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So I wad banded on the 20th and my belly button looks weird! Is it going to be noticeable when the swelling and scars go away? Also I still can't Put my belly ring back in. It looks like the hole is closed? I don't know If I'm still swollen tho?

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After my first band surgery I nearly cried when my doc showed me my belly button the day after surgery. It looked so gross and weird, I nearly regretted the surgery because it looked so bad. After a few weeks I tried to put back in my belly button piercing with no luck. Then I tried to put in the piercing from the top hole down and out came a whole lot of something that had gotten into the piercing and that was causing the trouble at the bottom hole.

So why dont you try putting in the piercing from the top down just to see if it fits. If it doesn't try a smaller piercing just to get the hole started again. After 4 surgeries on my belly button now, it works every time for me

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Funny that I just tried doing that last night and it wouldn't poke through... Inserting front the top to bottom :( it goes half way through and then stops, seems like bottom is closed ugh annoyed! Thanks for the reply:)

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Funny that I just tried doing that last night and it wouldn't poke through... Inserting front the top to bottom :( it goes half way through and then stops, seems like bottom is closed ugh annoyed! Thanks for the reply:)

You might need to really push through. I had to pick at the bottom hole a bit because there was stuff closing it over. Don't lose hope you can do this. Again if it doesnt work try a thinner piercing to break through and then go back to your bigger one.

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I did it!!!! my boyfriend thinks im crazy because I wouldnt give up! I kept wiggling it and then finally it came out from the bottom....yup the bottom hole was closed. I think it took like 20 minutes lol but phew its in there because I really didnt want to go back and get it re-done and then another scar around the belly button! but my incision is looking pretty good now and plus the ring is covering it alil :P But hopefully in the end it will all go away! I cant wait to start putting mederma on it so hopefully i wont have a scar. Do you have a scar?

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My belly button does not look nice either. There is a "hole" there now, not swollen. I can't imagine the hole just filling in after time, but who knows. I guess it will get better but I'm not so happy with that, I would have preferred the 4 little scars around my abdomen.

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