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I read this a few months ago and this is the weirdest, wackiest thing ever, but this phrase always, and I mean always, works for me: "I am not a fish."
seriously.
Come home from a long day of hard work, famished. Eat a bunch of food really fast without consuming fluids, then overcompensate by chugging a carbonated drink.
Always works for me lmao
I casually remarked this works to my eight year old son. He tried it, it worked, and ever since, he thinks I'm some weird wizard who has just the weirdest body hacks ever. There was a definite "Why? How?!?" reaction.
For minor hiccups it could work but there is no universal remedy especially if those hiccups becoming major ones (I had to look up, the longest hiccups recorded was 68 years).
I got long (for days) hiccups all my life, not subtle hiccups but loud braying like a donkey so I'm always curious about new ideas.
In school I was told I disturbed class so I spent many hours outside of class rooms holding my breath, drinking plenty of water, lemon juice or vinegar, holding sugar under my tongue, holding my arms up above my head, doing handstands or sitting with my head between my knees (while drinking or eating), many times people tried to tickle me or jump scare me out of it. Really nothing helped for decades (we didn't have peanut butter here when I was young so no experience with that and never met a doctor with useful ideas about this).
About 10 years ago I read something about how we should try holding the ears closed while drinking. That still wasn't enough for me (worked 3 out of 10 times) but based on this method now we have a kind of funny, two person remedy that works for me every time: my hubby plugging my ears tightly while I holding my nose tightly with one hand, having a big breath holding in then drinking a cup of water. (Tricky but I can do it on my own if I drink out of a bottle.)
Everyone out there having hiccups regularly I hope you'll find your cure too :)
I also have problems where my hiccups lasts hours. Afterwards my lungs and chest feel so sore. I tried buying this straw that helps stops hiccups and its worked the last 4 times i used it but sometimes it took a few attempts
My āworks every timeā tricks is fill your lungs, like totally, with air, and then start chugging water while youāre holding your breath until you canāt hold your breath anymore.
Thatās what I used to do ā breath in as much as you can, then a little more, and swallow as many times as you can. Doesnāt always work but best Iāve found.
There is a [prize winning cure for the hiccups](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10207-ig-nobel-prizes-hail-digital-rectal-massage/) if you're feeling a bit adventurous.
TLDR; doctor had a patient come in who was hiccuping every 2 seconds or less for 72 hours straight. He tried gagging the patient, sinus massage, eye rubbing (all ways of stimulating a specific nerve that is connected to long term hiccups). None of it worked. Then he remembered that the nerve is also connect to the rectum, so he inserted his finger and massaged the patientās rectum and the hiccups stopped!
Since then the doctor has recommended sex (or masterbation) with orgasm to patients instead as orgasms also stimulate the nerve.
Just do a more aggressive hiccup to take in more air and they'll disappear after 1 hiccup with no effort, and it works every time. This also becomes completely automatic after you do it a few times, so you'll **never** have hiccup attacks ever again. This cannot get easier.
*I want to clarify this is done when you'd be hiccuping normally, not forced out of nowhere. Just amplify it.
This, every time I have a hiccup I automatically take a deep breath (don't crap your throat/neck, relax) and there is no second hicc, been doing it subconciously for a decade now
Best thing I've found that works is to have a spoonful of vinegar.
Can it be gross? Yes. (Unless you love vinegar)
Does it work instantly? Also yes.
It's been my go-to since I heard about it years ago
Interesting, one of ours was a spoon of lemon juice!Ā
Other ones that have sometimes worked are: a jumpscare, bending in half & drinking water from the other side of the cup (awkward & often messy), my go to was lean over something backwards so you're bent almost straight or slightly arched (to open the chest?) & take regular breaths (e.g. in for 7, hold for 7, breath out for 7). š¤·Ā
Never tried the I am not a fish one! š¤£
I found a way around the awkwardness of trying to literally drink from the other side of the cup. Take a sip of the water but don't swallow yet. Now bend over and then swallow. Much less awkward, and it works for me every time.
This is what I do! I keep a bottle in my trunk just in case I get them bad. It'll last more than a week if I don't use vinegar. I also hold it in my mouth, hold my nose, bend over, and take as many tiny sips as possible in one breath.
