Skinnier fingers, lost my ring! š
keenest37
Posts: 61 Member
Since I've been losing weight my rings have been getting looser. I actually ordered a kit to help them stay in place. I hadn't opened it up and read the instructions yet. All of a sudden over the weekend I realized my engagement ring was gone. It's not one of those 3 carart diamond numbers, just a pretty little sapphire with 2 little diamonds on the side. I love it. Had it almost 5 years. I don't care much about jewelry otherwise. I'm so bummed. I keep hoping it will turn up since we had been home for hours already when I discovered it was gone. I guess there is a drawback to losing weight. On a positive note, I hit my lowest weight so far on the scale today 197.2 - after going over my calories by 250 yesterday!!
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Aw. I'm hoping it turns up.
It is frustrating. I've lost jewelry at home too. Seems like it should be easy to find, huh?2 -
I hate losing things. You just know it's sitting there somewhere but where?? Tell me! I want to know!!0
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I had this problem when I was previously engaged and lost weight. After temporarily losing the ring twice (luckily it was in my house), I bought those ring spacers with the plan to eventually get the ring resized.
I hope you find your ring. Call the service desk at any store you shopped at, call the local police station and post a picture on a local facebook group. Good luck.2 -
Aw, I'm sorry.
Anecdote. I lost my wedding ring in 2008. Since then I had gotten a divorce and remarried. This past Christmas I was going through some bins, and lo and behold, there was my wedding ring, over 10 years later!
Hopefully yours shows up and sooner than 10 years
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Ha ha. Wow. Thanks! 0
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I've so sorry to hear you've lost your ring
I really hope it turns up for you...
The only thing is insurance will cover it and it can be replaced - I know its not ideal and it wont be the same but its something.
I almost lost one of my rings too when I lost weight, went down two ring sizes.2 -
I have had this happen a few times. Worst was losing my wedding ring in a bag of leaves when I was raking in the fall. I had to dump 12 bags before I found it. At work I lost my ring once and ran all over the office looking for it. It turned out I had dropped it in my purse when I reached in to get something there. My hands swell and shrink, depending on how much water I'm retaining. I wrap a piece of athletic tape around it so it doesn't slide off as easily. I haven't had a problem since.2
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When my rings started getting loose I took them off and bought some gold filled bands off Etsy. They are about $20 and I can keep buying them in smaller sizes. When i hit my goal weight and have stayed at that weight a year I'll re-size my wedding rings4
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I lost my wedding ring...it was titanium, so it couldn't be resized. I had stopped wearing it at some point in my weight loss because it kept slipping. My wife started noticing that I never wore my ring and it upset her even though I explained why...so I started wearing it again and just told myself I would be very careful. One day it was just gone and I have no idea where I lost it.
I have a silicon ring now that my wife gave me for Christmas.4 -
It is so upsetting when you lose something with so much meaning.
I have had rings drop off as well. One I found in my handbag later that day and the other was under the mattress where I had tucked a sheet in several days later.
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Yup, lost my diamond ring at the gym once, but found it. Itās been in the safe ever since. I wear a plain gold band and actually like not being flashy.2
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Mine went missing last year. I had mostly stopped wearing it, and had plans to get it resized so I kept putting it in my purse, forgetting, then moving it back to my jewelry box. I had pretty much exclusively switched to silicon rings.
I went to get it one day for a special occasion and couldnāt find it! I was convinced I had put it in my purse again and it had fallen out or been stolen while I was out and about. Months later after having looked in every place imaginable, and after I had nearly given up on ever finding it, it turned up. We were moving, and one of the movers found it when he took our bed frame apart. We think it had gotten lodged in between the frame and box springs, as I had already pulled the bed out, and mattress off looking for it. I must have worn it to bed and had it fall off in my sleep.1 -
Sorry, OP, i hope you will find it. I will add to many stories here, because mine fell off few times as well, and i was able to see it or hear it. One time it came off while i was doing the laundry, just slipped off into the pile. Took a bit to find, i was going crazy looking everywhere. Good luck!0
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I so hope you can find it! And I will add to the ring finding list. My husband has lost his ring: 1. in the ācleaningsā after a deer hunt. We only noticed 2 days later after I had all the meat in the freezer but he went back to the bush and found it in the mess. 2. In a waterski glove while on the lake. The glove floated though and we found the ring once the boats settled down for the night. 3. While placing styrofoam insulation around the outside foundation, 2ā below ground level of our then 120y/o house. We metal detected the whole yard with no luck but found it in the ice two years later on the walkway we had shoveled all winter. 4. Gone for good? It came off in another glove while he was hauling water for the farm animals in -35C weather. We know approximately where, we just cannot find it in the grass and gravel at the community well. My biggest regret is not getting it engraved. I love finding old things and it would be neat if someone found it one day and could read the engraving.
Good luck on the hunt and May you be as lucky as we were the first three times!!5 -
Oh wow! My husband lost his $45 Kmart wedding ring somewhere at work. We replaced it with a $15 ring we found in Chinatown!
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One more story, my husband lost his first wedding ring a month after we got married. He put it in his gym shorts pocket, and went for a run on the track.
We never found it. We bought an identical replacement. How e canāt wear it at work. When silicon rings hit the market he switched. He still gets his tungsten ring out occasionally, but likes that he can wear the silicon ones and not worry about taking them off, or losing them. After two years I think heās on his 3rd one.0 -
So if you used a tote bag to go grocery shopping, check in those bags, the car trunk, pocketbook, maybe outside of your car door on the ground or grass. Good luck and sorry it is lost.1
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cwolfman13 wrote: Ā»I lost my wedding ring...it was titanium, so it couldn't be resized. I had stopped wearing it at some point in my weight loss because it kept slipping. My wife started noticing that I never wore my ring and it upset her even though I explained why...so I started wearing it again and just told myself I would be very careful. One day it was just gone and I have no idea where I lost it.
