I'm curious about it getting infected - as I said in a previous post, I had mine done at 8 and they were infected for a very long time, as a PP said - I could only wear sleepers to stop it being infected and even now - 21 years later, if I wear studs, they still get infected. I have also got a nose piercing which I have had for about 10 years - it got badly infected for the first 3 or 4 years as well. I thought I must just be a person likely to get infections with my piercings but all my piercings were done with a gun (I also have 7 other piercings in my ears also done with a gun but none of them were infected like my lobes and nose). So guns are more likely to cause infection? and playing with the earrings? I never knew that. I don't remember the piercing itself being painful, I remember the weeks following being quite horrendous painwise - that it what turns me off having my baby's ears done the most. I also didn't realise peircings were permanant because if I take mine out for more than a few days, my holes all close over ...

I don't know if there is really a question in there, I am just talking out loud

I'm the same.I have holes but I actually never wear anything in them.It only takes about 10 minuted before they start getting itchy.It happens even with gold and silver. I get a reaction if I wear anything other than gold or silver anywhere else too.
I think that's another part of why I will not pierce DD ears.She has sensitive skin as it is, so would probably react.