And SON OF A FUCKING BITCH!
I have them again NOW. This is the SECOND time I’ve had the fuckers today! And it’s only 9:20 AM.
I swear to God, I’m just going to stop breathing.
E.
By the time you retire, there will not be enough money in Social Security for you to draw on.
[sub](If NeoFishBoy’s “BWAHHH!!” didn’t scare you, I was hoping this would).[/sub]
I always have intermittent success with any hiccup cure; for a little while the “drink-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-glass” trick will work, then nothing. So then I’ll try the “spoonful-of-sugar” technique til that fails me, followed by the “teaspoon-of-Angostura-Bitters” solution, and finally the “count-to-10-backwards-while-thinking-of-zebras” method (which actually has worked for me). I wonder if my hiccups are building up an immunity?
Yet another cure (one that works for me):
Take two ice cubes and rub them for about 30 seconds or so on your throat (on either side of where your adam’s apple would be if you were a man).
Well, since everybody else is popping in here with their hiccup cures, I might as well add mine, which has never failed for me. I told my GF about it, and she was extremely skeptical about it, but it worked for her too. Here’s what you do:
Get a tall glass and fill it with water. Now get a long, straight object, like a butter knife, and put it in the glass of water. Put your lips to the glass, on the side you’d normally drink from, and tilt the glass towards your face until the knife handle is pressed firmly against your forehead (you may have to lean forward a little at first). Now drink the whole glass of water with the knife handle pressed to your forehead. You can pause for breath, but don’t lower the glass at any time, and try to drink it taking as few breaths as possible.
This sounds really weird, I know; it’s mostly a visual thing, so it’s hard to describe, but I hope you get the idea. A guy I knew in college had come up with this, and I thought it was weird then, but it’s always worked. I think you’re concentrating so hard on keeping that knife handle against your forehead, plus drinking and not breathing much, that your diaphragm just sort of “forgets” to spasm.
Eh. Works for me. 