In light of the recent rejections of m31 magnets, for the sake of data collection and organization, could those who have had an M31 reject make note of the event on here, along with a short to medium length summary of the circumstances surrounding the failure?
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FWIW, I haven't gotten around to implanting my two magnets yet, and at this point I'm holding off based on what seems to be an unusually high rejection rate (which may or may not have anything to do with the implants themselves).
Re-implanted M31 at same site on 18/03/15. I cut deeper, placed two stitches and applied spray skin (for moisture/germ protection). Wound heeled. On days were I spend a lot of time picking parts I place a piece of plaster over the magnet site to provide outward pressure and support.
I am also wondering if taking anti-biotics has had a part in rejection; as I was on anti-biotics when first implant rejected and with second implant I was anti-biotics and magnet started to pronounce from the deep.
It appeared to have had part of the coating worn off on one edge. I believe that is what caused the rejection.
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There was a small "pocket" of yellow puss around the magnet, but most of the swelling in the finger was just normal blood. The puss pocket seemed to have an extra thick layer of skin around it and was very hard to cut without just pushing it aside.
Everything was cleaned to the point I felt I was at a doctors office. He iced my finger with a glove on, until it was numb. Ripped the glove off, cleaned it again, pierced it with a needle, checked it with a depth gauge. He didn't go far enough. He went over his piercing and rechecked the depth again. ( don't know how far he went. Would say about 10mm at a 45ish degree angle ) Then he pushed the magnet in, and used a bigger magnet to help get the m31 in has far as possible. Cleaned my figure again, and bandage it.
I work has a commercial and industrial eletro-mechanic tech. With in a week I was able to feel; solenoids, transformers, my can opener at home and other coils too. But never a; laptop fan, microware or powerlines. With in a month after the installation my skin became thin and could see a pool of blood in my figure tip, and could feel the magnet floating in it. Or more precisely I could feel the magnet hit the walls of skin in my figure tip. and could even see the magnet through the transparent skin, when I held it above my head.
At the six weeks point the pool went away and I couldn't feel anything magnetic. But I could move the magnet with pressure. I would push it down a couple times a day. I woke up at the two month mark and the m31 was poking out, waited a day trying to massage it back down, without any luck. The next day I went a head and removed it. It never bleed but puss did come out. I did have a huge hole in my figure about 12mm deep and 4mm at the widest. The m31 looks fine under a 25x magnifier.
I do plan on getting it redone with a different m31 just to be on the safe side. I do have a tiny knot in my skin now but it looks fine, Is it a bad idea to get it in the same area??? And if not how long should I wait for it to heal? Probably going to get it in the same figure but opposing side but would like to get it in the same side.
Was healing nicely for about 2 weeks, then I bumped the area on a knife while opening my dishwasher, a few hours later the wound reopened but I kept dressing it (always using chlorhexidine + phenol cream and wrapping with a plaster and rinsing with sterile saline and iso alcohol before changing).
It looked quite red for a few days and some of the skin came off but I kept the pressure on with the dressings in the hope it'd heal up but sadly it was pushed to the surface (actually poking up out of the wound) and I decided it was best to remove it.
By taking care with the antiseptics I never had any signs of infection so i'm confident it wasn't a coating failure and have stored it in a bottle of iso alcohol to reimplant after healing.
It's always had a small bulge, since my skin's a little thin. There are some days it'll be sore, but that's few and far between. Once a month maybe?
No direct trauma, though I do things like handbalancing and cyr wheel. So there is some physical activity going on around it.
No heat, no redness, no visible swelling.
I noticed yesterday however that the skin above has started to peel. Which seems to happen to every magnet that eventually pops out.
I'll keep monitoring this. Silver lining? Good chance to maybe catch a majority of the rejection process in data and images.
Should anyone have a spare that they'd be willing to sell get in touch.
Eep! No spare here :( Had one, but it too was lost to the void mid transit somewhere.