I don’t have anything great to say about this matter, but I have the hiccups… Holy fuck the hiccups!
Eat a tablespoon of peanut butter. It works.
Every time.
Breathe shallow but slow, relax. Hickup is a cramp in the diaphragm, mostly caused through stress.
I can confirm this works. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve stopped hiccups doing this. Best if it’s done right away when the episode starts.
As someone who gets the hiccups 10-20x a day every day for the last 16 years, fuck hiccups
How do you endure? I don’t know if I could do that…
You must be exceedingly strong with a fortitude to rival mountains.
It is what it is. I have permanent nerve damage and randomly get bouts of hiccups throughout the day. Sometimes it will be just 2 or 3, sometimes it lasts for a long time. It’s annoying to say the least. But otherwise harmless. They’re the least of my issues so I try to pay them no mind, but they can of course be obtrusive.
Hiccups suck so bad, people will try all manner of crazy witchcraft to get rid of them.
Plug your ears and drink water.
Or drink water upside down.
These are the treatments that seem to work the best
Hold your breath count to 10 in your head if you hiccup start again until you get to 10
Hiccups are involuntary muscle spasms. Applying heat can help stop muscle spasms no matter where they’re occuring. Drinking large gulps of very warm water (as warm as possible) has stopped hiccups for me 100% of the time.
Oh wow!
A friend of mine told a story about his brother who had a major surgery in his abdomen and HAD to control his chronic hiccups while in recovery or risk opening his wounds or worse. His doctors helped. I don’t even remember all the remedies he mentioned because there were several and the point was that each person can be different so you have to figure out what works for you.
Omfg… chronic hiccups…
Not nonstop or anything - he just got them often.
I have found a method that works 100% of the time for me. It sounds silly but bear with me. After the hiccup starts, I tell myself “hiccups arent real” or some equivalent phrase, in my inner voice, as convincingly as possible. Like I actually believe it. It stops immediately, before the second hiccup.
I am spreading this method among friends and family, I would say around a third of then report successes, but Im pretty sure not all of them have tried it seriously and some brush it off as bs.
“Its the hiccup illuminati”
Ok next time i have them i will do that.
Please try and report back, Im always curious if it works for others.
My remedy was almost always a teaspoon of mustard.
I just breathe real slow for like 2 mins and by the time I start breathing manually, it’s gone. Nothing painful, nothing required.
Holding my breath works for me, or maybe it just passes the time. Usually goes away in about 2 full breaths.
Doing a whip it cures hiccups
Yeah. Oxygen deprivation releases the reflex, but you have to hold your breath, so long that it hurts.
There have actually been studies why that is.
Why is that?
Hiccups are actually caused by a microorganism called “hickey” getting into your lungs. When you hold your breath, you flood the organism with carbon dioxide, which kills enough of it that your immune system can handle the rest easily. If you want to read up more about it, Google search “how to remove chest hickeys”
Thanks I will teach this to my kids too
Drinking from the far side of a glass has never not stopped my hiccups
Drinking from the far side of the glass has always stopped my hiccups.
I don’t understand what that means. How do you drink from the far side of a glass?
You lean over top of the glass, and use your lower lip to control the flow, and swallow in this position
My dog having the hiccups is the cutest thing ever. But everything he does is cute. Burping is cute too.
BOO!
Still got the hiccups?
Ahh!
Yes but I have a fear boner too.
