I hate them. I very rarely have them anymore, but I've had to go to the emergency room when I had them for 48 hours in the past. Unrelevting hiccups for that long are miserable and definitely something to be avoided. That episode required medication to finally stop them. Since then I've found that on the rare occasions when I do get hiccups, I can make them go away by starving them of oxygen. I first take a deep breath and hold it as long as possible. Tonight that was 13 hiccups while holding my breath. Then I blow that breath out until there is nothing left to blow out, before drawing in another breath and holding it as I repeat the process. Usually within 2-3 breaths like this the hiccups will go away.
I have found that with me, deep controlled breathing abates the hiccups. But, i become annoyed after only one and cannot imagine 13!!!
I get the hiccup's when I would get drunk as snot followed by a strong craving for waffle house, Shoney's, what-a-burger, taco bell food. I no longer care to drink much panther Wizz.
My wife swears that a 1/2 cup of water covered with a paper towel then drinking through the towel cures'em Worked for the kids and G.kids. I've seen her do it for forty years.
When I was in high school I had the hiccups and a girl friend said, give them to me, so I said take them, and they were gone. I kept expecting them to come back but never did. I have used this method many times and the only time it doesn't work is when people lack the imagination to respond as I did. Words have power.
Geez! She wasn't wearing a pointy hat and parked her broom nearby, did she? "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble..."
NO she actually was Morman. As I said, I've used this means to help others free them self of hiccups.
Damn! If it worked for hiccups maybe it will work for hangovers? We might be onto a billion-dollar industry here!
Sometime hiccups makes you more trouble and tension. Drinking a glass of water will stop hiccups sometimes. I try this simple trick whenever I got hiccups.
I have a remedy that I know will sound nuts but it works for me. Take a cup of water in one hand and place your thumb and forefinger along your jawline to the sides of your trachea. With slow even pressure squeeze inward with your thumb and forefinger. Breathe in very carefully through your nose while sipping a constant small amount of water. After a few seconds of this they should disappear. I know it sounds nuts but it works.
