I hate getting the hiccups

its annoying as hell........

the only way I can get rid of them is to hold my breath for about 15 minutes

 

hiccups suck for real...fifteen minutes...lmao; isn't that certain death?

 

I was exaggerating a bit.......... as if you couldnt tell.

 

do you have a straw handy?

 

if i get them once.. i will have them at least 3 more times before bed... ugh!!


i take a deep breath in.. hold it for the count of 10 then swallow.. usually works

 

lol...I could...just kidding around with ya...

 

It is scientifcally proven that after the first thirty seconds, the hiccups are purely mental. For the first thirty seconds it may be caused by a physical mishap, however after that you have the hiccups because you believe you have the hiccups. There have been cases of people having the hiccups for years at a time. In fact when I worked at the dialysis clinic I knew a man that was prescribed thorizine because he had chronic hiccups. Crazy shit.

 

I can cure any person's hiccups in 90 seconds. You just have to equalize the pressure in your chest. A straw helps the process if you want to listen

 

why does that scare me? what are you doing with that knife? why you looking at me like that? STOP IT! NO! STOP! NOOO!!

 

The straw has nothing to do with it. That is yet another trick that occupies your mind long enough for you to stop thinking about the fact that you are hiccuping. Just like scaring it out of somebody, all you have to do is take their mind to another place long enough for it not to be an issue.

 

i just suck in as much air as i can and hold it for as long as possible, sorts me out right away.

 

perhaps scientifically you are right

but after years of bartending, I have cured thousands of cases of hiccups and this is my method.

The most effective method is to instruct the person who has hiccups to make 'guns' with both hands. Index fingers pointing foward, thumbs up. Take your index fingers and plug your nose. Take your thumbs and plug your ears. When you do so, you will feel like you are under water. Then drink water slowly through a straw and the hiccups will go away. The straw helps because without one you have to lift the glass to your mouth with your pinky, ring and middle fingers which is rather awkward.

This works 99% of the time and anyone can do it at home. The only other cure I know from bartedning is to bite into a lemmon wedge that is saturated with bitters. That also does the trick 99% of the time, but most people don't have bitters and fresh lemons at their disposal.

 

I've heard of eating a spoon full of peanut butter covered in sugar, doing the trick you have just mentioned, startling somebody, holding your breath while counting to ten, and holding your breath while thinking about doing the alphabet backwards. It all boils down to taking your mind away from the fact that you have the hiccups. Getting a prescription to Thorizine, however, sounds like the best option to me. Ever seen the thorizine shuffle?

 

Oohh, this is me all the way, too. Drives me nuts. I know as soon as I get the hiccups, it'll happen anywhere from 2-4 more times that day. Holding my breath never works. Neither does trying to relax and calm my breathing, drinking water, holding my breath while drinking water... sometimes eating a teaspoon of sugar will, oddly enough. Or, I just have to wait them out... which could be 5-20 minutes of lung-jerking fun.

 

Care to share your great sense of control with the rest of us?

 

Considering it is a physical abnormality for the first thirty seconds or so I find it hard to believe that you will yourself into never having hiccups.

 

the only way i can get rid of my own hiccups is just to think about them...

i try and say exactly when im going to hiccup... concentrate real hard.. and then what do you know when im trying to think when its coming it stops coming

 

So if I decide I don't like lung cancer, emphazima, brain tumors and stuffy nasals I wont get them? Because I definately smoke and inhale several menthol cigars a day.... and that would be a big help later in life.

 

See now you're leading me up to altering my lifestyle. Did you alter your lifestyle to avoid the hiccups? If so it wasn't a matter of will. If not then your method should work on my future lung cancer without any alteration of my personal decisions.

 

More like willpower. It takes willpower to quit smoking or doing drugs etcetera; on the contrary you said you "willed away your hiccups". Therefore I'd like to know how to will away lung cancer when the time comes oh prevelant one.