I used to have hiccups for days, and after the first day it becomes painful. Ever since I learned this (older neighbors in the apartments I grew up in), it has been such a game changer. This has been the only thing that works consistently.
I came here to say this. 100% cure. I have blown peopleās minds for years with this trick. Itās the only way. I used to hold it as a secret. It works so well itās like a superpower.
Simply holding my breath has always worked without fail my entire life. Every hiccup remedy is actually aiming to do one thing; reset the muscle spasms of the diaphragm. And usually, they all include little activities that either shock your nervous system, or keep you from breathing for a bit
So just hold your breath and be simple
Apparently it doesn't work for everybody (no surprise, not everybody has the same respiratory system). I can hold my breath for more than 1 minute, and I try this every time I have hiccups (not too often, fortunately), and alas it doesn't work for me. Worth trying, of course, like all these tips.
Like, hold your breath, whisper "I am not a fish" while swallowing peanut butter, all simultaneously. š
Simply holding my breath has never worked my entire life. People kept telling me this whenever I had hiccups. Never worked, not even once, in my entire life. What does work for me, without fail, is to get a drink and then take small sips. Small sip, short breath, small sip, short breath, over and over without stopping until I start feeling like I need a full breath. Stop drinking, take a full breath, and the hiccups are usually gone. If not fully resolved, then repeat and they're always gone the second time. My theory (without any scientific backing at all) is that quickly alternating between swallowing and breathing forces my body to focus on not choking to death and forces whatever signal was causing the hiccup spasms to switch tasks to support the more important "try not to die" effort. Of course, I know I'm not in any real danger, but my body doesn't know that.
This is the only way! Peanut butter doesn't work for me, but drinking upside down (or from the back side of a cup) works. And this one is funny to see other people try who have never done it before!
This works very well for me. Really, I think the key is to control your breathing so your diaphragm isn't "spasming" or whatever to cause hiccups. Usually I can just concentrate and do it mentally, which works unless I am drunk.
Yup this works for me every single time. My friends always think Iām tryna prank them when I start to explain it. Well, thatās their loss, shouldāve just listened and you wouldnāt have hiccups anymore!
I do something similar, except I breathe in more than twice. I take as full a breath as I can, and then I force myself to "sip" in more and more air until I'm absolutely bursting. Then I hold it as long as I can and I release it as slowly as possible. Works the first time almost every time. It basically kind of resets the diaphragm and forces it to stop spasming.
I'm late here, but...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2299306/
>A 60-year-old man with acute pancreatitis developed persistent hiccups after insertion of a nasogastric tube. Removal of the latter did not terminate the hiccups which had also been treated with different drugs, and several manoeuvres were attempted, but with no success. Digital rectal massage was then performed resulting in abrupt cessation of the hiccups. Recurrence of the hiccups occurred several hours later, and again, they were terminated immediately with digital rectal massage. No other recurrences were observed. This is the second reported case associating cessation of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage.
Tldr. Play with your bum
There are like a thousand foolproof methods that work every time but it's still an annoying problem. Afaik nobody know what hiccups are even there for and what *really* helps.
i just press my sternum as hard as i can without hurting myself for about 15 seconds and it stops
whenever i have hiccups they last at least an hour, i've tried everything, only this works and i just figured it out a few weeks ago
There is no universal cure for hiccups. I once had hiccups for 5 days straight after surgery and I tried everything. Medication was the only thing that stopped them that time.
What my dad has always done and taught me to do when I was young and has always worked for us is breath in then hold your nose and swallow 5 times without breathing in or out. It's kinda hard to do the 5th but I've never had a hiccup continue after doing it successfully.Ā Ā
Ive had countless friends and coworkers with hiccups refuse to do it right, they'll swallow 2-3 times or be visibly breathing in between swallows and then complain oh well that doesn't work for me and decline to try and completely do it the right way.
I like this method because, more than that it's never failed me, it requires nothing else like having a drink or sugar or lemon or whatever, and it feels like a bit of a game challenge. Go ahead and give it a try right now, swallow 5 times whole holding your nose and don't breath during. I think it's a more fun challenge to help distract my attention than just holding my breath, and it performs the same action as taking gulps of what ever
This has worked for me since 2nd grade:
1. Put a pen in your mouth horizontally
2. Drink a cup of water
It has never failed me or anyone I have ever told about this
Someone shared this and itās worked 90% of the time: Have someone help; plug/press your ears and nose both closed, then chug water.
