I’m gonna pull this out myself!

[LordSethos2000]

Let’s take this as theoretical. Imagine a world of crazy and this dude exists therein.
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I am beyond disappointed with my implant.

So. xSiid in blue in L0 is lost.
I can’t feel It physically, can’t see the light but can scan it reasonably well with an acs reader.
So I have a general idea where it might be.

In canada, we can’t just walk into an X-ray place, slap a fiddy on the counter and ask for a picture. I’d need to go to the doctor and get a referral and the X-rays would go back to him for review.

I’ve tried a big ass magnet, manual massage, my wife’s …hitachi… massager… and whipping my arm in a whip like motion to get it to come out of hiding - nada.

So, against all your best judgements, how would one, who is gonna do it, regardless of consequence- do it?
Scalpel and a digger?
4g needle and luck?
Exploratory camera and tweezers?
Vacuum and Hoover it out of a cut?

Discuss.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@LordSethos2000

Discuss.

X-series tag removal

A properly installed x-series tag rests in the fascia, which is the connective tissue between the dermis and muscle. Removal is a fairly simple process that any general practice doctor should be able to perform in their office. There are a few ways to go about removing a tag. Cutting it out with a scalpel, removing it with a large gauge needle, and using saline injection to eject it. First we will cover scalpel based removal since this is the procedure that most medical doctors will be comforta…

How’s that for a discussion?

[Zwack]

@LordSethos2000

I am beyond disappointed with my implant.

Can I ask why? No judgement one way or another, I am just curious what your expectations were that haven’t been met.

[LordSethos2000]

Been through that all. That’s what, theoretically, has given me the … theoretical… confidence that it is in fact possible… in theory.

[Pilgrimsmaster]

So to drag out the discussion,

@LordSethos2000

xSiid in blue in L0 is lost.
I can’t feel It physically, can’t see the light but can scan it reasonably well with an acs reader.

Sorry to hear that, AT least it is still reading; to me it sounds a little deep.
My guess is it may have taken a nosedive and the LED is inward-facing.
Can you read it with your phone?

I am hoping that it is still functioning as intended. i.e. Blinky still blinking
If so and you are careful when you extract it ( No tools ) put it in some ChloroHex, test it and reinstall.

Just my thoughts and how I would do it

[LordSethos2000]

@Zwack

Can I ask why? No judgement one way or another

Starters- this was a self install, they all were.I have already dug out one implant that was visible but in a danger zone.

The readability of the placement is poor for me. I’m lucky if I can get my phone to find it at all. Defeats the purpose of being able to use it for anything meaningful.

The directional led is a PITA. I can rotate it with a magnet and, when I’m complete darkness, can sometimes see a faint twinkle of blue. If I’m lucky. What’s the point of that? Can’t freak the mundanes if I have to do so much to maybe hope to get something to happen.

[Zwack]

Thanks for taking the time to reply to me. As I said I am just curious.

[LordSethos2000]

@Pilgrimsmaster

My guess is it may have taken a nosedive and the LED is inward-facing.
Can you read it with your phone?

I can rarely read it on my phone. As for the light, I noted the info in my other comment.

When using the magnet I can slightly feel it wiggle, helps to pinpoint it for surgery.

[darthdomo]

@LordSethos2000

The directional led is a PITA. I can rotate it with a magnet and, when I’m complete darkness, can sometimes see a faint twinkle of blue. If I’m lucky.

Yeah, definitely too deep. I’ve never really noticed the directionality of the LED on mine. The brightness is a tiny different depending on the occasion, but it’s always been fairly bright (can always see it even in a fairly bright room). Mine is blue as well.

Hopefully if you end up removing it, you can have it sterilized and put back in more shallow.

[LordSethos2000]

@darthdomo

Hopefully if you end up removing it, you can have it sterilized and put back in more shallow.

id be fine if it found a better home, but dang thing wont budge.

[Eriequiet]

The fact you can’t find it with a magnet is weird

[Daiilight]

Not discuss us much as just relate.

I got installed my xSIID in the top of my wrist…and it sank below my tendons. It has a very small range and can’t see the light. Not even able to take that baby out without forking out big time for it

[LordSethos2000]

@Eriequiet

The fact you can’t find it with a magnet is weird

can find it, can’t move it from it’s hole. can wiggle it.
i’m using this bugger too.

[LordSethos2000]

[LordSethos2000]

@Daiilight

I got installed my xSIID in the top of my wrist…and it sank below my tendons.

wow that SUCKS! geez. im sorry!

[Pilgrimsmaster]

I just thought I would put this here, as additional information to explain what may be going on.

@amal

The xSIID uses a carrier board that slides into the tube in front of the antenna rod. The chip and LED are situated such that it “shoots out the side” of the glass tube…

The xLED is similar, but without a carrier PCB… the antenna wires are connected directly to the SMT pads of the LED and the LED can be positioned somewhat randomly inside… usually pointing out the side like the xSIID, but sometimes at a 45 degree angle and sometimes very closer to “shooting” out the domed cap of the glass.