There’s an evil part of me, a deep, dark, deranged demon inside me, that hopes the mustard packets keep working, but that it takes more and more each time.
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get warm and eat a little snack
Dying. Works every time first time and they never come back.
Mouthful of water, then fingers in both ears and swallow.
For me I get a >90% success rate
Boo!
Did it worked?
A lot of times hiccups are caused by your brain thinking that it needs more oxygen. So breathe deeply. Sometimes it works.
Just focus on your breathing, take conscious control over your diaphragm, that'll stop it from spasming. Works everytime.
It's all placebo. Whatever you truly believe will cure them cures them. Once you figure this out you can just sort of meditate them away.
I’ve got one that’s not placebo: Doing a whip it. One big ol’ hit of nitrous WILL CURE THEM.
Yeah, I'll bet most sedatives probably work.
Pro tip, if you are around someone with hiccups and you want to help them out, wait for their next hiccup, then immediately after offer them $10 (or anything you can provide as incentive) if they can hiccup one more time. Something about wanting it makes it stop.
Unfortunately, this probably won't work on you anymore once you've read this, so sorry about that. And it only works on the unknowing a few times before they become immune, but it's a neat trick that they will appreciate it when it works!
I get terrible hiccups. Painful terrible. Have since i was a kid. And they make a weirder sound than usual, if I'm in public people always whip their heads around to look at me. Anyway, pickles. When I'm hiccuping nothing has ever worked but then, once I started making my own pickles, I can now just eat a single pickle and be good. They'll be gone. I'm just glad I like pickles now.
When someone else has the hiccups, cup your hands together (like you're about to pour water in them), hold them in front of them and excitedly tell them repeatedly (in a loud-ish, hurried voice like you're about to miss out on the chance of a lifetime):
" Quick! Hiccup in my hands! Hurry up! Do it! Hiccup in my hands!"
Gotta do it quickly and unexpectedly enough to surprise them. They'll either be so surprised that they forget the hiccup, or they will actually try to do it but be so focused on it that they won't be able to.
It's got a pretty high success rate for when I've tried it.
I usually just breathe in as much as I can and hold my breath until I need another gasp of air. It usually goes away after two or three times.
Lying on your back and pressing your knees to your chest is another way to get them to stop that works for me.
The holding your breath thing works. You inhale as much as you can, which stretches your diaphragm out, and hold it as long as you can, even through the next few hiccups. Works like a charm.
Not sure if anyone has said this, but hold your breath and swallow three times. The last one can be a little tough, but it has worked for me I'd say 90% of the time.
I actually learned this from an oncology nurse whose patients sometimes get chronic hiccups from certain chemo; the thing to do is have someone pull down on your earlobes while slightly cupping your ears forward,, and then you drink water slowly while they hold your earlobes. Works every time. I taught this to a friend who had trouble with hiccups after surgery and she says it saved her life.
Quick sips of water works for me.
Another technique that works only once when someone else is having a hiccup is to offer them a glass of water with a knife inside. The moment they see it, hiccup is gone.
That second one sounds fun. We used to do a lemon/lime slice dunked in sugar at a bar I went to years ago. The sweet/sour difference used to confuse the brain for just long enough for most people it seemed
Nothing. Just wait, it’ll go away by itself eventually. Everything else is just a placebo.
Not nitrous! That will absolutely fix them. But not everyone is into doing nitrous.
It's been like 3 days. Waiting it out doesn't help me sleep at all.
Ok that’s not normal hiccups anymore. You should see a doctor.
Nah, it's just been that they would randomly come and go. They're gone now, I don't think they'll start back anytime soon thankfully.
The only trick that worked for me was this.
Had been hiccuping for probably 5 minutes. Nothing working. Someone came up to me and just said “hiccup for me now” just waited for that hiccup. Kept asking for me to hiccup for maybe 30 seconds to a minute. Gone. No more hiccups.
He's a witch!
My wife believes that the secret to resolving hiccups is to "breathe as much air into your lungs as possible, squeezing your chest against your knees while crouching and keeping you breathe held; then lastly, standing up after 30 seconds."
She learned this from her Dad who has a mischievous side. To me, when she first described it, sounded like the steps someone would take to make themselves pass out unconscious. I guess it depends how fast you stand up. Is Lemmy able to settle this one for us?
I find that a sudden, deep diaphragmatic gasp and holding it for 20-30 seconds does it for me. But it needs to be harsh, otherwise it doesn’t work.
For me, it reliably works to drink a big glass of water. But probably just a me thing...
Tablespoon of pickle juice. You're then going to have the urge to eat a pickle. Don't do it - they'll come back.
A shot of vinegar or lemon juice will also do it in my experience
100 yard sprint always did it for me
Say this out loud:
"I am not a fish."
Repeat as necessary.
This really made my day. I'm a big fan of the ontogeny-filogeny thingy despite it often ends up disproved (e.g. recapitulation).
The other interesting theory, and the one I knew, was as a mechanism to empty air from the stomach, aiding milk consumption in mammals.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504071/
I preferred yours.
I just say it in my head to myself. It has had a near 100% success rate for the past year. I don't understand it, yet it works!
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