So, back in August of 2023 I ordered an xG3 - v2, and a Blue xSIID, they get here, and I tell my doctor friend to help me install them. She’s a pro, after all, right?
Fuckup #1: Assuming
The problem is that she’s a pediatrician and has mostly worked with kids and women. I’m a man, which means my hands have a lot less subcutaneous fat than women & children.
Another problem is that most of the experience she had for implants with hormonal birth control. The procedure for these is to use a much longer needle than the x-series have, and put it under the arm, where on average there’s a lot more subcutaneous fat than there are in a male’s hand.
This resulted in me getting both my xG3 at 5 and xSIID at 0 implanted way too deep, into muscle. I could not use my hand to wipe my ass for the better part of a week. Here’s the install video of the xSIID, the xG3 followed a few minutes later.
The mistake here was twofold, both entirely my fault. The first was assuming that a medical professional could perform an entirely new procedure with only verbal instruction, and the second was not having an install video or picture description on hand. To be fair, I remember searching a fair bit on the forums and couldn’t find one, even though I was sure I’d seen many before this.
What I could have done better: Send the professional docs, videos, etc. Ask them more details about how they plan to perform the procedure, and finally, not convince them it’s a good idea to do it after a 36 hour shift 
Fuckup #2: Goig to an underqualified professional to fix the fuckup.
So, a few months go by, and both implants work, but the magnet barely can hold a couple screws because of the inverse square law, it’s too deep. The xSIID’s light is barely visible, and it’s tough to read.
So, I went to a body modder on Febuary 22nd 2024 to se if he could reposition the xg3 a little closer to the surface of the skin. I was able to find some pics and like 25 minutes of aimless digging on his part, here’s a small clip, as you can see, no face mask. This was done in a hair salon of all places, with hairdriers going on and 5-8 other people around, for the life of me I can’t figure out why I went ahead with this:
He dug around, tugged, pulled and yanked the magnet around forcibly with forceps for the better part of a 90 minutes, and left me scarred and swollen and with the biomagnet in nearly the same place as before, except now it sometimes moved around inside of me after healing, not a fun feeling.
2-3 months later, I receive a direct impact on the place of the magnet, there’s pretty bad swelling the next day, so I assume the worst, get x-rays on July 9th, and get a surgeon’s appointment. It’s still surprising how deep the xg3 is in me and it still worked:
Here’s a better look at the xSIID, a later ultrasound confirms it’s 6mm deep:
It turns out the glass probably cracked or shattered from the unqualified bodymodder’s rough handling, so on July 13th 2024 the surgeons pull it out in pieces, I still have small glass pieces in my hand:
And finally, some really shitty photos of the ultrasound of the glass bits still stuck in my hand, they’re the white horizontal lines where the green arrow points, kinda hard to see (it was a boring new year’s eve, lol):
I was revisiting this since I was missing the xg3 and considering maybe getting another one. I don’t think this falls under warranty, lol. But after remembering how painful and kinda pointless it all was, I’m having second thoughts.
I hope that this write-up helps others in the forums and the expense & pain wasn’t a total waste. Good night y’all.
