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Please help me avoid the most embarrassing trip to A&E

198 replies

Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 11:19

My menstrual disc is stuck. Please help me. The instructions I find online don't work. I can't just get my finger under it and pull it out. I can barely reach it and bearing down doesn't change anything as it just goes back up again.
There's a little hook but it's pointing the wrong way so I can't use it. Can't grip the disc and can't get thumb or second finger up there. Squatting doesn't work either.

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Mochacino · 05/12/2023 17:50

Squat and cough.

if you came to ED I’d also be sending you off to do that in the first instance.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 05/12/2023 17:50

The story I was told, by the husband of a friend, was of a woman who got a carrot stuck. Apparently it was in her fruit bowl and she fell on it and landed awkwardly.

SignoraItaliana · 05/12/2023 17:54

An A&E nurse told me about the man (probably also a vicar, they usually are) who got a coffee table leg stuck up his bum while hoovering naked, like you do. He apparently did himself some significant damage.

OP, go to minor injuries or A&E.

bananablues · 05/12/2023 17:54

A husband or partner could help. But basically relax (remembering my early mooncup efforts). Sometimes it is the suction causing an issue or just tensing up. Give it a break for a hour, have a glass of wine and just sit over side of a bath or stand in one, lift a leg onto the side and try again.

housethatbuiltme · 05/12/2023 17:54

Have you tried emptying your bowel?

Sometime the pressure can change the positioning or the vagina or things within the vagina as well as giving more 'space'.

NappiesAndBunFluff · 05/12/2023 17:58

If you can't work it loose by staying and bearing down and can't reach it with (preferably well lubricated) fingers then please don't be embarrassed to go to a&e. They won't be bothered in the slightest and at least this is something that's supposed to be up there rather than random vegetables, household items, small pets, etc.

housethatbuiltme · 05/12/2023 18:00

LylaLee · 05/12/2023 17:43

The explanation is always 'I fell on it.'

There's a story with one guy (I think in the story it was a vicar) who was 'hanging curtains - in the nude - when he slipped and fell on a peeled potato. Unfortunately he sat on it and it entered rectally.

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Its making me think of the 'blackpool sandcastle' post earlier today where the lady said she was swimming in the crowded pool when monumentally a strange mans dirty toe got stuck up her arsehole.

Maybe sometimes accidents just happen lol.

RafaistheKingofClay · 05/12/2023 18:01

It’s going to be a lot less embarrassing to go with a stuck menstrual disc than it is to go with a menstrual disc and assorted injuries from the stuff you’ve tried to get it out with.

AInightingale · 05/12/2023 18:01

NappiesAndBunFluff · 05/12/2023 17:58

If you can't work it loose by staying and bearing down and can't reach it with (preferably well lubricated) fingers then please don't be embarrassed to go to a&e. They won't be bothered in the slightest and at least this is something that's supposed to be up there rather than random vegetables, household items, small pets, etc.

Yes, this is not in the same league at all as men sticking items up their jacksies in search of thrills. I don't know why OP is so embarrassed really.

fulawitt · 05/12/2023 18:04

Do not put anything else apart from your fingers (clean) in there OP.
Calm down. relax and try again. deep expiration can help aswell. Once you can feel the bugger get to the side of it with one finger push it down gently and voila. If you do not have a bath and the squatting does not work you can lie down on the side, squatting does not always help. Put a towel underneath yourself. If nothing helps go to a and e, it happens all the time.

BatildaB · 05/12/2023 18:06

I was in a similar situation with a conception cup that seemed to have fused onto my cervix. I know you said getting thumb in place is not working but if you can find a position where you have a finger and thumb available then I found that the technique of making the smallest possible pinch of the silicone, like just millimetres of it, popped the seal and then it was easy. Hope you’ve sorted it by now though

Mariposista · 05/12/2023 18:07

This. To them it’s a body and you can request a female doctor

please don’t stick tweezers up your vagina

Headshoulderscheeseontoast · 05/12/2023 18:08

I can't believe people are advising you to stick random objects up your foo instead of going to a&e! Ffs

Gnomegnomegnome · 05/12/2023 18:09

Don’t stick anything else up there to get it out and don’t joke about sepsis.

Stop being a baby and go to the hospital.

fulawitt · 05/12/2023 18:09

pinching the bugger is the best advice.

ApoodlecalledPenny · 05/12/2023 18:10

I’d give yourself a couple of hours to relax and try again later. My mooncup got stuck first time (it wasn’t really stuck, but I didn’t have a good technique so it felt like it!) I think I had a bath to relax, did the squat and bear down thing and it worked. A&E will be rammed, so avoid it for that reason if you can.

Gnomegnomegnome · 05/12/2023 18:11

Btw random things my colleagues have removed from people- can of soup, a Disney toy, a remote control. This really isn’t as embarrassing for staff as you think it is.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 05/12/2023 18:11

I've always been afraid to try these things for exactly this reason - I've never been keen on rummaging around up there.

If you have a walk-in sexual health clinic near you they would be the best ones to deal with it - they do a lot of list tampons and I guess this is the modern version of that.

Saytheyhear · 05/12/2023 18:13

Has it ever leaked? If so what were u doing? Could u do that again?

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 05/12/2023 18:15

Go to A&E, Dr's have seen it all, screwdrivers in the anus, things shoved down the Penis and all manner of items wedged in the vagina. So your cup wouldn't even be worthy of tearoom chatter in an a&e dept. Don't be embarrassed just go. Sepsis is deadly!!

TomatoSandwiches · 05/12/2023 18:18

Gnomegnomegnome · 05/12/2023 18:11

Btw random things my colleagues have removed from people- can of soup, a Disney toy, a remote control. This really isn’t as embarrassing for staff as you think it is.

A can of soup!

LylaLee · 05/12/2023 18:21

housethatbuiltme · 05/12/2023 18:00

Its making me think of the 'blackpool sandcastle' post earlier today where the lady said she was swimming in the crowded pool when monumentally a strange mans dirty toe got stuck up her arsehole.

Maybe sometimes accidents just happen lol.

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The fuck

CrackersCheeseAndWinePlease · 05/12/2023 18:23

Gnomegnomegnome · 05/12/2023 18:11

Btw random things my colleagues have removed from people- can of soup, a Disney toy, a remote control. This really isn’t as embarrassing for staff as you think it is.

Can of soup 😳 you can't comment that and not tell us more. How? Why? Where? I have so many questions 😂

FKATondelayo · 05/12/2023 18:25

This thread is the best advert for sanitary towels ever.

Headband · 05/12/2023 18:25

CrackersCheeseAndWinePlease · 05/12/2023 18:23

Can of soup 😳 you can't comment that and not tell us more. How? Why? Where? I have so many questions 😂

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We had an apple, can of deodorant and a metal rod (from an elderly gentleman wearing a suit and tie)