This movie has many suggestions, not every one very practical, but Ringo had more incentive to get the ring off.
Hannibal: This is really gonna hurt.
Any updates, @Paul_was_in_Saudi ?
I am learning to live with it until the weather turns colder. Supposedly, everyone’s hands shrink in the winter. I will also mention it to my doctor next time I see him. After that, I suppose I will get one of those little rotary hobby tools for Christmas.
I am happy to report that there are nice silicone, stretchy, rings available as a replacement.
Speaking generally, a lot of people gained weight during the pandemic due to closed gyms, anxious depression and routine disruption. This may have nothing to do with you or with this problem. But tighter rings over time aren’t unusual.
The question is whether it is a medical problem, whether the swelling is likely to go down and when. If not urgent, I would recommend your jeweller taking action rather than doing do-it-yourself procedures, but your jeweller may not be enthusiastic. You do need to go to the emergency room within minutes to hours if the blood supply is affected, as discussed above.
The ring came off last night. The swelling came down over time and a dallop of skin cream did the trick. Now the ring goes to the shop for a sizing. Perhaps I will get a new ring.
Thank you all.
If it’s a ceramic ring, sizing is going to mean selling you a new ring of a different size.
My mom jammed her finger playing basketball resulting in s stolen finger. Dad cut the ring off with a serrated steak knife.
Was he the one that stole her finger, or was he just recovering the ring for her?
Bwaaha! Didn’t proofread that, did I? Swollen. SWOLLEN!
This specific case has been resolved, but it brings to mind a more general issue: can you do liposuction on a finger?
IANAD:
A quick Google says no, you cannot do liposuction on fingers. There simply is not enough fat there to make it possible.
If it could be done, I would think that swelling due to inflammation after the procedure would be an issue if the goal is to remove a ring.
This thread turned out to be very timely. My wife just went to the fire department to get her titanium wedding ring cut off. They did it, no problem, so we brought them some Voodoo Doughnuts.
Since being pregnant (10+ years ago), the ring hasn’t been able to come off. That hasn’t really been a problem, but starting this week the joints on just that finger started to hurt, so she wanted to get the ring off. Thanks to @Dr_Paprika, we did the fingernail test, and blood flow seemed fine.
As @Paul_was_in_Saudi says, she “tried everything on the Internet,” which left the finger bruised and swollen, even though it wasn’t before. Given the option of waiting a week for the bruising and swelling to go down and trying again, or getting it cut off, she went to the fire station.
They used a ring cutter, which she said looked sort of like a can-opener with a disk that was spun by hand. It took a few minutes, but cut without any drama.
The ring was whatever sort of titanium you get when buying a $12 ring from Amazon. All of the value was in what the ring symbolized, and that remains even if the ring itself is gone, and we aren’t even materially diminished. (We spent more on the doughnuts than the original rings.) A new ring can hold the same symbolism as the old one.
When I called my mother to tell her I was pregnant, after the usual things one would say, she said “Take off your wedding ring.”
I did.
She said not to get it sized, because I’d just have to get it down-sized again-- if I wanted to wear a ring while I was pregnant, go buy a plated one for a few dollars.
I had a family wedding ring, that my mother must have forgotten I had, which was big on me, and I wore for a couple of months, but I took it off every night, and when it started to get kinda tight, I said screw it.
My own ring did not fit at all about six weeks into pregnancy, nor until about 4 months after.
She can wear a doughnut on her finger now!
Excellent thread - when I got a titanium wedding ring, I was aware of horror stories about them being ‘impossible’ to cut off in case of swelling. Glad to note that’s hyperbole and most ERs should cope somehow, if needed.
I’m currently about 40lb heavier than when I got married, but the ring doesn’t seem noticeably tighter and still comes off easily - at least in part, I think, because in my case the limiting factor seems to be the size of my finger joint rather than the finger itself.
That’s what I have.
I’m a gym rat and a shade tree mechanic, and I worried that my real wedding ring would either get destroyed or hurt me.
My wedding ring remains in fair condition. I wore it for a year or two after getting married and it rapidly picked up scratches and gouges. If I just took it for short periods when it was likely to get damaged I’d end up losing it. So it stays in my wife’s jewelry box until needed for weddings and funerals.
Ringo Starr once had a ring stuck on his finger. Someone even made a movie about his experiences when he tried to get it off. IIRC, the movie was called “Help!”