I left my plugs out for a couple of weeks mainly due to laziness. Then wanting to go out on Saturday night, without naked puckered cats-bum earlobes, panicked when I couldn't get one of them in and forced it to fit. Now I have a mega huge infected earlobe more than twice the size of the other one! It looks horrific. My glands are up and the infection has started to spread to my neck. The doc at work have given me a script so all should be well in due time but the lesson was definitely learnt the hard way