≡ Body Modification - magnetic implants
As body modification gets more and more extreme, new things are used to push the envelope. At a first glance this looks pretty cool, I mean hey, you’ll never have a 
problem hanging on to tiny metal objects like paper clips, pins, tiny eyeglass screws, etc.
Magnetic Implants are sold as being the sixth sense allowing the person to FEEL magnetic fields and in some cases even pick up small metal objects
So what are they? They are small magnet implanted under your skin with the purpose to enhance your senses as if it was the acquisition of the so famous sixth sense, how it happens, by moving in response to an electromagnetic field and transferring this as sensation to the surrounding nerves.
These magnets give him the ability to directly sense magnetic fields and the presence of ferrite materials. e.g. he can feel the 60Hz pulsing of the inductive security sensors that are at the doors of most shops and libraries. He can feel the electric motors in common things like speakers and electric can openers. And he can directly explore magnets fields in ways us mere humans can only observe via iron filings and their ilk.
“The experience of my implant is not nearly as rich as my visual or auditory sensation, but nevertheless after a week it has dramatically changed the way I think about my daily sensory experience. A small magnet embedded in a finger may seem like a trivial exercise. I find it difficult to explain the significance, somewhat akin to trying to explain to a blind person what it is to see. The problem isn’t defining the technical characteristics of the visual system, but one of trying to convey what conscious perception of certain wave frequencies does to the way a person conceptualizes the world.”
We can divide the magnetic implants into 4 types:
Sensory: The one that supposed to give you the sixth sense
Sexual: Where the magnets are placed inside the most sensitive area or the genitalia of a couple, male and female have to get the implant, it supposed to enhance the feeling of the body parts while in movement against each other, they can also be placed in the lips.
Symbolic: is implanted but a couple to create a magnetic bond as the two people hold hands, as there are not real proves that a couple can really exchange energy thru this technique, we can take it as more discrete kind of wedding rings.
symbolic magnetic implant photos of the procedure to a couple
Functional: Probably not a very comfortable matter, but if you get larger magnets you would be able to pick up things such as screws and some other items, with the magnets commonly used you can’t pick up more than a paper clips, the up side of having such small magnets is that they wont affect your credit cards, hard drives, monitors, and so on.
The implant is inserted in a small sergical procedure where a small incision in the tip of the finger made opening a pocket that the magnet goes in. The implanted magnets are very small, maybe the size of a grain of rice.
It is reported that the first few days the sensation is not very pleasant but after a week
and the stitches taken off the pain goes away and in the period between 1 to 4 weeks you can start to enjoy the magnetic field. The feeling is supposed to be quite interesting.
The procedure is new and considered a generally toxic irritant and moderately poisonous with documented adverse effects. In order to keep the magnet from coming in contact with the skin, it has to be coated with a sheath of biocompatible silicone, there is always the risk of “peeled” silicone off of the magnet, if it happens the compromised magnet should be replaced.
But to every procedure there are pros and cons, and the cons here seem to greatly outweigh the pros
The risks of the implants
*Tissue Resorption: erosion of the tissue by rubbing or pressure applied against the body. Implant can bury itself into the muscles wearing down the body’s natural defences
*Implant Rejection: Is when the implants put enough pressure on the skin above them, that it actually manage to do enough damage to surrounding tissue that the skin above the implant dies and the implant becomes exposed.
*Pressure on Nerve and Muscle: When an implant is placed on top of muscle, nerves, or blood vessels, it has the potential to interfere with their functioning.
*There are also many other possible risks that can be associated with implants such as eloids, Implant surface contamination, Implant Biocompatibility, Implant Finishing, Lidocaine Toxicity, Anaesthetic allergy, Sub dermal Shifting, Mod before Client, Needle allergy, Adrenalin Excitement, Impact damage, Hypertrophy scarring, Abscess, Boils, Cancer, Blood loss, Shock, Bloodborne Pathogens
The following is taken from BMEZINE, a writer had this magnetic body modification performed and documented the experience both during the initial implant and later when he had them taken out due to failure and pain.
The magnet starts as a small gold-coated neodymium (rare earth) magnet encased in a thin bubble of silicone. These magnets are tiny (about a third the size of a grain of rice), so the coating is extremely fragile in parts. It doesn’t take much for it to become compromised, and with only a tiny gap (as seen in the middle picture), the body starts to break down the magnet, extracting the substances it can use and trying to encapsulate those that are toxic. Not long after (within weeks if not less), the magnet is almost completely broken down and becomes a loose powder of toxic elements surrounded by bits of silicone. At this point it has of course also lost its magnetism so it is no longer functional either.
Because the effects of neodymium exposure of this type are relatively unknown, and in other circumstances the substance is known to be cytotoxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic, and because it was somewhat painful, I believe it made sense to have them removed.
here are pictures from the initial implant and then the removal
here is his comments from the removal procedure
We began cutting a flap over the more recent and more irritated of the two magnets. Rather than just cutting down and spreading the skin and trying to pull it out, the plan was to make a cut that would let us just fold open the skin over the implant and remove it either by excision, scraping it off, or irrigating it out depending on the consistency.
We couldn’t be sure what the specifics of the procedure would be until we actually got in there. The top half of one or two of the magnets pretty much just fell out, but we were left with a largely empty cyst-like shell made up of and surrounded by blackened tissue. There were some loose flakes and powder but most seemed to be a part of the spongy mass of scar tissue.
Irrigating it didn’t move anything, and it was completely adhered to the flesh around it, so there was no way to grab it and pull it out. All we could do is cut all around it and remove it as a single piece.
Some healthy tissue was removed, but the majority (if not all) of the toxic material from that side appears to be gone. going into the second side (the older of the two compromised sides) we encountered a little different tissue. The implant also sat quite a bit deeper in the flesh; deep enough that we couldn’t be completely sure at the time there wasn’t another hidden behind it (and while I think it’s gone, I won’t be entirely certain what’s left until the healing is done).
When we’d dug down deep enough to expose it, the good news was that the cyst was quite well developed. It was rooted in place a little, but we were able to pull it out without significant damage to the surrounding fingertip and with minimal excision of healthy flesh. It was seriously gross though seeing these really vile and rotten looking blobs coming out of my finger!
OK, OUCH, sounds very painfull and just more reason to thoroughly research a procedure before having it performed for the “coolness” factor.
more opinions from the experts about magnetic implants
It’s effectively a defective product, not even safe enough for a year in the body, let alone a lifetime. Steve tells me he’s considering ceasing sales of his smallest units (they are currently for sale on eBay), but honestly, especially given that we’ve known now for months that they’re not very stable, I feel that it needs to go a step farther and a recall needs to be issued for all of the silicone coated magnets that are out there. I do not believe that any of them will remain stable in the long term, and I believe that all of them will break down in time as I’ve described here.
In this magnetic implant procedure, one main simple thing went wrong: the magnet is not stable in the body, and the coating provided was not a sufficient permanent barrier between the magnet and the body. For existing people, I again strongly urge removal — and don’t kid yourself into thinking that because yours hasn’t broken down yet that you should be able to keep it. If yours hasn’t broken yet, thank your lucky stars that removal is going to be much simpler!
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