Iāve already got an NExT under there but I might add a white field detector
Iām getting an apex mega spectrum in my forearm,and Iāll do a unicorn with the horn right over the LED
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My friend getting a fingertip Titan in
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Couldnāt find a good place to post this xG3 tragus removal. Seems either almost no one gets things removed, or if they do no one reports on it. This is just a fun little quirky video. No recommendations
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Is that you? If so, I hope that the Bellās Palsy that you mentioned in the video description gets better soon.
Also, was it a side effect of one of the covid vaccines or something else entirely?
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Haha what? Where did you hear that?
Some people were experiencing Bellās palsy from covid for short periods of time at the beginning of the pandemic, but the mechanism of action for the vaccines is different. It doesnāt produce hostile virus particles that would attack your epithelial cells, just the immunological reaction.
Mine wasnāt covid related. Because of where I live it could have been Lymeās disease, but we eliminated that possibility. That just leaves some kind of herpes inhabiting the nerve cells. Honestly doctors know very little about Bellās Palsy. They know it canāt be treated, and thatās all anyone needs to know because itās not profitable to do anything else.
Itās been 3 months for me, and the neurologist said to expect 6-9 months (if that even means anything). Upside, when it lasts 6 months Iāll finally get that MRI with a fingertip Titan installed that Iāve been after. My left side of my body is fucked anyway from psoriatic arthritis, so I expect this kind of bullshit. Looks like in addition to replacing my left arm and leg with bionics, Iāll also need to develop a face mirroring electrode array to get my expressions back and stave off atrophy.
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Heard about it after a family member ended up in the ER shortly after the third shot. He recovered fully after a few hours but we all though he had suffered from a stroke at first. From my understanding, itās one of the rare side effects but I still have to read the published scientific research about this.
Thankfully, Iāve never had any adverse reactions to vaccines. But I got the covid one a bit late because I was very depressed. Ironically, the nurse asked me if I was afraid of chip implants or somethingā¦ 
I want to replace my entire body with bionicsā¦ I hope that this will be possible Soonā¢.
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Whyād you get it out? Too sensitive? Not useful enough? Or an MRI?
I wanted to replace my xG3 v1 with an xG3 v2 for my tragus monophone experiments. This will have been the 4th magnet in that ear. No pain no gain.
Iām not afraid of an MRI. Iām actually looking forward to my next chance to get one with a fingertip magnet in so I can record it
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smuggles the phone to record and the fingermagnet in mri room
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This has been my dilemma.
I have 2 titans that need to be put in me. I am also arguing with the VA as to if they will MRI me, because of the chips.
They said they would prefer I take them out for the scan, or they want to do a needle guided CT of my spine.
Iām so over waiting, part of me wants to put them in and just hope they donāt fly out.
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I might be wrong here, but wasnāt there a kind of āshieldingā option? Especially with magnets in the fingers, wouldnāt it be possible to somehow āblockā the MRI in that area?
I have obviously no clue about that, but I think I read it somewhereā¦ maybe even here^^
Nopeā¦ not really an option. You can shield against the RF electric field generated by the MRI machineā¦ and thatās typically only done in the walls of the MRI room. I think you might be able to make use of eddy currents induced into metal plating to try to reduce the magnetic field propagation, but that would also affect the MRI field inside the machine and so prob not whatās wantedā¦ plus it would get really really hot doing that.
They have mu metal shields for people who have shrapnel in their body. They preferentially direct the magnetic field through them and away from your body. They either donāt have them or refuse to use them at most places. Rarely would it not be easier to just do a CT scan
Yeah, that was what I read about! I mean, there are lots of people with some sorts of metal inside their bodiesā¦ okay, most of it today is titanium, which should be MRI-safe. But especially shrapnels are usually not made of titanium^^
Itās important to note that most ātitanium implantsā are not actually pure titanium but alloys, and some of those additional elements can have magnetic properties.
The Titan however does use pure elemental titaniumā¦ in the shell anyway. The magnet inside kinda makes it a moot point in the context of this thread 
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Take in your ranks - cyborgs!)) Finally, I installed my NExT.! 
I have a relatively low pain threshold so I didnāt use any pain medication prior to insertion. The procedure for installing the implant turned out to be less painful than I expected.
The installation was carried out by a professional body modifier, in a ātattoo & piercing salonā
After ~2.5 days, the patch began to peel off (on the folds of the skin - between the index finger and thumb), so I replaced it with a new patch. On day 4, I removed all the bandages, and there is now a small healing point at the site of the needle puncture.
There is no swelling of the hand at all. The implant is perfectly readable by a smartphone, and now Iām experimenting with tag records with might and main!
āDangerousthingsā the best! 
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Where do you live? I wanna come and see you to do it when I get another one. That was smooth as hell!
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