Can anyone help me? I have no idea what’s going on with my ear. Both my ears are stretched to a 0g. I haven't stretched them in about three months, so there was no new agitation, and I haven’t worn anything in my ears that I haven’t worn before (no new possibly irritating material). The other day I woke up and my right ear was extremely angry, red, swollen, sore, everything, on the one side. I know you’re going to cringe but when there’s a bump, who doesn’t at least try applying pressure to see if it just needs to be.. um... popped? A little bit of that clear, runny yellowish stuff came out, and a lot of blood--so much so that I think it may have built up there and needed to be let out. Yes, I know it probably wasn’t the best thing to do. But it’s definitely not a pimple. Anyway, I since have taken the jewelry out of my ear and bought some gentle cleaning stuff for wounds. I’ve been cleaning my ear 2-3 times a day, and at times took ibuprofen to help the swelling. It’s been about 5 days. The swelling around the bump has gone down and it’s not red. I had to go down a size. It doesn’t hurt unless I touch it (which I’m only doing when I have to), and the bump is still there. The bump isn’t on my earlobe--you can’t see it. It’s in my earlobe, if that makes sense. So it’s no on the front or back of my earlobe but like right in the middle of the flesh.