I’ve got an embarassing case of hiccups! Loud and frequent. Folks are peering over the cube walls to see where it’s coming from. Suggestions?
Yes I do! I cured my old roommates sister over the phone with this one. Take one glass of water, and (here is the tricky bit if you are alone) hold your nose and ears shut, drink the water, not all of it just drink till you want to stop. I have a very high cure rate on this one, but if you have that rare breed of hiccups that stop at nothing then I feel sorry for you. let me know how it works out
This usually works for me:
Drink ten gulps of water without breathing at all in between gulps. It’s harder than you might think to swallow ten times without breathing. Well, it’s not hard. But you notice it.
Good luck.
Boo!
Well…I tried.
I was told it’s all about relaxing your diaphragm.
Hold your breath, clasp your hands behind your head, and stretch your elbows as far back as you can. Hold for as long as you can hold your breath.
Works for me everytime.
Spouse gets 'em frequently. We’ve tried holding breath, drinking from wrong side of glass, scaring, etc. Turns out the ONLY thing that works for him is eating a spoonful of granulated sugar. I have no idea WHY it works, but it always does. I find holding my breath and relaxing seems to work for me.
Just a few suggestions.
If you have any peanut butter handy, eat a marble-sized glob of it and let it dissolve completely in your mouth. Makes you very thirsty afterward, but it works.
I get hiccups really bad, and if I don’t get rid of them right away, they stay for hours. I have tried every cure I’ve heard of. These ones seem to work for me:
(my favorite - almost always works) Drink from a glass or a water fountain 10 sips, or as many as you can, without taking a breath in between. Drink the water very slurpily - get lots of air in there. A moment after you finish drinking - you naturally belch out all that air. After the belch - no more hiccups. Sometimes I have to do it twice. If a hiccup comes during the drinking, the cure won’t work. You must start over.
A spoonful of granulated sugar or honey sometimes works.
Breathing in a paper bag sometimes works.
Holding your breath as long as you can and then longer sometimes works.
A really good scare always works, but that has only happened twice in my life. Must be totally unexpected, must startle me so much that I scream out loud. But 100% success rate. As an added bonus, when it works it is so funny that everyone gets a good laugh.
This is what works for me. Take a butter knife, press the side of the blade (NOT the sharp part, the large flat area) flat against your left temple with some pressure. Hold your breath for a few seconds. Like I said, it works for me.
This one works all the time for me… but I’m also able to instantly get songs taht are stuck in my head out… so this may not be for everyone…
Hold your breath intill the hicup either force you to open your mouth or… everything start to turn red (other colors may happen… so breath when 1st color shade sets in)
Now there are 2 effects… no morw hiccups… or pass out… since your at work beingpassed out won’t mind so much… will it? And if you pass out… wheather you have hiccups or not you don’t care because you’re getting the best sleep you ever got… and don’t owrry about having hiccups when you wake up… just be sure you’re close to those tylonals… because your headache scores about a 1.5 on the ricter scale
I get them a lot too. What always works for me is to stand up, take a drink of something (water is best) and then bend over at the waist, put my head between my knees and swallow.
Something about how hard it is to swallow upside down makes the hiccups go away.
Blow jobs. And you have to swallow.
Whenever I get the hiccups, my SO says “Uh Oh!” with a big grin, because he knows it works. I have a good friend that agrees with me on this one, too.
Guess it’s not the best remedy if you’re a straight male, though, huh?