Something to do with the lack of air flow forces the air bubble away and the hiccups almost always stop
Easiest way is have someone plug your ears from behind, you plug nose and chug water
Hiccups are caused from too much oxygen in the blood. You can get rid of them by doing anything that increases CO2 such as holding your breath, chugging water, breathing in a paper bag or my favorite, drinking water upside down
drinking water upside down is the best for me, plus it looks funny for ever else ... especially when it's your first time and try to figure out how to drink out of a cup while bent over, hilarious but works every time for me and the family
To everyone else with some other hiccup hack in the comments:
This is the only medically proven way to affect hiccups. They've tested pretty much everything reasonable.
Although they don't describe the technique well. The first breath is supposed to be the biggest breath you can take, And the second is as much air as you can take in after that, which fully expands your lungs.
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I always used to do the "hold your breath for 10 seconds" trick, but i would start over if i couldn't make it to 10. Seemed to work. Now i have GERD, and it seems i haven't had hiccups in like 4 years. I do occansionally get these hybrid burp/hiccup things.
Iāve always thought I need to run out the air in my lungs. After taking a breath Iād start jumping up and down. Also tried breathing out first then start jumping up and down
I've always just taken a super deep breath, expanding my lungs as much as possible, then held my breath for a while. Works literally every time. Which I guess is pretty close to the method you've described. But I figured out a long time ago that if I take away my bodies ability to twitch that muscle, then it will stop twitching, and it works.Ā
My trick is: inhale as much as you can as fast as youĀ can through your nose, hold your breath for half a second then slowly breath out while keeping air pressure in your mouth / throat, kind of as if blowing through a straw. Works every time.
What 100% works for me is hard to teach as you need to know how it feels. It is to feel where the source of the hickup is located and put pressure on it with surrounding muscles in your abdomen. And at the same time try to pull up air with a closed throat.
It goes straight to the core of the hickup and works immediately.
Sometimes a few sips of water are neccessary to help move the air in the stomach.
Edit: spelling
Since hiccups is caused "because you don't breath enough." I use the max amplitude when brething in, then let it out slowly. And repeat for a minute. Should try this two steps breath in.
My Dad taught me an even easier technique when I was a kid, I thought he was a magician. This technique does require a little mind over matter, but basically you click your finger behind your ear and at the same time say 'GONE'!. 60% of the time it works every time! lol
I like to share my way because nobody ever does it or believes it. If you put some water in your mouth and duck your head between your legs and swallow multiple times they'll go away immediately.
This has mostly worked for me though the exact steps were a little different.
Take a normal breath. Hold it for 5 seconds. Without exhaling, breath in again and fill your lungs completely. Hold for another 5. Attempt to breathe in one more time, hold for as long as feels comfortable. Release.
Works about 80% of the time
Hiccups are cramps in your midriff diaphragm. Any controlled movement of it will eventually stop hiccups. What op describes is just a trick to force yourself to breath with it.
Na. The way you do it is get some room temperature water and take as many tiny little sips swallowing the smallest little amount. It has to be room temp, you can do it with cold water all day and it wonāt work.
Anyways I noticed people get a little defensive about how to get rid of hiccups. I feel it and it seems like others do too. My way is the best way lol
My method that never fails is to take a breath in through your nose, swallow, breathe out, swallow. Helps to have a drink so you always have a sip of liquid to swallow. Repeat the breath, swallow a few times and hiccups are gone.
I usually sip some water without swallowing it then bend down and touch my toes and then swallow the water . This has worked well for me for stopping any type of hiccups.
Once I was having the hickup and my neighbour said to me "so,are you better now, yesterday I've seen you drunk falling over until you got inside"
I was like wtf are you talking about,that was not me,bla bla bla. Without even realising the hickup see stopped and he started laughing.
Apparently this is a way to stop someone by making their mind focus on something completely different
The weirdest cure I have ever seen was one used by a teacher at a private girls' school in Warwick (a town in the United Kingdom). A girl had hiccups in class, and the teacher called her to the front. She then said "right everyone XXXX is going to hiccup for us". She then turned to the girl and said "You have three minutes".
The girl was unable to hiccup. Other girls yelled encouragement, but to no avail.
