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

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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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HardcoreLadyType · 05/12/2023 20:26

Look, it can’t be worse than this.

I once had sex with a tampon in, so went to A&E to have them take it out.

The nurse turned out to be a man who had previously been the manager at a fast food restaurant I worked in as a teenager.

We both pretended we had never met before.

BurntOutGirl · 05/12/2023 20:31

Userengage · 05/12/2023 20:15

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

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We had the handle end in theatre last week....

OhThatHappenedWhatNow · 05/12/2023 20:37

I 2nd go and relax, give your self an orgasm and then try to fish it out with your fingers again.

LunaTheCat · 05/12/2023 20:39

For the love of god to not put crochet hooks., coat hangers or wooden spoons up there.
agree empty bowels, and warm bath and squat - if no luck see health professional - nothing will phase them! Don’t be embarrassed!

ThreeRingCircus · 05/12/2023 20:42

Hopefully it's now out but if not, I would try and poo and also have an orgasm. Then do a really deep squat and try again. Stay calm.

If you have to go to A&E please do not worry or feel embarrassed. There's nothing to be embarrassed about and won't be the weirdest thing they've even done that day.

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:43

Ohthatsfabulousdarling · 05/12/2023 16:16

Do you have a partner?
This is the kind of thing I'd cry to my husband about and see if he would help me retrieve...luckily haven't had to, but I would!

I have a bf and he was here today, but I just couldn't bring myself to ask him.
He thought I was constipated or something with all the long trips to the toilet and panicky eyes.

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:45

Well thanks everyone. I went out at 5pm with a pad and period knickers in case I leaked. Walking home afterwards I could feel it quite a bit and when I got home it had lowered by itself and I could get it out.
What a relief!

I'm happy, but also sad because I thought a disc was the answer to dealing with a heavy flow, the worry of having enough tampons on me, how to dispose with used ones when I'm not in a place with a sanatory bin etc.
Never again!

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MyUsernameIsCake · 05/12/2023 20:45

Please don’t put pointy things inside you!

I thought I got a tampon stuck and after hours of trying to get it out, I called my Dad to babysit my daughter (husband was working) and drove to A&E with a pre-typed note on my phone explaining the situation and how long it had been in me.

A few hours later, I got seen. The doctor said they get loads of women in for this, and it’s usually not up there - as was my case 🙈 so I felt very foolish. But the doctor said they would always prefer patients to come in and get checked than for someone to be too embarrassed and become ill. Or worse, do themselves some damage with a DIY retrieval attempt!

Hope you get safely sorted.

fulawitt · 05/12/2023 20:47

Happy for you OP.

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:47

Headband · 05/12/2023 17:08

Same here 😬

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I remember Richard and Judy discussing this years ago.

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MyUsernameIsCake · 05/12/2023 20:48

Hurray!! 🥳

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:48

mushroomushroom · 05/12/2023 17:13

I had this once with a menstrual cup rather than disc. Completely panicked and made my then boyfriend leave work early to come help me 😅 I managed to get it out myself about two minutes before he got home though!

Get in the bath (or shower) naked and squat like the yoga pose "malasana" (google it if you don't know it) and push down like you're going to do a poo, with your fingers inside yourself. By doing that it came down enough that I could break the vacuum and manage to get a grip on it.

If that doesn't work I would go to A&E. definitely do NOT use a tweezers!!!! You don't want to also have internal wounds on top of a stuck disc!!

Thanks. I've fixed it now, but discs don't have suction in the same way as cups. The problem with discs is that they sit so high up. My finger just couldn't reach.

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ZZGirl · 05/12/2023 20:49

I got a mooncup to try and got it stuck and my DH had to get it out for me. I moved to period pants and have never looked back

PomegranateRose · 05/12/2023 20:49

Glad it's sorted itself out, OP! Hope you can relax now this evening 🙂

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:49

JamieJ93 · 05/12/2023 17:26

Oh yes, I'm sure you'd rather have sepsis!
As it goes, I had sepsis and nearly had to have my left leg amputated,
What a stupid insensitive comment!!

I obviously didn't mean it literally!

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:52

LylaLee · 05/12/2023 17:48

I had a cup. It felt like the suction would pull out my cervix. That was my last time using one.

There was a disposable one which was really comfy but I couldn't justify the cost and waste.

I actually had problems taking out a cup too, but it resolved in ten minutes rather than 12 hours like today.
I put the issues with the cup down to the suction, which discs don't have.
The sad thing is that it was really comfortable when it was in.

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:53

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'.

That didn't help, unfortunately. I also thought the bearing down would help, but it didn't. It finally moved while I was walking (or maybe it was just time?).

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:54

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

Where I live the A&E has a big sign stating that you can't choose the sex of your doctor.
I know it's aimed at, but it applies to everyone.

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Mariposista · 05/12/2023 20:55

Seriously?? That is awful. What country is that????

Notimeforaname · 05/12/2023 20:56

Jesus I haven't unclenched once since reading this thread 🤣😅 So glad you got it sorted op!!

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:57

AInightingale · 05/12/2023 18:01

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.

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I think the embarrassment was a slight feeling of guilt that I already knew I'd done something stupid. I bought one that you insert with an applicator - quite a new thing for discs I think - and not really a well-known brand. I had only tried it once before. When I put it in last night I then couldn't reach it so had been feeling a bit stupid since then really that I had inserted something in a place I had no access too and that makes me feel a bit stupid.

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:58

FKATondelayo · 05/12/2023 18:25

This thread is the best advert for sanitary towels ever.

Tampons for ever from now on even if I do now have to change them very often and the disc can be kept in for 12 hours.

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NappiesAndBunFluff · 05/12/2023 21:00

Glad to hear it's come out now, hopefully some of the other stories on here give you a giggle

Twilight7777 · 05/12/2023 21:02

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.

The poor fish!

PosyPrettyToes · 05/12/2023 21:02

It honestly is so run of the mill that we wouldn’t bat an eyelid. We’ve removed several rubber ducks (as in, at once, from the same person, packed in like mutant bird anal beads!), soooooo many remote controls, a couple of courgettes, a butternut squash, a large can of hairspray……

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