I don’t have anything great to say about this matter, but I have the hiccups… Holy fuck the hiccups!

    • clif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      How do you endure? I don’t know if I could do that…

      You must be exceedingly strong with a fortitude to rival mountains.

      • RedEye FlightControl@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        It is what it is. I have permanent nerve damage and randomly get bouts of hiccups throughout the day. Sometimes it will be just 2 or 3, sometimes it lasts for a long time. It’s annoying to say the least. But otherwise harmless. They’re the least of my issues so I try to pay them no mind, but they can of course be obtrusive.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    19 hours ago

    A friend of mine told a story about his brother who had a major surgery in his abdomen and HAD to control his chronic hiccups while in recovery or risk opening his wounds or worse. His doctors helped. I don’t even remember all the remedies he mentioned because there were several and the point was that each person can be different so you have to figure out what works for you.

  • tomi000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    I have found a method that works 100% of the time for me. It sounds silly but bear with me. After the hiccup starts, I tell myself “hiccups arent real” or some equivalent phrase, in my inner voice, as convincingly as possible. Like I actually believe it. It stops immediately, before the second hiccup.

    I am spreading this method among friends and family, I would say around a third of them report successes, but Im pretty sure not all of them have tried it seriously and some brush it off as bs.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    Holding my breath works for me, or maybe it just passes the time. Usually goes away in about 2 full breaths.

    • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Yeah. Oxygen deprivation releases the reflex, but you have to hold your breath, so long that it hurts.

      There have actually been studies why that is.

        • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          One of the definitive conditions for ceasing hiccups is CO2 retention in the body, the target of which is around 60 mmHg of CO2 in venous blood. The fight-or-flight response induced by acute hypercapnia can effectively suppress hiccups because their original nature is highly likely to be aberrations in the swallowing reflex, which is associated with the parasympathetic nervous system.

          https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(20)31301-5/fulltext

        • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
          9·
          1 day ago

          Hiccups are actually caused by a microorganism called “hickey” getting into your lungs. When you hold your breath, you flood the organism with carbon dioxide, which kills enough of it that your immune system can handle the rest easily. If you want to read up more about it, Google search “how to remove chest hickeys”

    • Bongles@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I don’t understand what that means. How do you drink from the far side of a glass?

      • shittydwarf@piefed.caEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        You lean over top of the glass, and use your lower lip to control the flow, and swallow in this position

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      It sounds (and presumably looks) stupid but this is the only method that actually works for me.

  • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    My wife gets bad hiccups sometimes. I meanwhile can just control my diaphragm and stop hiccuping on command. She doesn’t seem to find that very fair.

    • video@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Same with my wife… But I just remind her that she is not a fish and she thinks about it for a second and she stops hiccuping.