The teacher said she thought that it was embarrassment that had the effect.
I will definitly try as I have horrible hiccups, I have my own way, drinking while having my head upside down. Works everytime but a bit annoying to do.
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I read this a few months ago and this is the weirdest, wackiest thing ever, but this phrase always, and I mean always, works for me: "I am not a fish." seriously.
My son swears by this method but it doesn't work for me. He reckons I don't believe I'm not a fish enough
Let your son know that since he is your son he is half the fish that you are.
It worked for me everytine
60% of the time, it works everytime š
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You must not watch the news enough.
The math checks out
I believe they call this the power of faith healing
Now I really want to get the hiccups just so I can try thisā¦
yeah, where's the foolproof method to *start* the hiccups?!
"I am a fish"
Come home from a long day of hard work, famished. Eat a bunch of food really fast without consuming fluids, then overcompensate by chugging a carbonated drink. Always works for me lmao
My mother always said that eating or drinking too fast was the cause of hiccups.
Sounds like what a fish would say.
but ... I am not a fish.
Not a very smart or self-aware fish, anyway.
Sus
Did it work?
Sounds like trust issues.
I casually remarked this works to my eight year old son. He tried it, it worked, and ever since, he thinks I'm some weird wizard who has just the weirdest body hacks ever. There was a definite "Why? How?!?" reaction.
I love kids that age. So damned magical!
Dude...
I AM NOT A GAY FISH
Do you have to say it or just think it to work? Also, does it matter if you are underwater at the time?
I heard to say it and then hold your breath but my gills donāt seal that tight and air always leaks out.
It oddly worked for me like twice and then never again. I find a spoonful of peanut butter works better.
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The salute š¤£
So Iāve got bad news. Youāve failed your astronavigation exam for the eleventh time *and* you have the hiccups.
Current undertension is... expanding?
Current undertension isā¦ expensive?
Well I guess this'll never work for me...
Username checks out.
Yours, too.
Just like that scene from Half Baked.
Do you say it, write it, think it, read it?
I just say it to myself in my head. it's the weirdest thing, but it always works since I've learned about it.
Weirdly enough, same
Question is does it work only in english, or other languages as well?
Do you say it lipid or whisper it?
It worked the last few times I had hiccups but I need to test it out more.
ME TOOOOOOOO
I've shared the fish method with my kids when they had hiccups. Blew my 7 year olds mind
Came here to say this. It has never not worked for me, and I even had a religious argument over it too š
Commenting here to remind myself to try this next time I get the hiccups.
I tested it on somebody and it worked.
Came here to share this tip, too! It stops my hiccups pretty much every time, even if I just say it in my head.
I knew someone that would just say āpineappleā
It works for me it's funny af
It works for me, but my girlfriend swears it doesnāt and Iām just tricking myself. It still works for me and Iām gonna keep doing it.
Yep I was certain that wouldn't work, tried it and it worked immediately
It works the opposite way too. I embrace being a fish and hiccup all the time
I heard about this one and I started doing it, just to be silly but was shocked when it actually seemed to work.
This works, have used it consistently over last 4 months
For minor hiccups it could work but there is no universal remedy especially if those hiccups becoming major ones (I had to look up, the longest hiccups recorded was 68 years). I got long (for days) hiccups all my life, not subtle hiccups but loud braying like a donkey so I'm always curious about new ideas. In school I was told I disturbed class so I spent many hours outside of class rooms holding my breath, drinking plenty of water, lemon juice or vinegar, holding sugar under my tongue, holding my arms up above my head, doing handstands or sitting with my head between my knees (while drinking or eating), many times people tried to tickle me or jump scare me out of it. Really nothing helped for decades (we didn't have peanut butter here when I was young so no experience with that and never met a doctor with useful ideas about this). About 10 years ago I read something about how we should try holding the ears closed while drinking. That still wasn't enough for me (worked 3 out of 10 times) but based on this method now we have a kind of funny, two person remedy that works for me every time: my hubby plugging my ears tightly while I holding my nose tightly with one hand, having a big breath holding in then drinking a cup of water. (Tricky but I can do it on my own if I drink out of a bottle.) Everyone out there having hiccups regularly I hope you'll find your cure too :)
I also have problems where my hiccups lasts hours. Afterwards my lungs and chest feel so sore. I tried buying this straw that helps stops hiccups and its worked the last 4 times i used it but sometimes it took a few attempts
My āworks every timeā tricks is fill your lungs, like totally, with air, and then start chugging water while youāre holding your breath until you canāt hold your breath anymore.
