Can you get your ear numbed before getting the industrial?

Most professional body piercers don't like numbing agents because they promote bleeding and they swell the tissue to be pierced. This makes laying out the jewellery more difficult and creates more work than it's worth. Don't use any numbing agents without your piercing being aware of it before hand, your piercer needs to know what they are working with, if you use and form of agents on the tissue this can put the piercer at risk. Please be considerate and let your piercer know before you do anything post piercing to the tissue. Most professional body piercers won't pierce anyone who has used topical anesthetics on the area to be pierced.