I’ve never stretched my ears before and this hurts so bad. I bought 10g because it looked small enough to fit into my ear nicely, and was the size I was looking for. Last night I saw the chart for gauge sizes and I skipped 4. My right earlobe is stretched fine, but my left taper is stopping halfway through the hole. I push it all the way in (hurts SO bad) and it gets stuck when I try to take it out. Sea salt soak is not helping with the pain or healing, but I did just start it today. It’s been about 2 days since I first stretched. Tried witch hazel on my lobes too and it made the pain worse. Desperately need help with all of this!!!! ALSO: I am using stainless steel tapers but my plugs are acrylic, do I keep my tapers in or switch? I heard acrylic is 1000x bad for new stretchers.