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I recently had that little friend(I named him Frank) removed from my right breast. It's a benign tumor or known as a Fibroadenoma. Now what does this have to do with body mods?

When I was considering the surgery to get it removed, I spoke with the surgeon at a consultation. During said consultation, I brought up my piercings. I told her that it would be a weighing factor in getting it removed(it wasn't urgent) because if I had to take out all of my facial piercings for surgery, I'd have to get my dermal anchors cut out and I wanted to avoid that if possible. I told her I had surgery to remove my tonsils about a year back and they made me remove all of my body jewelry(or replace it with acrylic) due to "possibilities of getting shocked" because they were using electocautery in the procedure. I told her that it was a huge headache and resulted in me spending a lot of money on jewelry that I would never wear again.

She was really cool about it, surprisingly. We ended up doing the procedure under local anesthetic so that she could make her own rules about it and wouldn't have to succumb to the rules of the hospital and/or anesthesiologist. She also prescribed me lots of Valium to take before-hand because of how scared I am of needles(yeah yeah ha ha). She didn't even make me remove the barbell in my n****e on that side. She just worked around it and covered it up during the procedure.

Needless to say, I was extremely grateful for how well she worked with me with this. I notice that a lot of doctors see piercings and a) blame every illness you have on them or b) want them outoutout before they touch you. She went above and beyond and it made me very happy to have her work on me.

My question to you all is:

What are your experiences with doctors/hospitals and your jewelry? Good? Bad?

I was eating!
And pizza at that...

I live in the middle of nowhere, and my doctor is very old fashioned, and tries to blame any ailment I have on my piercings. ANY problem I have is somehow related to piercings. Anyway, apparently he's died. And they haven't replaced him yet. I haven't had to go for a while anyway. But the only other doctor is like Hitler. She scares the crap out of me..

I went for a MRI, and was allowed to keep them in as long as they were titanium. I took them out though, just in case. And I've had a few operations, and was allowed to keep all of them in apart from oral ones. But I spose that is understandable, with mouth tubes and whatsit. They were only half an hour anyway.

Hospital seems fine for the most case. Just all the local backwards GPs I struggle with.

D: sorry! haha

Oh and turns out it wasn't a fibroadenoma. It was a benign tumor called a Phyllodes Tumor. Hrm. Could have kept increasing in size until they would have had to lop my whole boob off o_o Glad I didn't listen to them when they said it was no big deal.

I've recently been going for quite a lot of xrays for various things, and I explained to the radiologists that I can't remove my nose ring, and they were fine with it, though I still had to take out everything else. It's cute seeing a white L shape where my right nostril should be. :B

Didn't have to remove anything for my leg xrays. Pwnage.

Aside from seeing my gynecologist every year {and she never said anything about my piercings or about my n****e piercings when I had them}, I've only had one other experience with a doctor and body piercings that would have been affected by a procedure.
It was a few years ago when I developed a very high temperature from a fever. I ended up having a dangerously high fever at 106.7 degrees F.
My right breast had swollen slightly due to what was later discovered to be Mastitis, which is a skin infection, most common in pregnant or nursing women. Well, I wasn't pregnant or nursing - I don't even have kids, period. I think what happened is my boyfriend was just a little too rough with my n****e piercings one day, and one of them ended up tearing some tissue behind my n****e, and badda bing badda boom~

Anyway, long story short, I needed to get a chest x-ray, and the doctor requested I remove my n****e jewelry {I already removed the one from my right breast because of the swelling}. He was really nice about it left the room while I did it and told me that if I wanted to put it back in afterward, he'd leave again so I could. Ha. I left them out while I was sick and in the hospital, and ended up forgetting to put them back in. Needless to say, they were only 6 months old, and they closed up. =/