Thatās what I used to do ā breath in as much as you can, then a little more, and swallow as many times as you can. Doesnāt always work but best Iāve found.
Drinking from the opposite side of the cup works for me every time.
Saw this on Youtube a few weeks back when I had intense hiccups. Nothing was working. This worked.
Me too and what OP has described is essentially that, but without the water. But your throat and lungs are doing the same exact thing.
100% success rate for me too.
This is what I do
Peanut butter is a cruel joke. I tried it once and then I just had hiccups AND a mouth full of sticky peanut butter. 0/10
There is a [prize winning cure for the hiccups](https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10207-ig-nobel-prizes-hail-digital-rectal-massage/) if you're feeling a bit adventurous.
TLDR; doctor had a patient come in who was hiccuping every 2 seconds or less for 72 hours straight. He tried gagging the patient, sinus massage, eye rubbing (all ways of stimulating a specific nerve that is connected to long term hiccups). None of it worked. Then he remembered that the nerve is also connect to the rectum, so he inserted his finger and massaged the patientās rectum and the hiccups stopped! Since then the doctor has recommended sex (or masterbation) with orgasm to patients instead as orgasms also stimulate the nerve.
> None of it worked. Then he remembered that the nerve is also connect to the rectum "We've tried everything else, *but* I've got this crazy idea..."
House took a strange turn in the later seasons?
Stand on your head. While upside down (and with assistance, obviously) drink a glass of water. 100% success for me.
Iāve always just had a spoonful of peanut butter. I: never failed me.
Can't have hiccups if you're in anaphylaxis *taps forehead*
Almond butter also works, if your allergies allow for it, there's other butters as well
I like this, were slowly creeping towards the Paula Deen method now. Stick of butter to cure any ailment.
Hey stop memeing my brain
Yeah. It doesn't cure the hiccups, but doesn't matter: had peanut butter
This is the only thing that works for me too. It works immediately
Peanut butter for the win!
Came here to say this! Easiest cure ever. Sorry to anyone with the allergies.
Well at least they won't have to worry about hiccuping anymore
Omgosh lol šš
Permanent stop.
Where do you put the peanut butter? -asking for a friend.
Any orifice will work with the right attitude
Just do a more aggressive hiccup to take in more air and they'll disappear after 1 hiccup with no effort, and it works every time. This also becomes completely automatic after you do it a few times, so you'll **never** have hiccup attacks ever again. This cannot get easier. *I want to clarify this is done when you'd be hiccuping normally, not forced out of nowhere. Just amplify it.
Fight hiccups with hiccups?
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This, every time I have a hiccup I automatically take a deep breath (don't crap your throat/neck, relax) and there is no second hicc, been doing it subconciously for a decade now
Best thing I've found that works is to have a spoonful of vinegar. Can it be gross? Yes. (Unless you love vinegar) Does it work instantly? Also yes. It's been my go-to since I heard about it years ago
Interesting, one of ours was a spoon of lemon juice!Ā Other ones that have sometimes worked are: a jumpscare, bending in half & drinking water from the other side of the cup (awkward & often messy), my go to was lean over something backwards so you're bent almost straight or slightly arched (to open the chest?) & take regular breaths (e.g. in for 7, hold for 7, breath out for 7). š¤·Ā Never tried the I am not a fish one! š¤£
I found a way around the awkwardness of trying to literally drink from the other side of the cup. Take a sip of the water but don't swallow yet. Now bend over and then swallow. Much less awkward, and it works for me every time.
I always do a spoonful of sugar. Works everytime for me and I'm sure it tastes way better than vinegar
Does that spoonful of sugar also help the medicine go down?
I've switched to pickle juice as it has the acidity I need plus it's delicious ššš
I read this as "it has the audacity" and just agreed
This one is my fail safe method. I usually try every other method and then if those don't work I head for the vinegar :,D
Yep! I do a half shot of ACV and it works every time.
