Alright, well I'm pretty much screwed. I have 1-1/8th lobes and I have one thinning lobe. It was pierced I guess a tad-off center and now that I've emailed a few places its illegal?? I live in Cal, Sacramento and cant find anywhere. Any advice on thickening my lobe?[:'(] grr. ill post pics later tonight.

 Downsize... drastically...

 I'm confused, you want to scapel an already thinning lobe? Are you trying to re-direct your lobes? I'm from California, and I had my lobes scapeled, at a reptuable APP shop, so, I'm suprised its "illegal"

As far as thickening your lobes, I'd say take out your jewelry, massage your lobes a few times a day, and wait for them to close a bit, after they've started to thicken again you can start stretching back up again. 

Did yu stretch properly, do you have any build up of scar tissue? Any history of blow outs?

 yep, downsize.

a quick google turned up this dude: http://iam.bmezine.com/?Dave+Gillstrap no idea about how qualified he is, but it looks like he's working out of CA... so... yea... there's another person to email.

 Scalpelling won't do anything to thicken your lobe, it will only reposition it. Scalpelled lobes are often very stretchy afterwards, and they will continue to stretch in the direction of least resistance, ie, the thin spot. You need to do a lot of downsizing and restretching to thicken that spot before you consider scalpelling. You may just have to go back to 1" and be happy with that. It 's hard to tell without pictures.

My bad I should've explained more, well I want to get my lobe scalpelled to redirect the hole before one side thins out, but seeing how I cant find anywhere that does it, and I'll research more, I was wondering what would thicken up my lobe. I wear Stone plugs so that problly doesnt help. But I'm ordering some wood plugs right now, so they're lighter and I have rubbing my lobes, and keeping them out for long amounts of time.

 Just leave them naked for a while and let them shrink to thicken up. lighter plugs won't do anything to make them thicker.

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I cant find this dave dudes email. poop.

SactoRyan:

I cant find this dave dudes email. poop.

 

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=6514012

 can you post a photo of your lobes with jewelry in? i know my ears are growers and not showr's but i am amazed you are over 1" cause those holes look tiny. 

and bi- it probably is illegal, it is in most states along with dermal punching, that doesn't mean shops don't do it though. everyone just trys to cover there ass, and i am sure they are going to give you a different answer in person than over the phone or if they know you well. 

 Am I the only one thats going to mention that it looks like you have serious catbutt and rather than slicing in to your lobes, downsizing will easily fix the problem? 

I was scalpelled, but due to bad placement. It's not a cure all, my lobes are still a bit uneven, but I am at my goal size and healthy so I see no need to cut them any more. I'm pretty sure it is illegal in my area, my piercer wrote it off as "lobal expansion", but he did an excellent job. Many shops do it despite it being illegal (which I find silly, my piercer was more than qualified to be weilding a scalpel). 

my lobes!