…and I have the …fucking…hiccups. It hurts. And it won’t go away.
Breathed into a fucking bag for 10 breaths. Still got hiccups. My chest hurts bad.
Fuck. Ouch.
Okay, first off try to relax. Then take a huge breath, literally fill your lungs as hard as you possibly can, and then hold it while simultaneously pooching out your diaphragm as hard as your belly muscles can (like when you’re a little kid pretending to be fat or pregnant, push the diaphragm out hard) while pressing your hand (one or both, fingertips first) into your diaphragm, pressing hard up under your ribcage. Hold this for as long as you can, trying to concentrate on breaking the spasm in your diaphragm and replacing it with relaxation.
Hard to describe, but it works really well–it’s like giving yourself a slo-mo Heimlich maneuver.
Brown Eyed Girl, good to be in a thread with you again.
Try this: Take a teaspoon of sugar and put it on your tongue. Do nothing else. Don’t talk, don’t swallow any more than necessary. Don’t lick it or flick it in your mouth. For some reason, when it dissolves, your hiccups will be gone.
SSG Schwartz
Holy shit! I think that worked.
Ok, yeah. I think I’m good now. That’s fucking amazing, SmartAleq!
Thank god for the Pit, huh?
SSG Schwartz, I’ve missed you. You are all the sugar I need.
Cool! I have a hard time explaining that one in person, I’m amazed you picked up on it from a written description! Whew! :eek:
I can also squash headaches away, but that actually does require a laying on of hands… 
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I’m glad the forced breathing trick worked for you, but I’m with SSG Schwartz…sugar is the most effective hiccough cure there is.
Try that the next time you get 'em. Sometimes if they’re really bad it takes two teaspoons of sugar. I usually follow them with a big glass of water, though.
When I have the hicups, what always works for me is using soda-pop. Letting out a huge belch (to be perfectly blunt) for some reason just helps. For some, though, it only makes it worse.
snerk 
I really hate hiccups–I read about some poor bastard who had them for like thirty years and I was just horrified at the very idea. I mean, really, how miserable would THAT be? I’m not sure why that “hold breath and push in” method works but my best guess is that you’re distracting your brain to the point where it can’t hold on to the hiccup pattern any more. This Scientific American article is weirdly interesting, especially the bit where the writer speculates that hiccups are a leftover evolutionary brain pattern from tadpoles. Isn’t it weird that everybody knows what hiccups are but nobody knows what causes them or what they’re FOR?
Bodies are complicated…
The sugar thing has worked for me in the past. Another one that has worked is trying to touch your elbows behind your back while at the same time taking a *very *deep breath. (I especially like when women use this technique.)
Drinking out of the wrong side of the cup. I dunno why, but this works for me.
I never have headaches, and this is the first time I’ve regretted it.
Came here to post this same thing. I usually try holding my breath, and if that doesn’t work then the above works every time. For anyone who hasn’t done this, you take a glass of water, hold it in front of you like you are about to drink from it, then put your lips on the side of the cup that is farthest from you and take a drink (which requires bending forward (i.e., bowing) just a bit).
Ok, I’ll try the sugar thing next time. Is raw sugar ok? I don’t have any refined sugar.
It was nice to be able to go to bed breathing normally. I can’t imagine suffering from hiccups for 30 years. Can you imagine the moment that guy realized they were finally gone? Or did he die with the hiccups? Poor guy.
Hiccups suck.
I live with a monster.
I never get the hiccups.
Go to the store and pick up a bottle of bitters and a lime. Squeeze the lime into a shot glass, soak the squeezed lime in bitters, bite into the lime and then chase that with the remaining liquid in the shot glass.
Works every time.
Keep drinking.
Yeesh, I’d rather have the hiccups.
I stroke my neck downward, as I read once somewhere slightly repuatalbe (Discover magazine?). Since hiccups are reversed peristalsis, the stroking attempts to signal the brain as to the “right” way it should go.