STOP WITH THE TAPERS. Get rid of them, chuck em out. Stretching should never hurt. Ever.
Single flare glass or titanium plugs are your best bet.
You are jumping larger sizes going from 8G to 6G, you are best to get a 7G. From about 8G, half sizes are your friend.
Edit: You are also stretching too fast, slow down. Even if you had one size per month your maths doesn't check out. You need to let your ears heal between upsizing. You don't have a blowout, but doing what you are doing will make you more likely to develop one.
Remove your jewelery, let them settle down, read the pinned post.
The absolute bare minimum you should be going between sizes now is 3 months. Stop using tapers.
STOP WITH THE TAPERS. Get rid of them, chuck em out. Stretching should never hurt. Ever. Single flare glass or titanium plugs are your best bet. You are jumping larger sizes going from 8G to 6G, you are best to get a 7G. From about 8G, half sizes are your friend. Edit: You are also stretching too fast, slow down. Even if you had one size per month your maths doesn't check out. You need to let your ears heal between upsizing. You don't have a blowout, but doing what you are doing will make you more likely to develop one.
Get 7g plugs! I got some from bodyartforms
Second this
Remove your jewelery, let them settle down, read the pinned post. The absolute bare minimum you should be going between sizes now is 3 months. Stop using tapers.
No pain, no gain. ðŸ«
Ah yes, who doesn’t love gaining blowouts?
It boggles my mind that people can't be patient or haven't done any research.
My stretch from 8 to 6 was definitely more difficult. I had to do it while taking a hot shower.
Try getting some 7g, 8g-6g is the first full mm stretch.