Next time you get hiccups.....

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.... wait for the next one. Really think about it and wait.
Result, hiccup cure :) No kidding.
Thinking about the indigestion post got me thinking about this.
Sorry for being a bit random, like to hear if this works for you,
Gx

― George C, Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I wished this worked for ejac nevermind

― Aaron A, Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

drink a pint of water while holding your nose. i think.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget to do it upside down, too.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

With a teaspoon full of sugar in it.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

chugging water while plugging your ears works every single time. the more water you drink beyond the point where you don't think you can drink any more, the better.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

And hold your breath and get someone to drop ice cubes down your back and turn around 3 times (not widdershins!) and stare at a fixed spot and drink milk.

The worst thing about having hiccups is that everyone around you offers a 'remedy'

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

and tie a cold spoon on a bit of string and dangle it down your back

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

While jumping off a cliff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Too bad hearing a multitude of hiccup cures doesn't cure the hiccups.

My manager once had the hiccups for three days & nothing worked to stop them. He got worried about it eventually & called the nurse hotline. They told him if it kept up for much longer he should go to the emergency room because it could be a sign of a fatal heart problem The scare=instant cure.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Um. Inhale until top & bottom lungs are fully expanded (ie chest AND stomach)... and hold breath until you've gone for several intervals w/o hiccuping. Then exhale VERY SLOWLY from the top of lungs, supporting from the bottom as lungs empty. Tighten back & ribcage and hold lungs empty for a couple of seconds...then fill them up again VERY SLOWLY and with firm muscle control...think of the air as water trickling in, or sand spilling into a bag. Repeat slow, controlled breathing as needed, pausing and re-tightening at "lungs full" and "lungs empty" positions.

Sorry it doens't have the appeal of water upside-down and spoonsful of sugar. It's just boring old science!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Walk past a policeman.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

the waiting this does work. mind vs matter n' all. Laurel's also works, a blend of the two.

but mostly i wanted to say:
"next time you get hiccups..."
- don't come whining to me.
- think about what got you in this situation to begin with.
- you are such a drunk, my friend.
- etc.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Drinking cream soda upside down through an uncle's underpants is the only cure.

― andy --, Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

You know, the only thing that does actually work for me is holding my breath at the bottom of a breath. I mean, not breathing in. Just letting the diaphragm do nothing for a few seconds.
xpost to laurel

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

They told him if it kept up for much longer he should go to the emergency room because it could be a sign of a fatal heart problem The scare=instant cure.

great, well that's that one fucked if they try it on me.

"oh noes you might die!"

"aye, right. i read on ILX tha ..." [clutches chest, goes blue, does amusing tongue-out-of-corner-of-mouth thing etc]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Next time you get hiccups.....
Keep them to yourself, they’re annoying.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

A great way to work out your abs! Hiccups will be the next Atkins diet!

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

The waiting doesn't work, for me at least. My sister used to try this on me when I had them. "Go on - hiccup! I need to hear what sort they are."

I hiccuped.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

TOP AND BOTTOM LUNGS!!!!

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 2 March 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel is korreckt of course (tho I dont know about these two sets of lungs heh). Its all about the diaphragm, because that's what is is spasm when you hiccup. Controlled deep breathing will usually stop the hiccups, tho it can take a little while. Breathing like a singer (air right down into the bottom lungs...er bottom of the lungs) is the way to go.

Which brings me to ask - why is it one gets hiccups when drunk? I always thought it was a cliche but it happens to me often. WTF causes that?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

The only time I get hiccups is when I eat jalapeños.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

My wife's favoured method is to chug down a glass of water in which you've just extinguished a match - taking care not to swallow the match, obv. It's worked for me about 7 times out of 10. Twice I continued to hiccup. On the other occasion I swallowed the match, which reignited in my belly. Golden times.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 2 March 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

which reignited in my belly.

Wow, Mike. You drunk bastard.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 March 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

How did you know it reignited?

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 3 March 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

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