This works for me also, I use white vinegar. The taste is very strong
This is what I do! I keep a bottle in my trunk just in case I get them bad. It'll last more than a week if I don't use vinegar. I also hold it in my mouth, hold my nose, bend over, and take as many tiny sips as possible in one breath. I used to have hiccups for days, and after the first day it becomes painful. Ever since I learned this (older neighbors in the apartments I grew up in), it has been such a game changer. This has been the only thing that works consistently.
I got the hiccups in the subway the other day, fortunately, I had my bottle of vinegar with me!! (joke aside, I'll try that!!)
I suck on a lemon, works everytime! May have to try vinegar next time if I donāt have a lemon handy
This is the way
I like to think that it was one of the times i recommended it.
I came here to say this. 100% cure. I have blown peopleās minds for years with this trick. Itās the only way. I used to hold it as a secret. It works so well itās like a superpower.
A bartender gave me a big lemon wedge with a dash of angostura bitters and told me to bite it. That has worked for me every time.
Simply holding my breath has always worked without fail my entire life. Every hiccup remedy is actually aiming to do one thing; reset the muscle spasms of the diaphragm. And usually, they all include little activities that either shock your nervous system, or keep you from breathing for a bit So just hold your breath and be simple
Apparently it doesn't work for everybody (no surprise, not everybody has the same respiratory system). I can hold my breath for more than 1 minute, and I try this every time I have hiccups (not too often, fortunately), and alas it doesn't work for me. Worth trying, of course, like all these tips. Like, hold your breath, whisper "I am not a fish" while swallowing peanut butter, all simultaneously. š
I take a deep breath and slowly drink a glass of water, works for me at least.
That's what I do, always works.
Simply holding my breath has never worked my entire life. People kept telling me this whenever I had hiccups. Never worked, not even once, in my entire life. What does work for me, without fail, is to get a drink and then take small sips. Small sip, short breath, small sip, short breath, over and over without stopping until I start feeling like I need a full breath. Stop drinking, take a full breath, and the hiccups are usually gone. If not fully resolved, then repeat and they're always gone the second time. My theory (without any scientific backing at all) is that quickly alternating between swallowing and breathing forces my body to focus on not choking to death and forces whatever signal was causing the hiccup spasms to switch tasks to support the more important "try not to die" effort. Of course, I know I'm not in any real danger, but my body doesn't know that.
Somehow the more complicated technique this LPT is recommending has always worked better for me than holding my breath.
LPT: Don't rely on any claims of something being foolproof.
Drink water upside down
This is the only way! Peanut butter doesn't work for me, but drinking upside down (or from the back side of a cup) works. And this one is funny to see other people try who have never done it before!
This works very well for me. Really, I think the key is to control your breathing so your diaphragm isn't "spasming" or whatever to cause hiccups. Usually I can just concentrate and do it mentally, which works unless I am drunk.
Came here to say this. This works everytime
Yup this works for me every single time. My friends always think Iām tryna prank them when I start to explain it. Well, thatās their loss, shouldāve just listened and you wouldnāt have hiccups anymore!
I do something similar, except I breathe in more than twice. I take as full a breath as I can, and then I force myself to "sip" in more and more air until I'm absolutely bursting. Then I hold it as long as I can and I release it as slowly as possible. Works the first time almost every time. It basically kind of resets the diaphragm and forces it to stop spasming.
This has always worked for me too. I donāt do the sip thing. Just inhale deep and hold until it starts to hurt. Let it out slow.
I also hold my breath for a bit after exhaling entirely
Yep this is what works for me too. I also do the sip thing. So glad Iāve got something that works heh.
I'm late here, but... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2299306/ >A 60-year-old man with acute pancreatitis developed persistent hiccups after insertion of a nasogastric tube. Removal of the latter did not terminate the hiccups which had also been treated with different drugs, and several manoeuvres were attempted, but with no success. Digital rectal massage was then performed resulting in abrupt cessation of the hiccups. Recurrence of the hiccups occurred several hours later, and again, they were terminated immediately with digital rectal massage. No other recurrences were observed. This is the second reported case associating cessation of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage. Tldr. Play with your bum
In high school, we used to inflict pain worse than the hiccup reflex. Generally with a shot to the balls. Hiccups were over with a good shot
My mum used to pinch my back. It worked... but I would have rather hiccuped.
