Daith Piercing

Last year it was everywhere you looked on Facebook and Pinterest.  Getting your daith pierced is supposed to cure migraines. In an earlier post I said I suffered from severe headaches from Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) but I also suffer from migraines. 

Over the years I have pierced my ear lobe a few times.  I had my first holes put in at age 13.  At some point I put in a second hole and then a third hole.  The third hole has closed now.  I also have the cartilage pierced in my upper left ear.  At one point I even pierced my nostril.  Twice. 

After months of researching and a few people I know getting it done I decide I want to get it done.  I figure it can’t hurt.  I know someone who is an amazing piercing and does holistic piercings so I contact him.  While he hadn’t exactly done a daith for migraines he is willing to do so.  He is running a piercing special, so I schedule my appointment.

I call one of my best girl friends and we make a day of it.  The tattoo-piercing shop is about an hour from my house.  We get to Washburn Tattoo in St. Johnsbury, VT commonly known as St. Jay and settle in for the wait because he was running a rocking special.  It was my turn and the smiling face of Thomas Blackfeather greeted me.  He gave me the biggest hug.  It was awesome because I wasn’t sure he remembered me from a few years ago.  We chatted a bit, caught up on each other’s lives, as he got prepared, he handed me some crystals to meditate with as he did the piercing.

He popped the needle through the top of the daith and it didn’t really hurt, but as he pushed his way through the bottom did hurt.  It is right in your ear and you can ear your skin pop and break.  This is what it looked like freshly pierced.

I had a raging migraine as I was getting pierced.  A level 7, about an hour later I would say it was a level 4, and a few hours later it was barely there.  I got this piercing done on November 14, 2015, in the last 5 months I have gone from having daily headaches and 3+ migraines a week to having had maybe 1 migraine a month, and just a handful of headaches.  I definitely recommend this. 

I have another tattooist/piercer friend and he says it is just a placebo affect.  He says this to me whenever he changes my piercing for me.  The last time I told him to shut up and take my $10, $5 for my new earring and $5 for your time.  Let’s just say I won’t be back. 

He is closer, and it was much easier to go to him whenever I lost the ball off the bottom of the earring (which I did twice).  But the last time I had him put in a hoop and I LOVE THE HOOP.  He said it would be harder to keep the hoop in, but so far I have had no problem keeping the ball in the hoop.  When I change it out I will go see someone else.

If you are on the fence about this piercing, I recommend it.  If it doesn’t work for you, then you can always take it out.  Or keep it and have a cool piercing.