# Stretching my lobes...pierced too low?

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**Created:** [May 22, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretching-my-lobes-pierced-too-low/497354 "2009-05-22T23:46:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretching-my-lobes-pierced-too-low/497354/1 "2009-05-22T23:46:51Z")

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I have decided to stretch my ears. I have thought this over thoroughly (literally over a decade) and have decided I want to go to 7/16".

I started by stretching my piercings (been there since I was a baby, stretched from heavy hoops) to a 10g. After that, I stretched up to an 8g, which is where I am now. I am anxious to get bigger. I am hype.

Now, the problem. The piercer I am consulting is concerned that my original piercings are too low. He doesn’t think I will ever make it to a 7/16". In fact, he is thinking I may not even get to a 0g, which is tiny to me (8mm).

I got lots of advice from him and on line about how to proceed. He says there is a chance I can fatten up my lobes by downsizing and upsizing again a few times. Is that really going to work? And _are_ my lobes pierced to low to stretch? (sending pics to flickr from my phone…it will be a minute before I can link to pics.)

I am hoping to hear some good news. Hoping posters will tell me their piercings are way low, and they were able to stretch.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretching-my-lobes-pierced-too-low/497354/2 "2009-05-23T00:30:15Z")

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Try the [BodyMod forums](http://www.bodymod.org/forum/default.htm). They’ve given me a lot of advice since I got my nose pierced.

(You don’t want to end up with cat-butt)

[BME Encyclopedia](http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Main_Page) is also helpful.

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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretching-my-lobes-pierced-too-low/497354/3 "2009-05-23T00:52:12Z")

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Thanks. I have checked out BME Encyclopedia. I just tried to ask the question on BodyMod forums, but they want me to register, and I don’t feel like it. I probably will if I don’t get the responses I am looking for here, though.

I already have a consultant that I trust alot, (he has done other piercings of mine), but I think what I really want is to hear someone say that they have been able to stretch even though they were told they were pierced too low.