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Okay, after college I was backpacking through Europe and got the crazy idea in my head to go get pierced. To answer your questions:
1. Yes it hurt... hurt like heck. They didn't do anything to numb me up at all. Compound that with the fact that I'm terrified of needles and hyperventilate when they have to draw my blood and it was a very bad scene.
2. It swells pretty bad. It was a few hours before I could close my mouth properly and not feel like a drooling idiot. Two days and my tongue didn't feel like it was taking up my whole mouth anymore. One week and I could actually eat a sandwich.
3. As for dangerous, I have a cousin who's had his tongue pierced for years. At this point he has a few chipped teeth to show for it. Personally I have a tiny white bump under my tongue that won't go away but mine was only in for six months.
Long story short, I took the thing out shortly after I got home. The reasons are I have such a weak stomach that having that thing in my mouth actually made me feel squeamish after a while. Also, I had to crash with my parents when I first got home and my mother was beyond freaked out. She kept going off about how it was the tackiest, trashiest, lowest class thing... Don't know you what people will think of you with that thing in your mouth... Blah, blah, blah. In the end I decided it just wasn't me. Plus, being a recent college graduate I was going to have to get a "real" job and didn't really want to walk into a job interview wearing that.
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