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Removing a Ring That Is Stuck On Your Finger?

Tips for removing a ring that is stuck on your finger. Post your ideas.

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March 5, 20050 found this helpful
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WD-40 can be used a get a stuck ring off, just give a light spray.

By IMAQT1962

 
March 5, 20050 found this helpful
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I worked in a jewelry store and we always used Windex. If you have pulled and tugged on the ring, your finger might be swollen. Soak your hand in ice water for a while before trying the Windex.

 

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Soap or cooking oil will help lubricate the ring and make it slip off easier. If your finger is swollen and the ring is firmly stuck the circulation to the finger can be restricted. If the above measures don't work most hospital emergency departments in Australia have ring cutting equipment to remove the ring before there is any lasting damage. The ring can be repaired afterwards.

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Regards

Jo

 
March 6, 20051 found this helpful
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I was given this tip by a jeweler who used this trick for pregnant women with swollen fingers before he resorted to cutting the ring off: use hemorrhoid cream! It reduces the swelling and greases up the finger so that the ring slides right off. Then just clean as usual.

 
July 2, 20160 found this helpful

It works really good

 
By Rasalin (Guest Post)
April 23, 20050 found this helpful
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Slide dental floss under the ring and wind the floss around tightly and evenly past the first knuckle. Move ring up as you wind.

 

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September 26, 20090 found this helpful
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Don't keep tugging, your finger swells. Try soap, oil, or washing up liquid. Failing all else I've seen one of the guys in the fire station cut a ring off a child's finger, and boy, did he like the attention!

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Marg from England.

 
September 27, 20090 found this helpful
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When I was a kid my Mother washed a washateria. One time we were there a lady got her hand caught in a wringer. Her fingers were swelling fast, and she could not get her ring off. One of the ladies ran grabbed a bottle of bleach and poured in on her hand. The ring came off. With out the bleach she would have probably lost her finger, we were about 30 miles to the hospital. Since then when I have a ring that hard to get off I use bleach. It has never hurt any ring. If your finger is swollen you might do as Danialle said and soak your hand in ice water first to bring down the swelling.

 

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September 26, 20090 found this helpful

Wash your hands with soap. While the soap is on your hands the ring might possibly slide off. Also try holding your hands under cold water or soak in ice water.

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This will cause your had to shrink from the cold and the ring should come off.

 

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September 26, 20090 found this helpful

Rub oil on your hands, or shortening.

 

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September 26, 20090 found this helpful

Soaking my hand as long as could stand it in ice water always worked for me except one time when I had gained fifteen pounds and had to pay to have it cut off by a jeweler and resized :-( But shortly after lost those pesky pounds and had to pay to have it resized again ;-) LOL!

 
September 26, 20090 found this helpful

Hi! I had to have minor surgery two weeks ago and the very wise RN used just a spritz of Windex on my ring finger and my rings slid right off. The more you tug and twist, the more your finger swells.

 

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September 27, 20090 found this helpful

liquid hand soap

 
December 14, 20090 found this helpful

Try rubbing dish soap or butter around and under the ring, then twist and pull untill it slides off.

 
January 22, 20100 found this helpful

It worked! It worked! It worked!. After trying several other methods, and with some skepticism, windex worked!

 
February 13, 20100 found this helpful

I fell asleep with my rings on my fingers. My finger swelled during the night, and I didn't think I would ever get my rings off without cutting them off. I read the tips here, and tried the dental floss/Windex suggestion. Thank you, thank you, thank you! It worked!

 
April 7, 20100 found this helpful

I tried the cold water and then used the dental floss. They worked! Thank you so much for the advice.

 
December 31, 20120 found this helpful

I sat with my hand above my head for about 5 minutes while I searched the web on how to remove my stuck ring. I had already tried water, olive oil, and ice and nothing was working so I came here and saw to use Windex.

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I did it and just twisted slowly while pulling slowly and sprayed my finger one more time and then it came off, I will tell everyone about Windex and removing a stuck ring!

 
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June 4, 20160 found this helpful

this happened to me and my dad went to b&q to buy some wire cutters it cut straight away but if you don't want to break your ring then do NOT use this method

 
Anonymous
February 17, 20170 found this helpful

Get that ring off...This really works.....
I tried just about everything to get my class ring off. Soap, butter, the ribbon trick, dental floss, so on.... but the extra pudge on my finger would not allow the ring to come off. Then what I did next worked. I remembered a friend did this with her belly flab. She was a body builder and did this for shows. I baught a new tube of preparation H, yes you heard me correctly. I put a healthy amount on the fatty part of my finger (all around) just above my class ring. Then I wrapped my finger, ring included, with cling wrap. I then covered that with medical tape. I let the concoction sit for 5 hours so the preparation H could work. (I statred at 2am because my finger hurt and could not sleep) After unwrapping my finger (don't remove the preparation H) I put gel soap around my finger and under my ring.

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I then slipped some balloon ribbon under the ring and used my thumb to hold the ribbon in place. I wound the ribbon tightly (about 3 feet or so) around my finger. I pulled the ribbon that my thumb was holding and unwound the ring along with the ribbon. I was stunned that it worked. It did hurt alittle but not ad much as using the ribbon or soap alone. That ring had not been off in 30 years! Don't try to pull or wotk the ring off until you use the ribbon, you could make the finger swollen again...

 

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