To be so pathetic

[StealthPolarBear]

I have the hiccups. I really suffer with them, can barely catch my breath between them. End up feeling sick and weak.
This is pathetic. They are hiccups.
Someone else tell me you're equally pathetic please!!

I hate hiccups so much. I once heard about a woman who had them for decades, and every time I get them I get scared it's going to happen to me.

YANBU, hiccups suck.

Thanks! That hadn't worried me before...

They make me ill too if that helps. I'm not able to burp so hiccups just seem to trap air painfully that can't get back out again unless I stick my fingers down my throat. Sick/retching makes me feel worse so it's a no win situation really.

I've left early on a LOT of nights out due to hiccups

My never fail cure for hiccups is get someone to block your ears by pushing the 'flappy bits' (forward helix?) in with their fingers, then hold your nose and gulp a huge glass of water - properly gulp it so you can hear the gulps and it feels like your ears will pop. You might feel like you are going to drown but keep gulping until you can't do it anymore. I usually try to manage a whole 500ml bottle of water. I usually hiccup once after I've done it then it just stops!!!! Hope it works for you.

Sorry. I'm glad to not be alone now though.

It is possible that was a dream. Don't Google it, let's assume I made it up.

I ha e no one to hold my flappy bits :)
Eating a pickled onion usually helps me but we were put of them... I found a jar at the back of the cupboard and had a couple then I noticed the mould... So now I feel sick because of that too

:o

Bite a wedge of lemon!! A barmaid showed me in a pub once, works every time for me now.

Lean forward and drink from the back of a glass of water (your head will be upside down)
Take at least 5 mouthfuls (breathe through your nose)
Never fails!

It can be done with a bottle if you need to.

Why is there never anyone around to hold your flappy bits when you need them? I have managed to do it on my own by sticking my thumbs in my ears and squeezing my nose with my pinky fingers and then holding the neck of the bottle between my teeth and ripping my head back but it's tricky. Still works though.

Not hiccups OP, you have a diagnosis of Acute Idiopathic Diaphragmatic Spasms

Oh no,! Will I die?

Anyway the idiotic spasms seem to have subsided so Im going to try to sleep. Thanks for all the suggestions, every single one (including the exploding head one) was better than eating mouldy pickled onions... Bleurgh

This always happens to me! Something to so with the medications I take apparently!

Hiccups is just your diaphragm getting out of sync. If I ever get the hiccups I just do some slow, deep breathing - breathe in for a count of five, hold the breath for a count of five, breathe out slowly for a count of five. If a hiccup occurs, just try to keep in the rhythm and I have never had to repeat the cycle more than about 3/4 times before the hiccups have stopped.

A lot of the "cures" for hiccups are basically just different ways to get you to effectively stop breathing - usually by drinking water - for long enough for your diaphragm to get back into sync before you take your next breath.

Teaspoon of vinegar. Works every time 😊

You need to shock your vagus nerve. Ice cold water, deprivation of oxygen (i.e. holding your breath), repeated gulping.

People can have chronic hiccups if they have damaged their vagus nerve. How long do your bouts last?