Mine never affected my speech, and no one even knew i had it unless i showed them.

Yeah, did you get it done?

Mine did affect my speech. I could speak but I sounded like someone with a tongue piercing. I couldn't stand the marblemouth thing and took it out after six days. There was already plaque forming on the bead. Gross. But as far as anyone noticing I had it, no. People at work probably assumed I was sucking a candy or something.

oooh that sounds awesome, curious tho, anyone with a web also have thier tongue pierced?

It is an interesting piercing. Honestly, I think I'm more inclined to get my tongue web completely snipped out than pierced.

Snipped out...intersting, why would you rather have it removed??

Because it seems kind of pointless and it prevents my tongue from reaching its true potential.

ETA: I've had long standing thoughts about things like this from time to time. Like, for instance, I find my right pinkie finger to be next to useless. I hardly ever use it. I've had dreams where it was removed, including everything up into the hand. Resulting not in a stub, which is not appealing, but rather a completely more streamlined hand that doesn't bulge out past the wrist.

Anyway. I don't see a use for the tongue web, other than piercing it. It isn't high on my list of things to do, but its removal would be welcome to me.

I asked my piercer about getting both done too. If you get a barbell for your web, then a regular tongue piercing wouldn't effect it too much. If you get a ring though, it could always get tangled. I figure once it heals I'm gonna get my tongue done. I just got the web for now and I love it. As long as you get a barbell that fits your tongue it should be OK. Except while it's healing and you got the longer one. I dunno, we'll see what happens. Good luck!

Very interesting. I actually read something on BME at some point about twin bros who were going to attempt the pinky finger removal for a more streamline hand. Guess there are more people out there thinking like that than I would've thought.