Wedding ring stuck! Help me get it off.

[caykon]

My wedding ring is tight anyway as I am a bit heavier now than when I got married, but I have always been able to get it on and off.
Last night I was helping dh demolish a wall for our extension and using the sledge hammer has flattened my wedding ring and now I cant get it off. It is very tight and my finger is a bit swollen.
Tried washing up liquid and ice to reduce swelling but its stuck not budging. I really dont want it cut off its my wedding ring

Try rubbing olive oil on the finger, under the ring etc and putting your hand into a cold bowl of water before wriggling the ring off in the water.

I used washing up liquid to get mine off when I was pg and it got stuck.

I will try the olive oil, washing up liquid didnt work.

try getting the ring as far as your knuckle then pulling the skin through rather than keep pushing the ring off.You can also try using some water with washing powder in as this makes the finger quite slippery too.

Window cleaner- any spray stuff.
Honestly, I tried EVERYTHING and that worked within seconds.
Go try it now

Soap and water? Always worked for me with a bit of tugging.

If you are using anything over the sink - make sure you put the plug in first!

you could carefully hit the other side with the sledge hammer to reshape - see i can be both helpful and dangerous

Hand cream - lashings and lashings of the stuff. It was a tip from a jeweller and worked for me after I put on a pound or two (or ten!)

another vote for window cleaner - I put hand in air in ice for about 10 mins, sprayed on the cleaner and then it came off (with a lot of twisting).

Just tried the window cleaner but just couldnt get it over the swelling so going to ice it and wait for the swelling to recede a bit and give it another go.

nappy I did consider doing that but the other side has diamonds in it and was worried about knocking them out and doing more damage.

Make sure you twist it off rather than pull it off. It will feel like it's stuck on the knuckle but keep going- if you get on the knuckle you'remorethan halfway there- don't go back!
I got my engagement ring well and truly stuck but eventually got it off first time with window cleaner.

its too swollen to get it too the knuckle yet, but can stll twist it on the base of my finger so not cutting off circulation yet. Will let it calm down then use the window cleaner.

I'd wait until you are mid-cycle if you are not already. I had to have mine cut off last year and it was fine. There was a slight problem as they cut through either the hallmark or inscription (can't remember) but it was sent away to be sorted and was fine.

I can't work out what kind of spray window cleaner you are all talking about. Most of those are water and vinegar aren't they?

I've seen this done in a hospital with my grandmother's arthritic knuckles.

Wind a strong thread over the swollen part of your finger. Leave a long bit of the thread on the inner side, near the ring. Try and move the ring onto the wound part of your finger. Try and free the end of the thread so it's on the other side of the ring, then start to unwind. What should happen is: the thread compresses your finger, unwinding it pushes the ring from behind.

MIL bought a jade bracelet in China last month- couldn't get it on/off at first & shop lady suggested putting her hand in a plastic bag!?!
I was very but have since seen her do it & it definately won't come off with anything else!
Don't know if it will wotk with gold, but it might be worth a try
If not, take faith that I had my wedding ring cut off when I got my finger trapped moving a piano- 9 years later & it doesn't seem to have affected our relationship

The sppray window cleaner is just this stuff
Works a treat on windows as well

The swelling is going down and the ring is still on, I want to get it off so I can have it reshaped.
My wedding ring is platinum will putting loads of window cleaner on it affect it in any way?

when you get the ring up to the knuckle bend your finger, (tip from bloke in posh ring shop) a ring that is totally jammed on a straight finger, at the knuckle, will slide over a bent finger

Hand cream

I would go to a jewellers to ge them to take it off. You can take the pain better when someone else is doing it.