Scab peeled and magnet moved to my cut.
I recently did my implant and I think I made my pocket too short. A couple days after the implant my scab got caught on the couch and peeled off. After looking at it my magnet moved out of the pocket and is sitting right under my cut.
http://m.imgur.com/e2uwaTB
That was yesterday and I put a bandaid on it. So far the skin is starting to grow over the magnet and I haven't noticed any issues. I'm wondering if it's going to reject at all, or if it should be fine if I don't play with it for a couple days and just keep replacing the bandaid. If need be I can go buy another scalpel and re implant a new magnet.
http://m.imgur.com/e2uwaTB
That was yesterday and I put a bandaid on it. So far the skin is starting to grow over the magnet and I haven't noticed any issues. I'm wondering if it's going to reject at all, or if it should be fine if I don't play with it for a couple days and just keep replacing the bandaid. If need be I can go buy another scalpel and re implant a new magnet.
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That's what it looks like now. The bandaid got wet and that's why it looks a little weird. I'll be replacing it soon.
https://imgur.com/V0Iy49E
(I'm not a medical professional or bodymod guy)
When doing an implant like a magnet, you really really want it to heal by primary intention. Basically, a very clean nice wound edge knits together rapidly and heals with very little scarring.
Your wound doesn't have nice edges. The white areas are non-vascularized which means its dead. It will inevitably be shed. Your wound is healing by secondary intention where the underlying tissue is granulating. It's possible, although not optimal to have an implant heal up in this way. Yours will not though, because all of the healthy tissue is deep to the magnet. It will not wrap around but rather just keep growing beneath and pushing the magnet outwards.
I'd pull it out if it were me. If your going to try salvaging it for a few more days, stop with the alcohol and polysporin. Instead of a bandaid, apply a little gauze. Your skin is staying too wet. It's better to cleanse it periodically with sterile saline which will assist it to heal rather than killing the granulation tissue.
I didn't really take it as condescending seeing as I have no clue what I'm doing and you do :P. I used super glue to hold it together, which I definitely wouldn't do again. It tends to peel off and take the scab with it.
I'd love to go re-implant one now, but my girlfriend has my vehicle and will for a couple more hours.
http://i.imgur.com/AlS8beA.jpg is how my finger looks now.. What does everyone think about placement here? I'd like to place it on the same finger still, but I don't want to have to let it heal. I'm probably going to do it on the O I marked out, but I want to know what others think of that placement.