I already have my xSIID implant in P0 and I’m planning on getting the flexUG4 next. I was planning on installing it in P4 and I’d prefer to have it in my hand rather than anywhere else like my forearm.
I wanted to get some input from people who either have flex implants in P4 or in other locations that may be over bones to see how they like it or if they wish they chose another location. The only main concern I have would be if I could feel it over the bones and the size of the scar afterward since it’s a good bit bigger than the xSIID.
I have a FlexUG4 in P1 right hand, and Apex Flex in P2 left hand. So far, no problems. The Apex was inserted from between the knuckles, and the FlexUG4 was inserted from the wrist side because I have a lot of veins around the knuckle area on my right hand.
This is a couple weeks after for the Apex (end of March). you can see insertion point, today it basically looks like a mole or something, it’s pretty faint:
After getting the implant in P4 have you been able to notice it at all? For example just clenching your hand to grab something or typing on a keyboard?
How has it been so far just going about your day to day? Are there any points where you can feel it in your hand for example gripping something or typing on a keyboard?
Gripping no, typing no. Only time I notice it’s there or feel it moving around is putting my hands in my jeans pockets, or trying to put on/off tight-ish fitting gloves because that’ll shift all the skin on my hand a little bit.
Noticeable but not uncomfortable.
Doing a spread finger wavey motion with my fingers I can see it and the xG3 in P3 shift but can’t feel it.
Also had another question. What’s the read range like on the FlexUG4? With my xSIID I need to practically be touching my hand to get a read. Another thing is with mine it only reads if I have the reader up to the implant vertically. If it’s horizontally it wont read so I was wondering if the FlexUG4 has that same one direction read.
Your installer should try to go over or under them when using a blunt edged dermal elevator. My Apex Mega in my left hand is under a vein.
I suggest this first but only because I now have 2 similar sized implants in each wrist / arm area and love them there (Apex Mega and flexEM in both arms).
Read range is hard to give an answer to because range depends on both reader characteristics and transponder characteristics working together. The only real answer is - you have to test it with your intended reader. I can say that performance of the flexUG4 vs an x-series is generally better across the breadth of readers out there, but could not give you specifics on range.
Cylindrical shaped x-series implants MUST be presented across the antenna coils of a typical flat plane reader coil design to get a read, so position and orientation are critical when presenting an x-series to a reader. The flat plane flex devices which are closer to a circle or square shape are much less dependent on orientation because they basically match the shape of most reader coils, so positioning on the reader itself becomes more important for these type of flex implants than orientation.
