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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BOO!
Still got the hiccups?
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?
It sounds (and presumably looks) stupid but this is the only method that actually works for me.
Ever get hiccups together with acid reflux? That's an extra special level of hell.
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.
Breathe shallow but slow, relax. Hickup is a cramp in the diaphragm, mostly caused through stress.
Gargling and/or drinking upside down have always worked for me. Hiccups suck
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.
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
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..
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.
Hiccups suck so bad, people will try all manner of crazy witchcraft to get rid of them.
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.
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.
My dog having the hiccups is the cutest thing ever. But everything he does is cute. Burping is cute too.
Eat a tablespoon of peanut butter. It works.
Hold your breath count to 10 in your head if you hiccup start again until you get to 10
Plug your ears and drink water.
Or drink water upside down.
These are the treatments that seem to work the best
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.
I just breathe real slow for like 2 mins and by the time I start breathing manually, it's gone. Nothing painful, nothing required.
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.
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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