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Any tips for getting rings off!

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cocoachannel · 31/01/2011 12:18

Hi,

I am just coming up for 37 weeks and have still been wearing my engagement and wedding rings. Midwife recommended I take them off now in case I need a C-section or intervention in an operating room where they must be removed.

Of course, I can't get them off now! I've tried soap, olive oil and vaseline to no avail...

Thank you!

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Crystylline · 31/01/2011 12:20

use ice to reduce the swelling and then try oil or washing up liquid...

BlingLoving · 31/01/2011 12:20

You need your hands to be cold - they'll shrink a little, making the soap etc work better. Chill them with cold water and try again?

Hope it helps.

ethelina · 31/01/2011 12:22

Try holding your hand from the wrist on in a bowl of cold water for as long as you can stand it. Cooling the hand may contract things enough to soap them off. (Its only a guess, mind, I just remember how my rings always get stuck in the heat and feel loose in the cold.)

justmilkpleasenosugar · 31/01/2011 12:24

Another vote here for the cold water and oil, soap way.

Also turn the rings not the skin..you don't want to pull at the skin.

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cocoachannel · 31/01/2011 12:25

Thank you all! Will give the ice a go.

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potplant · 31/01/2011 12:26

I used icy water and washing up liquid.
Its surprising how easy they are to get off when they threaten to cut them off!

LadyOfTheFlowers · 31/01/2011 12:27

Go out for a walk with no gloves on.

I am sat in my delapidated old house and my rings are spinning round!

Ellielou02 · 31/01/2011 12:29

You could try a thread slipped through the ring then move in a circular motion whilst pulling the thread :)

MedicalEd · 31/01/2011 12:47

I got mine off in the shower first thing in the morning - your hands swell more as the day goes on so try that.

helenlouisey · 31/01/2011 13:52

If you've been trying to get them off already today I'd leave it for now and try again tomorrow first thing in the morning. I had the same thing, I couldn't get ny rings off and made my fingers even worse the evening I tried to get them off. I tried everything, ice, olive oil, washing up liquid, you name it. I got them off first thing the next morning as soon as i woke up with cold water and soap. Good luck :)

owlbooty · 31/01/2011 13:52

Best advice I got was to get someone else to ease them off for you - much easier that trying to do it one-handed. And soap.

OnEdge · 31/01/2011 13:55

what ellielou02 said. we used to do that in A&E when i was a student nurse.

mum2JRC · 31/01/2011 13:56

I had this problem with my firs pregnancy. I had lots of swelling due to pre-eclampsia. Even with ice etc I could not get them off.
I ended up needing an EMCS (failure to progress) and they never even mentioned taking my rings off I just went to theatre as I was.
It took about another 2 weeks after delivery for the swelling to go down and for me to get my rings off

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cocoachannel · 31/01/2011 16:14

Thanks everyone. No luck today so will heed the advice to try again tomorrow.

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pickledsiblings · 31/01/2011 16:27

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sh77 · 31/01/2011 16:44

I would second giving it a rest until tomorrow. The more you try, the more your finger will swell up.

NotActuallyAMum · 31/01/2011 16:47

E45 cream, and 'twist' it off rather than 'pulling'

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