.com/tonguepierce.html)

Tongue Piercing Causes Brain Abscess (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/590071/posts)

You have to have parents consent if they will even do it at 15.

Ino all the risks but I really want t done and have wanted it for ages, my parents said I can get it done its for my birthday,my mum is web coming with me, I just needed some answers about the pain as I'm worried, thank you :)

I am sure the tongue is one of the more sensitive areas of your body. Do you have pierced ears? If you do was that painful. Probably double or triple that?

Yes I have my ears pierced and also a cartilage piercing, I didn't feel any of them!

You really want a needle stuck through your very sensitive tongue, a hunk of metal then put in the hole that is formed, and risk infections and even death afterward?

Ok, I guess death would be terrible all over a tongue piercing so I am going to think about it , thanks for your answers it really helped :)