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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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
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
Doing a whip it cures hiccups
BOO!
Still got the hiccups?
Yes but I have a fear boner too.
Ahh!
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
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.
Holy fuck I cant imagine.
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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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.
Gargling and/or drinking upside down have always worked for me. Hiccups suck
My partner and I discovered that whip its are a 100% sure cure
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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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.
Ok next time i have them i will do that.
Please try and report back, Im always curious if it works for others.
"Its the hiccup illuminati"
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'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.
Oh wow!
As someone who gets the hiccups 10-20x a day every day for the last 16 years, fuck hiccups
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My dog having the hiccups is the cutest thing ever. But everything he does is cute. Burping is cute too.
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.
Never worked for me, which explains your confusion.
Eat a tablespoon of peanut butter. It works.
Every time.
Spoonful of vinegar does the trick
Hold your breath count to 10 in your head if you hiccup start again until you get to 10
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.
Try a spoonful of sugar
Plug your ears and drink water.
Or drink water upside down.
These are the treatments that seem to work the best
I just breathe real slow for like 2 mins and by the time I start breathing manually, it's gone. Nothing painful, nothing required.
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!!
water stops mine, but some people can have it pathologically.
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