I could put it in R/L1 but I want an SIID in R/L3 and a NEXT in R/L0 and I do not want to mess with clashes. Knife edges I want for apex.
Right forearm has other plans involving flexes and right forearm I am keeping clear for a full sleeve tattoo.
I exclusively wear t-shirts so I can 100% hit it with my phone. And even a reader if itās not in a tight corner, although it would be hard to manipulate it to the right angle if its a tricky.
But basically I almost did not get one, as the forum ATM and I wanted to see what the app is like/maybe add the oauth to my servers. But I doubt I will enroll it in any locks given all the other options I have for that.
Okay, since nobodyās asking, someoneās gotta do it: why the upper arm? It seems mighty inconvenient to scan something there. Maybe a tad less with a cellphone, but definitely a PITA with a desktop reader. Are you running out of space elsewhere?
Uncoated chips can travel surprisingly far from the original implant site. Even the (coated) xBT I implanted in my torso managed to hike down half an inch before finally anchoring itself where itās at now.
I would not implant anything uncoated without something to bony or muscular to coax it into a specific location. Too much chance to have a floaterā¦
And essentially yeah space. Although there not installed yet I have plans for both hands with the chips on my desk already and the forearms have plans for tattoos or flexes.
Also why would a desktop reader be a pain? I can just pick it up and scan my arm right?
After the first month, without some blunt force trauma even uncoated implants should not move. The collagen network that binds your flesh together creates a matrix around the implant, stabilizing it in all directions. Itās more stable on the arms and legs, slightly less so on the torso.
Yep: the xEM in my right hand started out almost at the front of the index metacarpal, and burrowed its way to the very back, only stopping there because the carpals were in the way. It literally created a little tunnel along the bone, along which is can slide freely. I donāt normally force it out of its usual spot at the base of the metacarpal because itās not a very nice feeling, but I just tried and it still slides just fine all the way to the front of the bone.
The non-DT EM4305 in my left hand is coated. It barely moved after I installed it (I did pay attention not to knock it out of position for a week or two), and now itās firmly anchored there, no matter what I do to it. Same thing with the xBT in my torso - although it did move a lot more: now itās completely impossible to displace.
I donāt like uncoated chips. Coated ones behave much better. They may be harder to remove, but I donāt routinely remove my chips. So what do I careā¦
Yeah, I remember your thread about this. It migrated 5 days after implantation. If youāre gentle with your install location for 2-4 weeks after implantation that will not happen. It may migrate a few millimeters over time like mine did after 4 years, but you wonāt experience migration of a few centimeters unless youāre rough with it early on or thereās some later blunt force trauma.
Also, if youāre rough with it immediately after install then youāre less likely to have it settle later, because the initial installation injury is a signal for your immune system to promote collagen growth.
The thing is, mine shifted without any blunt force or trauma: it wanted to move away from the get-go, and just a bit of cycling pushed it out of the way for good. And just to be clear, my bike is a recumbent, so thereās no heavy grabbing of the handlebar or anything: I wrapped my hand gently around it for the time it took me to commute, and that was it.
Also, I think the āyour body will pin it down eventuallyā thing depends on the person: my body doesnāt seem to do anything whatsoever unless the implant is coated and irritates it into growing extra tissue around it.
Iām going to be quite careful not to bump it. Iām kinda curious I have a connective tissue disorder that may effect things, in my case it seems to usually effect my joints more than my skin but my understanding it may be a mutation in the gene that regulates type I collagen fibrillogenesis (itās not particularly well recearced by the medical community or myself) so should be interesting.
I have a friend who has that. The guy is a human bendy-bus. Amazing the shapes he can contort his joints into. Me, Iām as flexible as a rusty robot. Iām pretty jealous. But then Iām not so jealous of his jointsā instabilityā¦
Definitely most, if not all people with migration issues that persist basically have something else going on. Impact trauma can dislodge an implant but Iām scenarios where it just never seems to settle, some people just have loose fascia and/or their bodies arenāt reacting with enough effort to clamp it down. Usually other healing issues are at play as wellā¦ anemia, hyperglycemia, certain vitamin deficienciesā¦ prenatal vitamins can help most cases, but only if there isnāt something else going on.
Whatever the cause may be, my point was that thereās a chance that anyone who implants an uncoated chip will end up with a floater, especially if they implant it somewhere that doesnāt provide a mechanical way of stopping it, like a bone or a muscular bulge. And from what Leumas95 said, Iād say the likelihood of that happening to him in particular is high.
