Does a tongue piercing hurt

Everyone is different. If you have a lower pain threshold, then obviously it will hurt more. For me, the worst part of getting my tongue pierced was having to hold my tongue out while the piercer got the barbell and I drooled down the bib they gave me. It really isn't as painful as it looks. Even after it only feels like when your muscles ache after working out. 90% of people's tongues swell when they get pierced and it can last from 2 days to 2 weeks, 90% of people who swell, it only lasts around the 2-5 day range.

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It's a piercing, it's going to hurt to some extent. However, when it comes to the tongue piercing most people I have talked to say that the most painful part of the piercing was the day after when the swelling sometimes pinched their tongue between the barbells. However, it should be noted that you are shoving a steel spike through your body with any piercing and then you are inserting a steel rod in an open wound... It's probably going to hurt.

for me it didnt hurt at all when i got it done but a few hours later it did, but like the guy above said it only felt like a muscle ache, i took 2 ibuprophen and almost all the pain was gone :)