"I bet those hurt don't they?" A comment made yesterday about my many piercings; so I thought I'd talk about them (so I can share this post with the person who made the comment) So do they hurt now? Not at all. Never. Ok, a lie. Sometimes if I sleep on my right ear with the upper conch piercings and my ear ends up folded under it can be a bit owwie in the morning for a moment but for the most part I forget I'm wearing almost 50 grammes of metal per ear. Did they hurt when I was having them done? Yes, but in different ways. Some of the more "normal" looking ones hurt the most; and stretching a piercing is a little bit stingy when you first start to push the next size taper in - but if you're stretching and it's hurting a lot you're going too fast. The interior ones hurt the least as there's very few nerves inside the conch, and the only one that grossed me out somewhat was having the tragus piercing done (the little flap at the front) only because you can hear the pop. Which is quite frankly disgusting! The most painful to have done was the frontal helix up at the top front - that was quite sore for 2-3 days and actually gave me a sleepless night. Do you take them out at night? Never. Every single one stays in every night. I actually never take any of them out ever - not in the gym, not at work, not when I'm riding rollercoasters (yes the g forces do pull them down!) Can you change them yourself? A lot of people with body piercings rely on their piercer to change their piercings, but not me. I've always been able to change mine myself. Every last one. The only ones I sometimes struggle with is the horseshoe ball end ones and that's just because my brain has to figure out the thread directions on the screw. Do you change them? Such as to match outfits or moods? Not really. I prefer to just keep the same ones in. Sometimes when I'm going out I'll put an orbital in (it wraps around my earlobe going through the inner conch piercing). Hope that helps!