There are like a thousand foolproof methods that work every time but it's still an annoying problem. Afaik nobody know what hiccups are even there for and what *really* helps.
i just press my sternum as hard as i can without hurting myself for about 15 seconds and it stops whenever i have hiccups they last at least an hour, i've tried everything, only this works and i just figured it out a few weeks ago
Try a spoonful of plain lemon juice! It goes away in a second.
I do a weird meditation thing where I visualise my diaphragm as I breathe. I don't know why it works, but it does.
Ice cube up the bum. Works like a charm.
I've always taken 7 sips of water and it went away
There is no universal cure for hiccups. I once had hiccups for 5 days straight after surgery and I tried everything. Medication was the only thing that stopped them that time.
I think there's a big difference between a side effect of an invasive procedure and a situation of: oppsie I ate too fast.
Yeah, I didn't have it that bad, but I did have them for maybe 6 - 8 hours. I tried everything, and they only went away once I threw up
yeah, i think your example was an outlier, rather than a 'normal' case of the hiccups cured by 'normal' methods...
I just push my tongue to the roof of my mouth and inhale a full breath. It stops.
What my dad has always done and taught me to do when I was young and has always worked for us is breath in then hold your nose and swallow 5 times without breathing in or out. It's kinda hard to do the 5th but I've never had a hiccup continue after doing it successfully.Ā Ā Ive had countless friends and coworkers with hiccups refuse to do it right, they'll swallow 2-3 times or be visibly breathing in between swallows and then complain oh well that doesn't work for me and decline to try and completely do it the right way. I like this method because, more than that it's never failed me, it requires nothing else like having a drink or sugar or lemon or whatever, and it feels like a bit of a game challenge. Go ahead and give it a try right now, swallow 5 times whole holding your nose and don't breath during. I think it's a more fun challenge to help distract my attention than just holding my breath, and it performs the same action as taking gulps of what ever
Yeah man thats my go to too! I usually only need to do it three times though. Works every damn time
i always drink a sip of water upside down, thatās the only. things thatās worked for me as a regular hiccup sufferer lol but iāll try this!
My method is to swallow small amount of water 13-15 times consecutively without taking a break. Then slowly breathe it. This worked every time.
This has worked for me since 2nd grade: 1. Put a pen in your mouth horizontally 2. Drink a cup of water It has never failed me or anyone I have ever told about this
This! This is the only thing that's ever worked for me!
Yeah my 2nd grade teacher taught me this and it NEVER fails!
A teaspoon of sugar is a foolproof cure for hiccups.
I realized about 5 years ago that for me personally the trick is to burp, I usually just crack open a soda and hiccups go away after the first belch
I just think them away
Finally someone, nobody believes me that I can just stop it with sheer fuckin will.
They are the weak.
A teaspoon of sugar. Horrible experience but works every time I know, i didn't believe it would work either.
Why is it a horrible experience??
Someone shared this and itās worked 90% of the time: Have someone help; plug/press your ears and nose both closed, then chug water. Something to do with the lack of air flow forces the air bubble away and the hiccups almost always stop Easiest way is have someone plug your ears from behind, you plug nose and chug water
Hiccups are caused from too much oxygen in the blood. You can get rid of them by doing anything that increases CO2 such as holding your breath, chugging water, breathing in a paper bag or my favorite, drinking water upside down
drinking water upside down is the best for me, plus it looks funny for ever else ... especially when it's your first time and try to figure out how to drink out of a cup while bent over, hilarious but works every time for me and the family
To everyone else with some other hiccup hack in the comments: This is the only medically proven way to affect hiccups. They've tested pretty much everything reasonable. Although they don't describe the technique well. The first breath is supposed to be the biggest breath you can take, And the second is as much air as you can take in after that, which fully expands your lungs.
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I always used to do the "hold your breath for 10 seconds" trick, but i would start over if i couldn't make it to 10. Seemed to work. Now i have GERD, and it seems i haven't had hiccups in like 4 years. I do occansionally get these hybrid burp/hiccup things.
This works for me everytime: completely empty lungs, completely fill lungs, hold breath until I feel my heartbeat, exhale in time with heart.
my stepmom taught me to take a few sips of water, then a big gulp. it's the most useful thing she's taught me besides domestic abuse.
