re: Wife allergic to all earrings, unless they are gold

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I'm allergic to them all even if they are gold, as far as I recall. I let them close up years ago.

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same. Real gold balls were my first earrings and it was a major ordeal- red and itchy. I was in elementary school. I remember after they healed trying gold teddy bears. Same result.

It’s possible

I have seen people on the watch forums talk about allergies to certain metals / materials in alloys

I bet she loves wearing a pearl necklace though

I must be allergic too because my girlfriend's vajewelry gave me cold sores.

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I have seen people on the watch forums talk about allergies to certain metals / materials in alloys

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Primarily that is nickel and to a lesser degree cobalt. The watches that usually get people are Rolexes. The newer ones (post 1985) use 904L which is much higher in nickel than the typical 316L which has about half the nickel compared to 904L.

Useless watch trivia: Omega was the first company to use 904L steel in their 1972 Ploprof but abandoned it when they stopped making the 1st gen Ploprof.

Not sure if this was mentioned yet, but I’ve found titanium doesn’t irritate my ears like everything else does. You can replace the hooks of dangly earrings with titanium ones from Amazon. Or look for post earrings made from that

Get her some implant grade titanium ones with a moissanite stone, they are cheap, pass a diamond tester, and it’s physically impossible to be allergic to IGT.

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Even sterling silver is not pure and has some nickel alloy in it.

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Sterling silver (0.925% silver) is usually blended with copper, not nickel.

<——Been dicking around with coins and precious metals since the ‘70s.

Yes its real. My mom has it.

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Is this a real thing? Or is she just gaslighting me into believing I have to buy gold earrings?

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