I don’t have anything great to say about this matter, but I have the hiccups.. Holy fuck the hiccups!

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[–] 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Holding my breath works for me, or maybe it just passes the time. Usually goes away in about 2 full breaths.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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    One of the definitive conditions for ceasing hiccups is CO2 retention in the body, the target of which is around 60 mmHg of CO2 in venous blood. The fight-or-flight response induced by acute hypercapnia can effectively suppress hiccups because their original nature is highly likely to be aberrations in the swallowing reflex, which is associated with the parasympathetic nervous system.

    https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(20)31301-5/fulltext

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    BOO!

    Still got the hiccups?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Drinking from the far side of a glass has never not stopped my hiccups

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ever get hiccups together with acid reflux? That's an extra special level of hell.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My wife gets bad hiccups sometimes. I meanwhile can just control my diaphragm and stop hiccuping on command. She doesn't seem to find that very fair.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Breathe shallow but slow, relax. Hickup is a cramp in the diaphragm, mostly caused through stress.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Gargling and/or drinking upside down have always worked for me. Hiccups suck

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    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 them report successes, but Im pretty sure not all of them have tried it seriously and some brush it off as bs.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You can't really do it to yourself, but I've had really good luck ending other people's hiccups by offering them $5 if they hiccup again

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I'm curious what the doctors remedies for hiccups were, that didn't involve inflating his abdomen. My go-to trick for curing hiccups is taking in a deep breath as deep as physically possible, then swallowing as many times as I can while holding my breath. But that wouldn't be great during abdominal rest because taking in a deep breath causes the belly to expand.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Hiccups suck so bad, people will try all manner of crazy witchcraft to get rid of them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    As someone who gets the hiccups 10-20x a day every day for the last 16 years, fuck hiccups

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    How do you endure? I don't know if I could do that...

    You must be exceedingly strong with a fortitude to rival mountains.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    My dog having the hiccups is the cutest thing ever. But everything he does is cute. Burping is cute too.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Eat a tablespoon of peanut butter. It works.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Hold your breath count to 10 in your head if you hiccup start again until you get to 10

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Spoonful of vinegar does the trick

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Plug your ears and drink water.

    Or drink water upside down.

    These are the treatments that seem to work the best

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    So, I'm glad I'm not the only one...

    I despise the hiccups, and do nothing else until I can get rid of them.

    Holding my breath and drinking while continuing to hold my breath works pretty well for me if I can't straight up will them away!

    My family thinks it's funny how much I hate them.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    My remedy was almost always a teaspoon of mustard.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I just breathe real slow for like 2 mins and by the time I start breathing manually, it's gone. Nothing painful, nothing required.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I've never understood why people tolerate the hiccups. You just keep holding your breath. If you hiccup while holding your breath you take another breath and start again until it's gone. I've never had the hiccups for more than a minute.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    water stops mine, but some people can have it pathologically.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Im able to stop hiccups like when i get them i can just turn them off but i dont wanna be left out so FUCK HICCUPS!!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Giant scoop of peanut butter works EVERY. TIME.

    For me, at least. YMMV.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Remind yourself you are not a fish and it goes away.

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