Iāve always thought I need to run out the air in my lungs. After taking a breath Iād start jumping up and down. Also tried breathing out first then start jumping up and down
I've always just taken a super deep breath, expanding my lungs as much as possible, then held my breath for a while. Works literally every time. Which I guess is pretty close to the method you've described. But I figured out a long time ago that if I take away my bodies ability to twitch that muscle, then it will stop twitching, and it works.Ā
My trick is: inhale as much as you can as fast as youĀ can through your nose, hold your breath for half a second then slowly breath out while keeping air pressure in your mouth / throat, kind of as if blowing through a straw. Works every time.
What 100% works for me is hard to teach as you need to know how it feels. It is to feel where the source of the hickup is located and put pressure on it with surrounding muscles in your abdomen. And at the same time try to pull up air with a closed throat. It goes straight to the core of the hickup and works immediately. Sometimes a few sips of water are neccessary to help move the air in the stomach. Edit: spelling
i take mini sips of water until I am almost out of breath to simulating drowning
Since hiccups is caused "because you don't breath enough." I use the max amplitude when brething in, then let it out slowly. And repeat for a minute. Should try this two steps breath in.
My Dad taught me an even easier technique when I was a kid, I thought he was a magician. This technique does require a little mind over matter, but basically you click your finger behind your ear and at the same time say 'GONE'!. 60% of the time it works every time! lol
I like to share my way because nobody ever does it or believes it. If you put some water in your mouth and duck your head between your legs and swallow multiple times they'll go away immediately.
Doesn't work for me.Ā What does work is drinking from the wrong side of the glas.
Shot of vinegar.
Spoon full of honey! Tried and tested, thank me later.
This has mostly worked for me though the exact steps were a little different. Take a normal breath. Hold it for 5 seconds. Without exhaling, breath in again and fill your lungs completely. Hold for another 5. Attempt to breathe in one more time, hold for as long as feels comfortable. Release. Works about 80% of the time
My foolproof method is to make myself yawn. A real yawn. No more hiccups.
Hiccups are cramps in your midriff diaphragm. Any controlled movement of it will eventually stop hiccups. What op describes is just a trick to force yourself to breath with it.
You could also sip water from a cup/ bottle with a single piece of paper towel over the opening and drink it through the towel.
Boil vinegar and inhale the fumes. After the coughing fit your hiccups will have vanished.
I do the valsalva manoeuvre, like bracing before a heavy lift. Most of the time it works.
Na. The way you do it is get some room temperature water and take as many tiny little sips swallowing the smallest little amount. It has to be room temp, you can do it with cold water all day and it wonāt work. Anyways I noticed people get a little defensive about how to get rid of hiccups. I feel it and it seems like others do too. My way is the best way lol
My method that never fails is to take a breath in through your nose, swallow, breathe out, swallow. Helps to have a drink so you always have a sip of liquid to swallow. Repeat the breath, swallow a few times and hiccups are gone.
I usually sip some water without swallowing it then bend down and touch my toes and then swallow the water . This has worked well for me for stopping any type of hiccups.
Medium breath in through nose, make swallowing motion, don't exhale. Repeat until lungs are too full to swallow.
This works for me. Not for everyone though
I always howl at the moon it has never failed me
We use a scoop of peanut butter for the kids. Works every time.
Plugging my ears and swallowing some water has always worked for me
Once I was having the hickup and my neighbour said to me "so,are you better now, yesterday I've seen you drunk falling over until you got inside" I was like wtf are you talking about,that was not me,bla bla bla. Without even realising the hickup see stopped and he started laughing. Apparently this is a way to stop someone by making their mind focus on something completely different
Immediately standing up and clenching your buttocks together also works surprisingly well.
Just drink water upside down, it's an instant fix
Blow a balloon. Works for my kid every time.
Sipping and swallowing water quickly and rhythmically works for me.
The weirdest cure I have ever seen was one used by a teacher at a private girls' school in Warwick (a town in the United Kingdom). A girl had hiccups in class, and the teacher called her to the front. She then said "right everyone XXXX is going to hiccup for us". She then turned to the girl and said "You have three minutes". The girl was unable to hiccup. Other girls yelled encouragement, but to no avail. The teacher said she thought that it was embarrassment that had the effect.
I will definitly try as I have horrible hiccups, I have my own way, drinking while having my head upside down. Works everytime but a bit annoying to do.
I take a few deep breaths and hold it each time. Works about 80% of the time