One Response for "Do you guys think this is normal behavior for a somewhat-new ROOK PIERCING?"

1. selena gomez March 14th, 2010 at 6:34 am 1

   Best Answer – Chosen by Voters Though I don't have any piercing on my inner ear cartilage, I do have 3 around the outer ear cartilage (an industrial and a helix) which i've had for 7 and 5 months respectively. Both of these piercings will be fine for a few weeks or a few months and then for seemingly no reason they will swell up a bit, get real red and sore, and some times start to leak a bit of puss. Most of the time when this happens I start cleaning it a bit more, or when it gets fairly bad I put Bactine on it for a few days and it goes back to normal. If you are cleaning this new piercing more than twice a day that may be irritating it, so you might want to consider that. I wouldn't worry too much about keloids, especially since you have another cartilage piercing which healed without that complication. It's far more likely to just be an infection than keloids.Best of luck. Source(s): Experience