Or other permanent body things.
I very mildly regret getting my upper ear pierced when I was a teen. It caused the collagen to push to the back of my ear, creating a little bump. It has gotten somewhat better over the years.
I almost lost a fingertip a couple of years back when someone I worked with fucked up.
That’s the only one I’m slightly miffed about.
I have enough sensation, and the scarring has improved with time
My tattoos are old and wonky, but they’re a marker of my life. They are with me to remind me of where I am, and where I have been
I’ve removed all the piercings apart from the PA, and that’s not closing up without surgery. I’m actually really fond of it. I’ve had it for a couple of decades now, and I think it’s pretty impressive
Most importantly, my woman likes it!
I regret my snake bites, only because I want a slightly different piercing in the same place instead lol
Having jewellery in your mouth gets annoying when you can’t stop unconsciously messing with it. I’ve swallowed so many of them at this point…
I regret my snake bites
Oddly I was bit by an actual rattlesnake, and I do not regret that. While I almost died from it, it is a unique experience that gave me a different perspective on my life, and nature. The hospital bill, yeah that is a regret.
I’m not a violent person, but I have gone down on a road bike many times and one of the common injuries to skinned up knuckles. I have some deep scars as a result. It would be easy to assume they were the result of violence. My size and build also supports this assumption. I am entirely the opposite type of person.
My hands look awful, but any scars are literally from my crappy skin cracking horribly from 3 years of food service hand washing. Frequent handwashing is brutal if you have bad skin…
Were you a cook? I did 8 years front of house and my hand never got to that point, even with a 2nd job working in a dirty warehouse
Worse, grocery store deli / hot food counter. Frequent switching between ready to eat food and raw ingredients, and shitty gloves that constantly ripped open.
I have 2 significant scars I’m not happy about, but only one is my fault. The first is a big ugly scar from when I had appendicitis as a kid. They told me it would be small and go away, but 40-odd years later it’s still there.
The one that’s my fault is on my right kneecap. I was jumping on my parents’ bed and they had this big sturdy cedar chest at the foot. I lost my balance and came down real hard on my right kneecap. It hurt so bad I passed out briefly from the pain. I couldn’t put any weight on it for an hour and couldn’t walk on it the rest of the day. The scar is small, but it is a reminder of my own stupidity cause it wasn’t like I hadn’t been warned that jumping on the bed was dangerous.
You’re far from the only kid to learn that lesson the hard way. Not that that makes it better but at least you have company
No doubt.
Sure, one scar. We were demolishing a bigass concrete retaining wall and I was chipping out the wrought iron handrail. Couldn’t be arsed with safety glasses and safety squints weren’t doing it, so I was just chipping it out with a 35lb electric jackhammer with my eyes closed most of the time. As I got to the last parts, it was really starting to lean out over me.
Absolute looney toons moment. About five hundred pounds of wrought iron fell over onto my head while my eyes were closed and made a two-inch tear on my scalp. It was floppy enough that it didn’t break my neck, but I had to get staples.
I don’t regret any tattoos.
I regret the piercings.
Got my ears pierced when I was a kid, hated wearing earrings and I still have holes in my ears.
At 18 I got a belly button peircing that was even more annoying, so that’s just another hole now. If you’re getting any part of your body pierced that you have to move, really think about what you have to do for the next two weeks because you’ll be VERY aware of it.
my boyfriend threw his cat at me and left a ~6 inch gas down my inner thigh, it’s pretty recent and it already seems to be shrinking, maybe in a couple years it will disappear entirely
Time for a new boyfriend because this one is either mean to you, abusive to animals, an idiot, or all of the above. You don’t throw pets and you definitely don’t throw pets that land on little beds of razor blades at somebody.
Definitely an idiot lol, right before he tossed the cat he said “she’s like a bowling ball!” Like tossing a bowling ball at someone is any better of an idea
is the cat okay?
Cat is great, she is a strong panther, and the meat of my thigh gave her plenty of braking distance (think of a pirate sliding down a sail with their sabre)
10" chest scar from open heart surgery. Some days I wake up, forget its there, then see it in the bathroom mirror.
“Ooooh… riiiight… that was a whole thing.”
Do you regret getting open heart surgery?
Well, considering the alternative… but it was a hell of an experience and the post operative complications continue 6-7 years later.
I’m mixed.
Be careful about offering up identifiable information that you can’t change on a random lemmy post, especially if you’re in the U.S.
A few scars but nothing significant. I have a shit ton of tattoos and piercings, I have a forked tongue, and I used to have a magnetic implant. Zero regrets.
I have 2 ugly tattoos that I got done on the same day, by the owner of the shop nonetheless. One of them looks like a drawing made by a 6 year old. The meaning behind the tattoos are basically gone, yes, but I don’t regret that at all…. just the poor quality. Even if I got tattooed an alien sharting itself in graphic detail, I’d have zero regrets if it was done well.
I blame myself to be honest, I wasn’t ready for tattoos and had the wrong mindset about it all. But the experience taught me valuable lessons:
Don’t lower your standards. Don’t feel like your appointment seals your fate — if they aren’t getting the design right, cancel and find a better suited artist. It’s permanent and it’s your body. Also, there’s no “saving money” with a tattoo you’ll end up paying to get removed later. A professionally-done tattoo is well worth the money and travel. Find well-known artists in your community, and talk with them before you even consider letting them tattoo you. Online reviews of shops aren’t good for vetting individual artists.
No tattoos, only one piercing - a prince Albert, still pretty new but I don’t see myself regretting it. I miss standing to pee at a regular toilet but can still manage urinals just fine. I might have timed it better, I didn’t tell my wife I was gonna get it done and it turned out she was kind of planning on having sex with me that weekend. She’s excited to try it out in a couple weeks though.
I don’t regret any of my scars, at worse they’re a reminder not to do something stupid, but most of them are just a fun story. I have one on my left eyebrow I got in a mosh pit that I think is pretty cool. One of my first dates with my wife involved her taking me for a quick stop to get my stitches removed.
Crap my curiosity got me, should have not search for it.
I got an ugly scar on my pinky from a bullying incident at school when I was 12. It’s not like this was their intention, but it got out of hand and a door slammed hard on my finger.
I had to get rushed to the hospital, got stitches and a massive bandage for half a year.
The bullies never apologized and it got brushed off as an accident.It’s a reminder of bad times during my teenage years and I still get sad when I look at it.
If that counts, I regret my nipples. I mean, it’s a graft of my own nipples, and I really dislike them. Plus, they hurt.
Phrased that way, the while nipple graft thing is kinda weird. I know a trans guy who opted to forgo them entirely, the first time I saw him shirtless I had to do a double take because you know something’s missing but it doesn’t immediately occur to you what. His plan was to have tattoos done. I’m reasonably happy with my nipple grafts though, lol.
