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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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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 21:04

PomegranateRose · 05/12/2023 20:49

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

Well now I've gone from feeling I was a bad person for even thinking of going to A&E (first or second post!) to thinking I should never have been embarrassed about it and being made to feel awful because I dared make a joke about sepsis!

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 21:06

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.

Lol

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 21:08

Mariposista · 05/12/2023 20:55

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

I better not say, but I have some sympathy with the doctors. In an emergency situation they can't necessarily provide female doctors for all the female patients for all kinds of problems.

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 21:11

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

Well yes as long as I'm not being grouped in with people who do those things.
I also know from doctors and nurses in my acquaintance that it's not really true that they 'don't bat an eyelid' about people inserting stupid things. They talk and laugh about it for a while after.

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LylaLee · 05/12/2023 21:15

Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 21:11

Well yes as long as I'm not being grouped in with people who do those things.
I also know from doctors and nurses in my acquaintance that it's not really true that they 'don't bat an eyelid' about people inserting stupid things. They talk and laugh about it for a while after.

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You didn't insert a stupid thing. Something normal got stuck. Like a tampon getting stuck.

AInightingale · 05/12/2023 21:20

Any doctor or nurse who laughs about a menstrual product, contraceptive etc getting stuck in a woman's body is a pretty lame embarrassment to the profession themselves. I think there was some horrible doctor on Twitter a while back who joked about removing a tampon from a female patient, and the backlash was ferocious,

Calliopespa · 05/12/2023 21:30

Can you elaborate?

Calliopespa · 05/12/2023 21:31

Calliopespa · 05/12/2023 21:30

Can you elaborate?

Oh that was to the poster about the dirty toe…

Whylurkwhenicanjoinin · 05/12/2023 21:33

The ducks 😂😂😂😂😂

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Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 21:36

"You didn't insert a stupid thing. Something normal got stuck. Like a tampon getting stuck."

I think I was a bit naive with it though. I'd already had problems with the cup and I thought I could deal with something that sits right up by the cervix where I can't reach it with my finger...

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AngryBirdsNoMore · 05/12/2023 21:39

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.

Wtf how and why would you what why how what

Calliopespa · 05/12/2023 21:39

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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Aah now it’s attached properly. Please elaborate. I can’t decide if this is hilarious or puts me off public swimming for life. Did it rip through her bathing costume? Or what?

Calliopespa · 05/12/2023 21:42

DontListenToWhatYouveConsumed · 05/12/2023 20:12

Ok this wins

HoppingPavlova · 05/12/2023 21:44

I better not say, but I have some sympathy with the doctors. In an emergency situation they can't necessarily provide female doctors for all the female patients for all kinds of problems.

It’s naive to think that only women want female Dr’s. Lots of men have it as a preference as well as most don’t like male Dr’s fishing around their balls, retrieving stuff from up their arses (not an urban myth and not uncommon in hospitals in certain areas), and indeed some just don’t like a male Dr touching them in general, maybe they think it will cause them to suddenly turn gay, who knows how their minds tick.

So most people demanding female Dr’s in A&E are going to cause chaos with throughout, leading to ramping etc. But who cares hey, as long as everyone gets what they want.

It’s very different to when I started (several decades ago), and many people asked for a male as they honestly believed that female Dr’s couldn’t be as competent- was very true. That was both men and women. That’s pretty much turned on it’s head now, however there are still a few cultures where they demand a man as they seriously believe women are inferior and can’t possibly be able to treat them properly. Unfortunately the desire to make them wait an eternity for a male is overruled by the need to shift them through as quickly as possible to free the bed. They generally get a male newbie who I wouldn’t let loose on a guinea pig and who you have to supervise and instruct in front of them😁.

Baublewarble · 05/12/2023 21:45

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

are you mute? @MyUsernameIsCake

Butterflywings18 · 05/12/2023 21:45

GoodnightJude1 · 05/12/2023 16:40

I really don’t think you’d rather have sepsis than go to your GP. That was a really silly comment.

This 👍

Calliopespa · 05/12/2023 21:45

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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I think rather than trying to claim I fell on it, I would have sanctimoniously said I was having a spring clean.

ChateauDuMont · 05/12/2023 21:48

Well I never! I have never heard of a menstrual disc!

My mind instantly conjured up a CD!

Hope you get it sorted, it sounds painful.

RafaistheKingofClay · 05/12/2023 21:52

The best thing about the WW2 story is the completely credible excuse that he was clearing out his military memorabilia collection. Naked. As you do.

Butterflywings18 · 05/12/2023 21:52

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……

This is not an embarrassing trip. Doctors and nurses don't give a flying F what youve come in with. They are really just interested in helping you then getting on with NEXT! No judgement

Butterflywings18 · 05/12/2023 21:56

Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 21:11

Well yes as long as I'm not being grouped in with people who do those things.
I also know from doctors and nurses in my acquaintance that it's not really true that they 'don't bat an eyelid' about people inserting stupid things. They talk and laugh about it for a while after.

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Rubbish

Butterflywings18 · 05/12/2023 22:02

Butterflywings18 · 05/12/2023 21:56

Rubbish

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Thankfully the Doctors I know are too professional to act like this. They may speak together in private and let of steam. They would never share stories outwith their profession.

Superduper02 · 05/12/2023 22:08

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……

😶🤢😵

Thisismyprobatequestionsname · 05/12/2023 22:37

Discsareshit · 05/12/2023 20:43

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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This made me laugh out loud and I’m having a bad day. So thank you. I checked you got it out and weren’t still grappling with it before posting this! Phew!!

TiredCatLady · 05/12/2023 22:45

Oooof I feel for you OP. Glad you got it out. This is why I can’t use menstrual cups - it’s a full battle to get them out and usually results in me in a daft position, pulling like hell and bearing down then the thing suddenly flying out and covering the bathroom with blood. Tampons and period pants all the way.