Do you have a tried and true method for removing a ring?

Butter or shortening and then ice water might work.
Edit:
A, this is in general, but I did have to laugh.

Ok, so you’ve tried a lot of stuff. Have someone suck it off your finger?

When I was in this situation, and nothing else worked, I kept my hand in a bucket of ice for a loooong time, and finally it came off. I second @Adirondackwannabe‘s idea of rubbing something slippery on the finger first.

Butter or astrolube.

Unless you wouldn’t mind the $50 co-pay to have the emergency room doctor reattach the finger, you might consider cutting the ring.
You are going to have to have it resized anyway, if you plan to continue wearing it.

Hold your hand above your head with an icepack on it after reducing your salt intake, then lube it up and yank! Or cut the ring off and get it resized.

I stand corrected. Evidently sucking on the finger works also.

It’s moments like this that I’m glad I take my ring off every night, despite my grandmother threatening my husband’s life if he ever removed his.
I’ve never found soap to be as effective as oil or shortening. I suspect you may have to get it cut off, though, if it is really that stuck.

Just a thought but would Preparation H or something like that offer any hope?

If it is the knuckle that has gotten bigger, joints can swell from arthritis. Then the answer maybe getting it cut off by a jeweler ( they can make a clean cut and re-size it ).

The ring not the finger !

Okay, I was about to have another surgery and this doctor stated that my wedding band would have to be removed. I said no way. I had the same problem as you. I insisted it would not come off my finger because of my knuckle, like you. This doctor just smiled and said, “watch this”.......he brought out a string, which looked like dental floss and pushed one end of the string under my ring. For five minutes, he kept pulling the string back and forth as he circled around my ring. Within a few minutes, my ring came off my finger!!

How did this work? I will never know. Ask a friend to do the same for you. I would suggest something really slippery on the ring finger before beginning. jp

@john65pennington What a cool trick!

My fingers have been growing bigger, I think because I am getting fatter. I need to take my ring off whenever I drum, which is usually around once a week. I had started lubing it with dish soap, but I found that saliva is just as good.

I slowly pull the ring off, twisting as I go, and, while it can hurt a little, the pain doesn’t last long, and eventually it comes off. When I do this, I remind myself of criminals and Nazis who tell people they better get their rings off, of they will lose their fingers. I think this is usually enough motivation to make it happen.

@wundayatta sheesh, that’s an interesting idea.
@john65pennington I have never heard that before, but I’d really love to know if the OP tries it how it works out. Was the string just string, or was it actually dental floss? Waxed, I mean.

ANef is Enuf, honestly I do not know. I was partially sedated before surgery and I drifted in and out. Wish I knew.

@john65pennington it’s really interesting. I hope the @smilingheart1 does try it and lets us know. That could be a really valuable little nugget!

This is generating enough response somebody must find it a great question?

Well lets use a little physics shall we. :) So we know what you need are a ton of agents rich in providing surfaces with zero friction. Such solubles can be soap bark, creamy lotions, butter and grease (for hair).
First, ice your knuckle for 5 minutes (to prevent blood flow and slightly making the knuckle shrink + you will not feel pain).
Secondly, apply your soluble to your knuckle. Put a quality amount, a rich amount.
Thirdly, point your hand to the ground (the one with your ring finger, gravity will be your friend)
Lastly, with your fingers pointing down and your solubles in tact, use the a ok sign for your grip onto the ring, grip it will and twist the ring to its right.

@john65pennington I think your M.D. made it so that he pulled the ring using the string over the knuckle bump at its highest point (the top). Once it got over, the skin underneath was easily “squished” and it became a success.

I don’t mean this in a know it all tone :/ I call it scientific speculation :D

@smilingheart1 Haha, why would the oldies but goodies want to give noobies more points :P

@whitetigress, I love to lurve it up!!!

@Mariah, @john65pennington, @ANef_is_Enuf @Tropical_Willie @Ponderer983 @filmfann. @whitetigress – thanks a million for your input. Sooner or later, there WILL be a victory and I will surely declare it.
@wundayatta, I’ve already been spitting! – now I just have to wait for the swelling to go down so I can try another ploy, yours is well used to twist insistence, apparently.
@Adirondackwannabe, If worst comes to worst, out comes the Prep. H.

Tell her “God yes, those jeans make you look fat.”

I can guarantee ring removal within 5 seconds.

Windex. I had a few rings that I couldn’t remove with soap or butter/oil, but Windex did the trick.

I’m not sure about a ring that much smaller than your normal ring size but what’s worked for me is lotion and then holding my hand higher than my heart for several minutes.

The only sure fire way is with one of these.

I know it isn’t what you want to hear, but it is what it is.

Ah, I see that I was too quick with a joke (even though it would have been damned effective if you were trying to remove a wife’s ring), and did not read the details.

I would talk to a jeweler, so that you can get the reassurance that you need: if the ring is cut for removal and then re-sized to fit your larger finger (and if the work is done by a competent jeweler) then you’ll never even be able to tell that it was done when the work is finished. It’s really the best thing that you can do for your finger.

Reduce salt intake, fast for one day, ice the hand and arm above your heart, lay down and apply KY Jelly. Good luck.

Butter
Windex
Shampoo
Vaseline
Vick’s Vapor Rub

There’s another string trick. You wrap the finger by coiling many turns of a long string around the finger, starting at the fingertip and slowly working toward the hand. In theory this forces some blood & other tissue fluid out of the finger to make it temporarily skinnier.

I never actually tried this method, however, so I don’t know if it works. I’d still use lubricant on the skin under the ring & around the knuckle. And it might help to soak in cold water as well, as suggested by @Mariah – the finger won’t plump up again as quickly if it’s cold.

Sucking on the finger, as suggested earlier (aka “application of negative pressure”) in theory would increase the finger’s volume, making things worse. Gag me with a spoon finger.

Did you get the ring off?