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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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housethatbuiltme · 05/12/2023 18:30

FKATondelayo · 05/12/2023 18:25

This thread is the best advert for sanitary towels ever.

Period pants are a fantastic environmental friendly option.

They really don't leak at all (had less accident with them than tampons or pads) its quite amazing and then they just wash like regular pants to reuse.

SOBplus · 05/12/2023 18:30

Ambulance worker here. Me: How did this happen? Him: Well, I was changing the light bulb and fell off the stool onto the new one.
You can guess where it was and we chose not to ask why you would change a light bulb while naked. 😅

Justvurious · 05/12/2023 18:39

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.

How do they remove them? Could they use the same technique? I haven't wanted to try them for the same reason 🙈

CrapGoat · 05/12/2023 18:45

I had a mestrual cup stuck once. I did end up in A&E. They were useless, none of them could get it out-in the end an ex of mine had to come and do it. I wasn't embarrassed though, they've seen it all. Do you have a partner/ex/very understanding friend OP?

PomegranateRose · 05/12/2023 18:45

We had someone come into our ED with a rolling pin stuck in their rectum. This is an absolutely mundane, run of the mill thing to deal with as a healthcare worker, I promise you!

That said, if it’s just this afternoon/evening you haven’t been able to reach it, I personally really wouldn’t go to a&e without giving myself a few hours to calm down as best as possible, relax, and then have another go with clean fingers. Warm bath, warm shower if you don’t have a bath. Squat and cough as others have said. It’s exactly what would be suggested in the departments I’ve worked in before anyone would be going hands on with you yet, unless you had it stuck for longer than the day or were showing symptoms of infection or injury.

Lordofmyflies · 05/12/2023 18:47

I saw someone once with a bottle of 'old spice' up their anus. Its the only time I've seen a Galleon in a rectum. Go to ED, they'll be pleased its not a piece of fruit.

ToBeOrNotToBee · 05/12/2023 18:48

housethatbuiltme · 05/12/2023 18:30

Period pants are a fantastic environmental friendly option.

They really don't leak at all (had less accident with them than tampons or pads) its quite amazing and then they just wash like regular pants to reuse.

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They also contain carcinogens in alarming quantities.

DontListenToWhatYouveConsumed · 05/12/2023 19:01

I seem to remember a news piece about a man with an unexploded WWII bomb up his arse... they had to call the bomb (bum) squad.
If you haven't fished it out (I wouldn't advise implements) go to A&E or a women's clinic.

Andthereyougo · 05/12/2023 19:12

Please, please go to a dr or A&E, don’t go inserting tweezers, spoon handles or anything else that’s been suggested! You could do a lot of damage or introduce an infection.

housethatbuiltme · 05/12/2023 19:20

ToBeOrNotToBee · 05/12/2023 18:48

They also contain carcinogens in alarming quantities.

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PFAS are used in tampons, pads and most period related stuff. Its absoloutly not unique to the pants. If anything the fact they aren't inserted reduces the risk.

Rollergirl999 · 05/12/2023 19:25

You’d rather have sepsis? What a ridiculous thing to say . It can be fatal, it killed my fit and healthy brother.

ReallyVeryOverEverything · 05/12/2023 19:41

Can't believe someone upthread suggested a crochet hook or a spoon!!

Fuck sake, don't do this.

Also, never getting over the can of soup.

dapsnotplimsolls · 05/12/2023 19:42

That can of soup is going to haunt me.

DragMeUnder · 05/12/2023 19:45

Presumably not quite as much as it haunted The Soup Harbourer 😁

BMW6 · 05/12/2023 19:46

The can of soup must have taken some real effort to insert FFS! Even the smallest can is entirely Not Pointy........😫

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 05/12/2023 19:49

A senior theatre sister I worked with told the story of a woman who was having investigations for recurrent UTIs. They did a cystoscopy and found a goldfish skeleton in her bladder. Presumably she’d inserted a baby goldfish into her urethra, for ‘fun’, and it ended up in her bladder and died there.

I also remember the surgeons coming round to see which one of the theatre nurses had the smallest hands, as a gentleman had a foreign object lodged up his bum, and having someone with tiny hands try to reach it and remove it was the last chance for him to avoid open surgery. They had tried every possible option to try to grab it, with no joy. In the end he did end up having surgery - the opened his abdomen and basically milked the object down and out.

Konfetka · 05/12/2023 19:56

In a squat like this the cervix is within easy reach.

Userengage · 05/12/2023 19:58

I remember watching an A&E programme and a man had a toilet brush stuck up his arse. Told the medics that he had gone to sit on the toilet in the dark, the floor was wet and he slipped and fell on to it. Come on.

The medical team won’t be in the least excited by your stuck disc, pretty standard I’d say.

Jillybloop393 · 05/12/2023 20:11

I do hope you manage to remove it yourself, OP, but in the meantime, this post is opening my eyes! Oh my days ... a goldfish? Really?!!

Userengage · 05/12/2023 20:15

Userengage · 05/12/2023 19:58

I remember watching an A&E programme and a man had a toilet brush stuck up his arse. Told the medics that he had gone to sit on the toilet in the dark, the floor was wet and he slipped and fell on to it. Come on.

The medical team won’t be in the least excited by your stuck disc, pretty standard I’d say.

I forgot to add that it was the brush end up his bum not the handle.

whoamitojudge · 05/12/2023 20:18

As someone who has had sepsis and nearly died from it your comment was uncalled for

noooooooo · 05/12/2023 20:20

Jezaloo don’t use tweezers or anything else sharp or pointy. Definitely not!

Have you tried lying down with your hips slightly elevated, tilting yourself open and poking it into the diagonal position with something blunt to ‘break the seal’? Someone suggested the handle of a wooden spoon, fingers would be better yet. If you’ve not got a partner have you not got a good mate (with small hands if possible) and some rubber gloves….🙀

HiCandles · 05/12/2023 20:22

I had a menstrual cup get stuck the first time I tried it. DH fished it out with me laid on my back legs akimbo. Try to relax, OP, the more stressed I got the more my vaginal muscles tensed up and the worse it got.
I am a doctor though and this would honestly be no problem at A&E or in GP. Actually this is a nice case to have, easily resolved in minutes without any diagnostic challenge or complicated treatment plan required!

noooooooo · 05/12/2023 20:24

I thought this went without saying but just in case - put a condom over whatever you use and if they’re rubber gloves make sure they’re sterile. This happened to me once and I very gently used a pelvic floor exerciser (hard plastic but shaped like a very small dildo).