Finally one of the crew and with superglue too!
Ok so as the title says im finally one with the magnets as it were. The procedure went smoothly until the end where I made the decision to switch form sutures to super glue as my wound closure method. Nothing wrong with that far as i can tell and it worked really well. covered everything in triple antibac and wrapped it up in gauze. I found that rinsing wounds and piercings with sterile contact solution works very well as it squirts nicely, is sterile and contains some antibac as well. no bleeding after closure and i've changed the gauze once just to clean it up and reapplied triple antibac. taking Tylenol for inflammation and pain management as i didn't have ibuprofen on hand. Honestly, the procedure is much easier to do than i initially anticipated. no different than working in my dissection labs. I'll keep you updated on progress to see if superglue is viable.
Edit: used 2 m31s 1 in my ring and pointer finger respectively on my left hand
edit2: forgot to mention, magnet was sterilized with the solution that it came with but was diluted slightly with iso to make sure it was well covered. everything was done in a special bioconatinment box I have with arm holes so no airflow.
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Quick comment - Acetaminophen doesn't have antiinflammatory properties as far as I know. Ibuprofen is better. ASA works too although it has an anti-platelet aggragation effect. After a few days, ice water is great. Any time you have redness or swelling ice it down.
Be super super cautious with the super glue. Thin is better and don't try to peel off old layers. You'll take the
healing tissue right off. If possible I'd also keep a steristrip or at least a bandaid over it to relieve some of the tension on the incision. Yeah, I think contact lens solution is a great idea actually. I'll double check the ingredient but even if there is something nasty, the concentration is low enough to... well to put it in your eye.
Congrats and you're right... once you commit and cut it's not really difficult.
As to feeling it, yeah, you certainly can feel them when you press on the area, but you get used to it pretty quickly. It actually amuses me now more than anything else.
As to doing it without lido, yes, well, it hurts alot. Needle implantation, at least in my case, hurt even more. I genuinely had nightmares about it for the first week after I did the first one. I did them about two weeks apart each and the day prior to and day of each implantation after the first, I had a fair bit of anxiety leading up to it that became nauseousness in the moments before I did each. Not for the faint of heart, to be sure. Fortunately, there's almost no pain at all once you finish. Maybe that's because compared to what you've just gone through, it is so insignificant that it just doesn't register, but at any rate, it is a blessing.
so ibuprofen is the greatest. so long as it's in my system all is good in the world. So subsequently mornings are less good. Both cuts have almost completely sealed but a day or two ago I woke up to a single drop of blood in the bandaid on my ring finger. since then whenever i take the bandaids off after a few hours to air and change them, there's a tiny bit of blood, although diminshingly so and now it's mostly just plasma. the drop size is now almost non existent so that's good. also after the first drop the magnet seems to have descended a little lower into my finger. there's not pain really, although i still can't type properly as afraid of irritating them. both are usually itchy which should mean they are healing. i figure the cuts will be totally closed in another day or two tops and then i'll give it an extra week before i start really using the hand again fully.
It looks good to me, and I have overseen the healing of at least 10 of these things now. That last picture looks fine. Obviously monitor it, but I wouldn't worry. I had a friend that went slightly crazy over this and ended up imagining up symptoms and driving the mod artists nuts with constant phone calls etc. in the end he removed his magnet for no real reason other than he got psyched out. And of course I completely get that, when I had circadia in my arm I had daily panic attacks for the first month.
As a quick aside/response to @TimmyCNinja, I've personally found the field from a microwave at my job to feel somehow gross. Hard to describe, but it's the one field I've found I don't like. It feels yucky. Even though I don't like it, I still feel it whenever I get the chance ;)