Ughhh. Help me with my problem I'm having here..
So I'm new to stretching my ears, it's my first time. I've had my ears pierced since I could remember. Right now I'm at an 8g. I've been waiting about 3 weeks since my last stretch. And I've been waiting about 2-3 weeks for every other stretch. So my ears were fine at the first week of stretching to 8g, no itchiness, no swelling, it went right through. Same with the second week. Everything was healing perfectly fine.
So I've been noticing itching for the past few days and didn't bother cause it seemed pretty normal. But this morning I went to check if my ears were healing properly and I saw two red lumps in each ear, hard, flaking and itchy about the size of a pea next to both holes. It isn't behind my ear, and it isn't on the hole, it's right next to it. I didn't have this problem at all for the past few weeks.
What should I do? Is it an infection?