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Gary Scheiner says

Only major risk is infection. Make sure her blood sugar is well controlled before doing something like this, and watch the skin around the piercing for at least the first couple of weeks. Also, the trauma of the piercing could send her blood sugars temporarily high due to an adrenaline surge.

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