I have a silicon ring now that my wife gave me for Christmas.jaymijones wrote: Ā»One more story, my husband lost his first wedding ring a month after we got married. He put it in his gym shorts pocket, and went for a run on the track.
We never found it. We bought an identical replacement. How e canāt wear it at work. When silicon rings hit the market he switched. He still gets his tungsten ring out occasionally, but likes that he can wear the silicon ones and not worry about taking them off, or losing them. After two years I think heās on his 3rd one.
I never heard of silicone rings before! What brand did you guys get? Pictures?
@keenest37 good luck finding your ring. I don't have a found ring story, but I did find my FitBit a few times before I lost it forever.2 -
Sorry that happened. š„ I hope it turns up.
I almost lost my wedding set down a drain, so I had it resized. They're loose again, but the jeweler said wait until final goal to get them resized again. Most rings can only be resized twice. My engagement ring spins around my finger. The wedding band holds it on.1 -
I got ring spacers I think thats the name. They are plastic and you wrap it around the back of the ring. Works great and now my stays on my finger!
I got a new wedding set after my was stolen from a break in. I loveeeee my new set and would be so upset if I lost them. My cost more to downsize since they are soldered together.1 -
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These are quite a bit more than I spent on mine. If you go to to Amazon and search āsilicone ringsā hundreds of options come up. I have a large collection of multi colored ones I bought in cheap sets so I can mix and coordinate with my watch bands and outfits. I havenāt had one break yet. My husband has had two start to crack after more than a year of wear and tear on each one, but he also only gets the cheap ones. The first two he had were just black, but he recently bought a bigger set of greyscale colors, because they were a better deal than a single black one and now heās set for awhile.
My favorite part is that Iām not worried about them breaking, getting lost, or having to be cut off in an emergency. I wore one on a trip to Hawaii last year, a whole week of swimming, hiking, a playing and it never budged, but even if it had it was cheap, and easily replaceable.1 -
kshama2001 wrote: Ā»cwolfman13 wrote: Ā»I lost my wedding ring...it was titanium, so it couldn't be resized. I had stopped wearing it at some point in my weight loss because it kept slipping. My wife started noticing that I never wore my ring and it upset her even though I explained why...so I started wearing it again and just told myself I would be very careful. One day it was just gone and I have no idea where I lost it.
I have a silicon ring now that my wife gave me for Christmas.jaymijones wrote: Ā»One more story, my husband lost his first wedding ring a month after we got married. He put it in his gym shorts pocket, and went for a run on the track.
We never found it. We bought an identical replacement. How e canāt wear it at work. When silicon rings hit the market he switched. He still gets his tungsten ring out occasionally, but likes that he can wear the silicon ones and not worry about taking them off, or losing them. After two years I think heās on his 3rd one.
I never heard of silicone rings before! What brand did you guys get? Pictures?
@keenest37 good luck finding your ring. I don't have a found ring story, but I did find my FitBit a few times before I lost it forever.
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It's a bummer. I've lost rings before. I used ring guards until I reached maintenance. They are springy metal bands that a jeweler puts inside the back side of your rings. They worked great for me! Hope you find your ring.1
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I lost a class ring one time and looked everywhere for it. When we moved, I was hoping it might turn up somewhere. It didn't. I decided to get it replaced.
About 20 years later a plumber under the house where we lived found the ring and took it to the postmaster. The postmaster said he remembered who had lived in that house and tracked me down in another state. He asked me if I could identify a few details about it, and I could. He sent it to me.
I wanted to send the plumber a gift card or something to thank him for sending it in, but the postmaster who not tell me who it was. The guy just wanted me to pay it forward.
After hearing where it was found, I remembered an evening when I heard noise under the house and crawled under it to find out what was going on. It was a skunk, and so I made a hasty retreat. I am pretty sure that was when it fell off.
Now that I have lost weight, the old one fits again, and the replacement is three sizes too big! I am back to the original wedding ring too, although the one I had been wearing (that is also three sizes too big) was bought as a set for our 25th wedding anniversary, so eventually I will get it resized or something.
Good luck getting your ring back!3 -
Hi OP - am sorry you have lost your lovely sounding ring. Hope you find it. x1
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Still hasn't turned up. š0
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Did you call the places you'd been that day to ask if anyone turned in a found ring? I had to have my wedding rings sized up after menopause when my knuckles got bigger even though I'd lost weight.
Dr. says the big knuckles are an early sign of arthritis. I don't remember what it cost, but not too much. They just cut the ring and add in some extra material. They could size down too. 0 -
kshama2001 wrote: Ā»cwolfman13 wrote: Ā»I lost my wedding ring...it was titanium, so it couldn't be resized. I had stopped wearing it at some point in my weight loss because it kept slipping. My wife started noticing that I never wore my ring and it upset her even though I explained why...so I started wearing it again and just told myself I would be very careful. One day it was just gone and I have no idea where I lost it.
I have a silicon ring now that my wife gave me for Christmas.jaymijones wrote: Ā»One more story, my husband lost his first wedding ring a month after we got married. He put it in his gym shorts pocket, and went for a run on the track.
We never found it. We bought an identical replacement. How e canāt wear it at work. When silicon rings hit the market he switched. He still gets his tungsten ring out occasionally, but likes that he can wear the silicon ones and not worry about taking them off, or losing them. After two years I think heās on his 3rd one.
I never heard of silicone rings before! What brand did you guys get? Pictures?
@keenest37 good luck finding your ring. I don't have a found ring story, but I did find my FitBit a few times before I lost it forever.
I have a QALO...it's this one, except mine is black.
They make all kinds of colors and different designs and whatnot.0 -
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